You work in a small office of fewer than 20 employees that has no dedicated IT staff. As the resident technical expert you are called on to deal with computer issues and technology-related decisions. Lately this has been taking up more of your time and you feel that it is no longer an efficient arrangement. You speak to your boss about contracting with an IT company to oversee these needs, and she tells you to research some options.
-You find a website with some interesting information about your topic, and the author is a well-known expert in the field. There is some useful data, for which the author has taken care to provide citations. There are also some promising looking links, but when you try to click through, they are broken. You find that the page was last updated almost a year ago. How will you evaluate this source?
A) This source should be cited in your report, as it amply meets all 3 A's.
B) This source has some accuracy issues so it should not be cited.
C) This source is not very recent, but given the nature of your research it is acceptable.
D) This source fares well as to authorship and accuracy, but it is not current enough to be cited for a technology project.
E) This source is problematic regarding all 3 "A"s.

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D) This is a technology project, so the material needs to be very current. Broken links are a tip-off that the page is outdated, and this is confirmed by the last-updated date. The author is well-known, and citations for the data indicate an accurate source.

You Work in a Small Office of Fewer Than 20