Senior Project Online Source (2)

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	“Mirror, Mirror”
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	Kate Fox
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	SIRC: Social Issues Research Centre
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	SIRC
Date Page was Last Revised	1997
Date You Read It	2 February 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://www.sirc.org/publik/mirror.html

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

Fox writes that the more “attractive children are more popular” with both their peers and teachers, the “better chance of getting jobs”, being found “guilty less”, and have many more benefits that help to “improve performance”. The problem with appearance starts at a very young age, it is quiet inevitable. (Fox).

Fox accuses the media for letting people become “accustomed to extremely rigid and uniform standards of beauty”. Now that we have more access to things like the television, billboards, magazines, and the internet “we see ‘beautiful people’ all the time, more often than members of our own family” (Fox).

In reality, “Standards of beauty have in fact become harder and harder to attain” especially for women. As a matter of fact, the current thinness for women is only “is achievable by less than 5% of the female population” (Fox).

The way people view themselves in the mirror will differ from “species, sex, age, ethnic group, sexual orientation, mood, eating disorders, what they've been watching on TV, what magazines they read, whether they're married or single, what kind of childhood they had, whether they take part in sports, what phase of the menstrual cycle they're in, whether they are pregnant, where they've been shopping – and even what they had for lunch” (Fox).

Research shows that “women are much more critical of their appearance than men”, men can look into a mirror and either be “please” or “indifferent” with what they see (Fox).

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):

The article is written about the topic of how people view themselves. Fox writes and lists the multiple problems that things like the media have on women. She gives many statistics and scientific research, information, and details to support her topic.

Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?

The Author is Kate Fox who is a contributor to the entire website and the author of this article.

This website contains articles and publications about Social Issues in society.

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?

The article and the author don’t seem to have an emotional attachment, it seems to be written to be informative rather than having the author gain or learn anything. Although the author seems to be more attached to her article than the previous article I’ve read, she still is more informative.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?

I feel like the author is a bit biased and favors the topic that society has a negative effect on the way that women, men, and teenagers think.

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?

The author doesn’t refer to any specific people, but does generalize in most of her references.

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?

I will use this source in my project to aide me in proving my point. I will use the information listed and given to strengthen my opinion.