Senior Project Online Source (3)

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	“Running Head: SOCIETY’S EFFECTS ON WOMEN’S BODY IMAGE”
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	Ashley Grebe
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	Digital Commons @ Cal Poly
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	Bepress
Date Page was Last Revised	Winter 2010
Date You Read It	2 February 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=socssp http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/seniorprojects/

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

Companies use many mediums which “manipulate women such as advertising, products being sold on the market and clothing” (Grebes).

Women all around the world “are being manipulated, molded and shaped by this type of mass media” and are also “taught from very early on in their pre-teen years, what is important and valuable as a woman” (Grebes).

Americans are exposed to and “bombarded” by advertisements daily, “according to Jean Kilbourne, Americans are exposed to 3000 advertisements per day”. (Grebes)

Magazines tend to appeal the topic of weight loss and being skinny towards women, “according to one study, women's magazines have 10.5 more ads and articles promoting weight loss than do men's magazines” (Grebes).

The television “perpetuates this mass media driven phenomenon”. Many of the female characters in movies and television shows have also become “noticeably smaller in body size during the last half a century”. Matter of fact, “evidence shows that women who are below average in weight are overrepresented, while overweight women are underrepresented” (Grebe).

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

The research paper is written by Ashley Grebe who covers the topic of society’s effect on teenage girls. She covers a broad area of the topic with the use of statistics and references to previous or other people. Grebes gives her own opinions of the topic as well as different statistics or opinions given from others.

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 writer is Ashley Grebe, she is a small contributor to the website.

This website contains essays from multiple college students and about their senior project topics.

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 writer of the essay is being informative about the topic and it seems like she’s gained a bit of knowledge about the topic because of the way she brings up all these statistics.

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

I don’t really detect a biased opinion from the author, she’s simply stating facts.

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

The author cites many different credible sources and includes bibliographies at the end of the entire essay, they add to the credibility of her topic.

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

I will use this source for the statistics given and the multiple charts, I will be able to use the charts she’s given me to prove my opinion and my topic.