The Mayo Clinic wrote a webpage devoted sole to the study of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). From the first paragraph, readers can begin to understand the differences between the symptoms of ADHD in children and adults and the difference in treatments and lifestyles. Next, Mayo Clinic discusses what ADHD is and what constitutes normal adult behavior. The Mayo Clinic also notes some of the complications adults with ADHD will face. Mayo Clinic mentions the hardships one with ADHD might have in a job setting, in school setting, or in a relationship. Multiple websites discuss adult ADHD, but some of them are more reliable than others. Mayo Clinic makes a reliable webpage by using authority, accuracy, currency, and objectivity
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At the bottom of the webpage, readers find the author, Mayo Clinic Staff. After clicking the link and looking through the list of the editors, only one editor, Dr. Daniel Hall-Flavin, is listed under the mental health. Dr. Hall-Flavin was a medical director for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence for thirteen years (Mayo, 2018, para. 2). Because he has had experience dealing with mental health, he is qualified to write a webpage about adult ADHD. Not only are the editors of Mayo Clinic all doctors, but Mayo Clinic is a well-established hospital that has multiple different sites in the Phoenix-metro area. Since Mayo Clinic is a hospital and the people who edit the website are doctors, it has the authority to write about a difficult mental disorder like …show more content…
However, Mayo Clinic’s webpage was published on August 15, 2017. With this knowledge, the reader can feel like the information is correct and based on new scientific ideas, observations and research. If the webpage contains dead links and has not been updated in a while, then the reader would more than likely not trust the information on that webpage and look for a more scholarly and updated source. Although the date is easily overlooked, one doing a report on scientific information needs to know the date the observations were made so he or she can decide whether to keep that resource or to disregard the information as
At the bottom of the webpage, readers find the author, Mayo Clinic Staff. After clicking the link and looking through the list of the editors, only one editor, Dr. Daniel Hall-Flavin, is listed under the mental health. Dr. Hall-Flavin was a medical director for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence for thirteen years (Mayo, 2018, para. 2). Because he has had experience dealing with mental health, he is qualified to write a webpage about adult ADHD. Not only are the editors of Mayo Clinic all doctors, but Mayo Clinic is a well-established hospital that has multiple different sites in the Phoenix-metro area. Since Mayo Clinic is a hospital and the people who edit the website are doctors, it has the authority to write about a difficult mental disorder like …show more content…
However, Mayo Clinic’s webpage was published on August 15, 2017. With this knowledge, the reader can feel like the information is correct and based on new scientific ideas, observations and research. If the webpage contains dead links and has not been updated in a while, then the reader would more than likely not trust the information on that webpage and look for a more scholarly and updated source. Although the date is easily overlooked, one doing a report on scientific information needs to know the date the observations were made so he or she can decide whether to keep that resource or to disregard the information as