| Welcome! You have come from the Ruben Cirillo High
School Library Website to see your tax dollars at work! You were expecting to find what they described as a "ridiculously bad" website. Instead, you have information about the numerous mistakes the Cirillo High School Library made on their own website. Hmm...maybe you are finding information about a ridiculously bad website afterall—The Cirillo High School Library website! You'll have to decide just like you'll have to decide if your tax money is being wasted. LET'S SEE WHAT MAKES ME THINK MISTAKES WERE MADE: As a matter of fact, the Cirillo High School Library site from which you have been referred, contains what we believe are no fewer than SEVEN (and maybe eight) rather glaring mistakes on the first page! They include: 1.) The 2nd sentence is missing punctuation! 2.) Usefulness is misspelled. It is not spelled "usefullness" as you did. 3.) The 4th sentence HAS punctuation but it is not a complete sentence! "Web Evaluation Tutorial from Vaughan Library, Acadia University." [sic] 4.) The em dash in sentence 6 and other places does not appear to be correct. It is called an em dash because it is the width of the letter M in type. Your symbol looks like this: "Remember – a web page" when I think it should look like this: "Remember—a web page." I will accept that this could be a quirk of your font or system. 5.) Sentence 11 is an English teacher's biggest irritation. It is another sentence fragment. 6.) The word submit is misspelled as sumit. [sic] Sumit is not a word. 7.) Part 4 has this sentence: "Fill out and sumit this form 12th Grade Web Evaluation Project" [sic] In addition to the spelling embarrassment, the sentence is missing the colon and period. 8.) After the 2nd sentence in red, there is no proper punctuation. The symbol :-) is not recognized anywhere as a form of punctuation! And finally, we believe their own rules designate their site as unacceptable even without the spelling, punctuation and sentence structure problems. BY MY UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR OWN RULES THEY GET THE FOLLOWING RATING: 1.) BECAUSE THEIR SITE IS 1 PAGE OR LESS, THEY GET 1 PT OUT OF 5. 2.) WE WILL GIVE THEM 3 PTS ON RELIABILITY ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE A SCHOOL. 3.) THERE IS NO AUTHOR LISTED. THEIR RULES MANDATE 0 PTS. OUT OF 5. 4.) BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A DATE LISTED, THEIR RULES DEMAND 0 PTS. THEIR TOTAL IS 4 OUT OF A POSSIBLE 20 points. THEIR SITE SAYS: "Sites scoring less than 16 points are unacceptable—find a better web site!" We are further amused to note that at least one other Upstate New York high school copied this site and apparently used the program. They even added a few misspelled words beyond Cirillo's efforts. This school misspelled beneficial (as benefical) and nurture (as nuture). They have since taken down the website information. |