Fact-checking Instructions, Draft Version to Improve
1 You can check facts on the Internet by using a web browser. 2 The Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a reliable place 3 to check facts in specific subject areas 4 (such as biology and economics). 5 LII is organized in layers by topic, 6 from general to more and more specific. 7 Starting the web browser (such as Internet Explorer) 8 on your computer is the first step. 9 10 Requesting the LII website requires typing lii.org into the 11 Address or Location field near the top of the browser window. 12 Then you can select (click on) the topic or subtopic on which 13 you want more information from the list on LII's home page. 14 Don't forget to press ENTER (or RETURN) after you type lii.org. 15 If your browser window is short, you must scroll down 16 to see the full list of topics covered. 17 18 The alphabetical list of topics on the LII home page contains 19 a heading called Health. 20 Select (click on) the Diseases and Conditions subheading 21 under Health and when additional subtopics appear in the 22 left-hand column, 23 select Infectious Diseases from the new subtopics. 24 Select Foodborne Diseases from the list of 25 fifty diseases that appears in response to your 26 picking More subtopics from the short list of subheads 27 under the Infectious Diseases topic revealed above. 28 This could be very relevant information. 29 Under Foodborne Diseases are one-paragraph 30 descriptions of 12 websites covering different pathogens. 31 The fifth one is called 32 CDC: Escherichia coli O157:H7 33 and you can click on its title to retrieve biological 34 and medical details on E. coli. 35 36 Use the LII search engine instead of the topic headings 37 to find inflation-rate information, since its place 38 among the topics is not obvious. 39 If you wish you can type the term inflation rate 40 into the field marked "Search entire collection for" 41 found just under the banner on the LII home page. 42 It is strongly suggested that you do not surround 43 your search term with quotation marks, because the 44 LII search engine always returns zero hits for 45 quoted terms. 46 Select the proper website from the list of three returned. 47 Select the first choice there, called "Five ways to 48 compare the worth of a United States dollar." 49 Click in the Submit Query button, but 50 before that type the target year, original year, 51 and amount into the conversion form.