Question

A student is writing an informative essay about the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA). How would FEMA’s website differ from an outside source? The FEMA website would be more likely to have accurate information than an outside source. The FEMA website would be more likely to include secondhand information than an outside source. The FEMA website would be more likely to have information that would need to be verified than an outside source. The FEMA website would be more likely to report negative information about the agency than an outside source.

Answer 1

The FEMA website would be more likely to have accurate information than an outside source.

The FEMA website, being a government source, would report their data and information and accurately as possible.

Outside sources regarding FEMA would contain bias, personal experience, and potentially slanted data. FEMA could have misrepresented data but they answer to the government and the people of the country, whereas outside sources answer to an organization or business. Outside sources would need to be corroborated to verify the information. Though all sources should be verified and corroborated, typically government sources are most accurate.

Answer 2

The FEMA website would be more likely to have accurate information than an outside source.