Step 2: Examine the Source

Open the source's Web page in a Web browser.

Look at the page and study the "ideas" on the page that the user is to be alerted about.

Be prepared to answer the following questions: Are the ideas textual or graphic? If textual, what is the organization of the ideas -- sentence, paragraph, or another unit? If graphic, what type of images are they?

Proceed to step 3.