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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- (Note: Once class starts at 1:50, you can move other people’s things if they’re not here on time.)
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- Homework: Find (and read) an English article from a site you don’t normally use about a topic you’re not very familiar with.
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- Share your article with your partner and discuss these questions about it:
- What does the source (website) focus on? How can you tell?
- - Does the title of the site tell you?
- - What other articles does the site have?
- Who is the intended audience? How do you know?
- - What knowledge is the reader assumed to already have?
- - How much technical vocabulary or jargon is there?
- - Who has commented on the article?
- - Is there a political or ideological bias in the article?
- How reliable/credible do you think the article is? Why?
- - Are you familiar with the site where you found the article? What’s its reputation?
- - What is the source of their information?
- - Who is quoted in the article?
- - Are there links to more detailed information?
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- layperson/laypeople = “everyday” people, not specific experts in the field in question
- red flag = a “warning” signal that something is bad (You can have red flags for reliability in a story, which make you think it’s perhaps not very reliable.)
- aggregator = a site that collects news stories from a variety of different sources (It can be harder to check the reliability in this case)
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- https://www.snopes.com/ - general fact-check website, especially for viral stories
- https://www.politifact.com/ - fact-check for US political stories
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- Homework: stop saying “next next week”, start saying “the week after next” or “in two weeks”
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