It’s easy to believe a source credible when what is says conforms to your beliefs, but confirmation bias is dangerous. I’ve been taught that we all have bias, and the truth can only be shared/found if we transparently admit our…
Fake News and climate change: an object lesson
I scaned a page from my son’s National Geographic April 2017 about Fake News and how to spot it thought I need to rescan. I notice in the 2 biased examples I had students analyze, many were sucked in to…
Academics getting political
Scientists react to political climate by running for office (CSM). Professor Smith Goes to Washington (The Atlantic). Registering professors with liberal bias (Inside Higher Ed). In my experience, faculty (or academics) are clever but independent. Organizing them can be like herding cats, but…
Evaluating sources: Bias in the news
Fight Fake news. Know who is reputable. imgur.com/gallery/iPLkz#kP4Yax1 – This is accurate.
Evaluating sources – real vs fake (good vs crap/ craap)
Special thanks to Jessica Tipton from the JCCC Library who compiled support matrial below and shared it with me when I told her of my desire to do a better job teaching students how to evaluate sources. ProQuest Research Companion…
Sources Matter
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Notes to Students on citing sources: FA 2016
How to Cite a TED Talk in MLA Format Cite it as a lecture. Here is an example. Smith, John. “The Power of Baloney.” TED. Feb. 2012. Lecture. . Where to find 2016 edition of the MLA…
Teaching Performance Self-exam
I’ve been reading a book used in many college business classes and based on by Stanford Business Professor Robert Sutton, PhD , called The No Asshole Rule. He developed the book from apopular article he wrote for The Harvard Business…
How to Cite Block Quotes
I’ve written about how to cite block quotes in MLA format before and noted how the Purdue OWL gets this wrong. As demonstrated in the NFGW (our comp 1 text) and in the MLA Handbook: 7th ed (the newest edition in the…
How to use the handbook to figure out how to cite the Fish article.
What information do we include and how do we figure it out? First go to the free online MLA handbook and look at its table of contents. We know it is an online newspaper (New York Times), so we find where…