10 Tips for Telling if an Article Contains Reliable Information

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Bad content floods the web. It’s so bad that schools are giving out guidelines for sites to avoid when collecting information for reports. Many writers also use the web to research information, but how can we know if it’s someone else’s unreliable content rewritten ten times, or if it’s a realistic investigation or expose? Perhaps these tips can help: 1. The article contains verifiable and checkable facts Speculation isn’t fact, it’s speculation. Magazines and reputable websites have fact checkers on hand to check sources and content. Every important bit of information needs back up. If there is no basis for [Read more…]

Are You Writing or Rewriting? Research Tips for Freelance Writers

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When I was in grade school and our teacher assigned a research paper, my friends and I walked the two blocks to the local library for information. Most of the time our research consisted of copying text from the encyclopedia. My parents weren’t always around in the evenings and it was very rare for someone to check my homework word for word, mostly they asked if it was done. One day, my father read one of my reports and took issue. “Do you realize you’re copying, not writing?” Um..yeah. “Is that wrong,” I asked? My father, who was a librarian [Read more…]

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