Definitions
Developing Supporting Material
Locating Supporting Material
Finding Credible Sources on the Internet
More Definitions
100
Data that is presented in an understandable context.
What is information?
100
Building blocks that give substance to your speech points
What is supporting material?
100
Firsthand accounts and direct evidence.
What are primary sources?
100
Large portion of the web that general search engines can't access because the information is licensed or fee-based.
What is the deep web?
100
Single illustration of a point.
What is a brief example?
200
Information represented in such a way as to provoke a desired response.
What is propaganda?
200
Illustrate, describe, or represent things
What are examples?
200
Analysis or commentary about things not directly observed or created
What is secondary sources?
200
Used to check the factual accuracy of information offered by key political players and major journalistic outlets.
What is a Watchdog site?
200
Multifaceted illustrations of ideas, items, or events.
What are extended examples?
300
Refers to something not true.
What is misinformation?
300
Firsthand findings, eyewitness accounts, and people's opinions.
What are testimonies?
300
Books, newspapers, and periodicals.
What are secondary sources?
300
Some listings appear because an advertiser has paid to put it there.
What is a commercial factor?
300
Something that could happen in the future.
What is a hypothetical example?
400
A deliberate falsification of information.
What is disinformation?
400
Quantified evidence that summarizes, compares, and predicts things.
What are statistics?
400
Diary, pictures, and surveys.
What are primary sources?
400
Search engines that compile their own databases
What are general search engines?
400
Story about a moral or religious lesson.
What is a parable?
500
Purpose is to instill a certain attitude to encourage you to think a certain way.
What is propaganda?
500
Selectively presenting stats that supports your point of view while ignoring competing data.
What is cherry-picking?
500
Regularly published journal or magazine.
What is a periodical?
500
Search engines that allow narrower but deeper searches.
What are specialized search engines?
500
Testimony from a non expert that gives firsthand information.
What is a lay testimony?
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