This book examines the real fake news: the constant flow of purposefully crafted, sensational, emotionally charged, misleading or totally fabricated information that mimics the form of mainstream news.
Examples of fake news are likely to appear in articles, books, and videos available through the University Library. However, some internet fact-checkers will be helpful.
A fact checker with a rich database of ratings for over 4000 media sites. Each with political bias ratings as well as categories for "Conspiracy Pseudoscience" and "Questionable Sources". These could be excellent for doing you own fact-checking research.
Student Research and Report Writing is a user-friendly and practical research guidebook for students-undergraduate and postgraduate-in any social sciences discipline who are carrying out research and/or writing a thesis.
Starting from the common difficulties students face, it gives practical examples of all the stages necessary to produce a good piece of academic work: • interpreting assignment topics • drawing on your own experience and background • reading analytically and [more].
Equal parts research manual, study guide, and introduction to the study of history, this book teaches readers how to write excellent historical prose with approachable strategies and actionable tips.