I frequently run news sources through Media Bias Fact-Check as a "background check" on most news publications I stumble across. This resource was especially useful when I was working on the Fact Checking assignment. Sometimes it's fairly easy to notice conspiratorial and click-baiting content (such as the scenario with the faux meat article), but not always. When biases and a source's interests are unclear, MBFC helps me decide if I should keep reading or drop the source all together.

Finding an answer to these three questions before I set off to do research has made it easier for me to avoid wasting time on rabbit holes. Even if I'm just scrawling out bulleted terms and loose concepts, it's proven to be helpful in redirecting myself when I stray from the true goals of any given information search.

I'm just marking this typo for review later in the semester!

I'm once again highlighting the precursory sentence to the instructions, lest the entire page be marked up. At last, I will not be as daunted by the towering shelves of Steely Library.

To avoid highlighting this entire page, I shall leave my comment here. This may be the first time it's been plainly laid out to me how citations are used to trace sources. Throughout our schooling in K-12, it was drilled into my head how important citations are and how to write them. Perhaps I simply have a goldfish brain, but this chapter finally made the process of actually using citations "click" in my head.