Prep
- Michael A. Caulfield, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers (2017), Part I (‘Four Strategies and a Habit’); Part II (‘Look for Previous Work’), Sections 1 (‘How to Use Previous Work’), 2 (‘Fact-Checking Sites’), 3 (‘Wikipedia’); Part III, Section 1 (‘Going Upstream to Find the Source’); Part IV (‘Reading Laterally’), Sections 1 (‘What Reading Laterally Means’), 18 (‘Basic Techniques: Web Domains, WHOIS’); 20 (‘Stupid Journal Tricks’); 21 (‘Finding a Journal’s Impact Factor’); 22 (‘Using Google Scholar to Evaluate Author Expertise’), 23 (‘How to Think About Research’), 25 (‘Choosing Your Experts First’), 26 (‘Evaluating News Sources’), 27 (‘National Newspapers of Record’)
- Joel Best, ‘Telling the Truth About Damned Lies and Statistics’, The Chronicle of Higher Education(4 May 2001). Note: You can just skim this one.
In Class
- Introduction to Hypothes.is
- Q&A: Four Strategies and a Habit
- ‘Activity: Find Top Authorities for a Subject’
- BREAK (12:45)
- ‘Facts are not given. They have to be taken’: Best (2001) Q&A
- Low-Stakes Writing Assignment: What Are Your Goals for the Course?
- On Reading [Time Permitting]
- For Next Time
For Next Time
- ‘Sociology and the Sociological Perspective’, Sections 1.1 (‘The Sociological Perspective’), 1.2 (‘Understanding Society’), and 1.3 (‘Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology’)
- Karl Marx, Thesis XI of ‘Theses on Feuerbach’
- Max Weber, ‘The Case for Value-Free Sociology’, excerpted from ‘Politik als Beruf’(1920)
- Joel Best, ‘Telling the Truth About Damned Lies and Statistics’, The Chronicle of Higher Education(4 May 2001). Note: You can just skim this one.
