For Wednesday, 9/2

Prep

• C. Wright Mills, ‘The Promise’ (1959)

In Class

1. New Students?
2. Texttbook Orders
3. Review of the HW: How to Properly Submit Your Assignment
4. Overview of the Syllabus
5. Introduction: Ten Core Themes
6. Review of the Final Exam
   1. Other Major Assignments: Brief Introduction
7. Keywords: Sociological Imagination, the

For Next Time

• Michael A. Caulfield, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers (2017), Part I (‘Four Strategies and a Habit’); Part II (‘Look for Previous Work’), Chs. 4 (‘How to Use Previous Work’), 5 (‘Fact-Checking Sites’), 6 (‘Wikipedia’); Part III, Ch. 7 (‘Going Upstream to Find the Source’); Part IV (‘Reading Laterally’), Chs. 16 (‘What Reading Laterally Means’), 17 (‘Evaluating a Website or Publication’s Authority’), 18 (‘Basic Techniques: Domain Searches, 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’), 24 (‘Finding High Quality Secondary Sources’), 25 (‘Choosing Your Experts First’), 26 (‘Evaluating News Sources’), 27 (‘What Makes a Trustworthy News Source?’), 28 (‘National Newspapers of Record’); Part V (‘Field Guide’), Chs. 42 (‘Avoiding Confirmation Bias in Searches’), 44 (‘Finding Old Newspaper Articles’), and 45 (‘Using the Facebook Live Map to Find Breaking Coverage’)