Thursday, April 21, 2016

What constitutes a credible source?

Any Individuals can create personal sites or blogs to write about their families, friends, work, or any other subject. The corporate company can make websites to promote their products, and publish websites to promote their cause. Anyone with an idea and Internet access can create a website and fill it with just about any content they want. In this digital world of media, the web has becoming a first priority for the media to outreach the audience, anyone can put any information on the web, and sometimes information looks more credible at the first glance than it is on closer inspection. What constitutes a credible source is actually by looking for all these factors like authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency. Credible authors will cite their sources so that readers can check the accuracy of and support for what they've written. Regardless of what type of sources they are, they must be credible. In other words, they must be reliable, accurate, and trustworthy. Then, the news or article will show proof-read with fair and balance to the reader. To determine a credible source, their name should be listed on the home page of their website, date of the information, and source contact information. All these factors could boost the source credibility and reliability to article or news being publish. However, a named source is always preferable to an unnamed source. It should never deliberately mislead when sourcing a person, or cite the sources in the plural when only have on.

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