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Q 1. Pick a subject to research in either Academic Search Premier or ProQuest Direct--on any topic. This does not have to be literary. 2. Find an example of a good source for your topic. 3. Then use a "regular" search engine of your choice (Google, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) and find an example of a bad source for the same topic. 4. Finally, using criteria from "Identifying Fake News," explain what criteria you used to determine the legitimacy of each source. How and why do you consider your good example a good source and your bad example of the same topic a bad source? DUE DATE: Submit both examples (the "good" and the "bad") and your critique reasoning by midnight, Sunday, Feb. 3.

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A lot of things can be noticed in the two sources mentioned above which made me choose which one is good and which one is not. The first thing that one should notice in a source is the name of the author. In the first source the name of the authors are mentioned along with their qualification and other details which make this a credible source. For the second source no such thing is there. There are information in the second source also but reliability is zero without the name of the writer. The first source was published in a scholarly peer-reviewed journal which confirms that the information provided in that is absolutely genuine. This is simply not the case for the second source and the information provided can be fake or false also.