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    news and unreliable sources online. The term “fake news,” as President Trump believes, is any story that damages the reputation of a certain group, but the most commonly used definition of fake news is any report or article based on lies. As for unreliable sources, these are sources that cannot be trusted because the authors do not have the through knowledge or credentials to discuss the topic they are writing about. The main difference between fake news and unreliable sources is that fake news is

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    Some people have the view that British generals like Haig were incompetent leaders. How far does the sources support or contradict this interpretation? Some people have the view that British generals such as Haig were useless leaders. Famous sources like ‘O What a lovely War’, ‘Blackadder’ and ‘The Trench’ support this. However from the 1980s many military historians have challenged this interpretation and states that under Haigs leadership, Britain and her allies won the war from encouraging new

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    Article No.: 4 Credibility of the author: The author of this source is Chloe Kennedy, a regarded journalist with over 650 articles written spanning over 16 years. Within this vast experience, she has worked for numerous publications, with the City Messenger, the Leader Messenger, The Advertiser, the News Review Messenger and the Standard Messenger being some of the few. Being so widely read, it is likely that this will increase the reliability of her work; mistakes are less likely where a reputation

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    1. Introduction Information has a significant role in the world we currently live in whether in physical form or electronic form. In similar terms, libraries and internet has come into existence with the purpose of providing people with information. Library defines a collection of information for the purpose of reading, viewing, listening, study or reference (Allen, 2000) whereas internet is defined as a huge connection of networks worldwide (Allen, 2000). The purpose of the research is to discuss

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    significantly by helping me feel better prepared and giving me groundwork for starting my research paper. One habit of mine that changed when it comes to researching involves finding appropriate sources. In prior papers, before taking Writing 39C, I used sources I was uncertain were considered reliable sources which hindered my credibility as a writer. Fortunately, through the workshop/lecture my peers and I got to participate in, while we were in the process of writing

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    copying certain sources as a manner of getting work done quicker and with strong recognition. It is considered human nature for students in the modern day to turn to readily available sources to aid their work. However, they do not understand the concept of plagiarism and why it is considered wrong in the educational world. To build upon this essay, we need to first understand what plagiarism exactly is. Plagiarism is well-defined as making use of the language and viewpoints of another source as an individual

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    A source is the place or resource in which knowledge has been obtained. When looking for sources to use in a research paper you need to be able to determine whether or not a source is reliable and credible. It is important to use reliable and credible sources so that the information you use in a document you are writing is accurate and will not affect you in a negative way, by either getting a bad grade in school or just looking unintelligent to a colleague. A credible source is a source of good

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    relations area of study also becomes apparent when authors of scholarly journals and public websites debate over fundamental issues of the aforementioned subject, such as the different rules for engagement and fighting overseas. When hunting for sources for this project, I found that the community of experts commonly

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    UNIT:2 P4 P4: Describe sources of internal and external finance for a selected business. Introduction: In this particular task of the unit I will describe the internal and external finance sources for a particular selected business. In this task I will use the same company as I did before in the previous part of the unit. The name of the company is : Media Markt. In this task we will get to know where money actually comes from to actually create such a big company which is well known of its

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    different believes and ideas about Wikipedia, therefore, some tend to think of it as a credible and valid source of information, others strongly disagree. “Since all the books and articles have been chosen for publication, each one has presumably undergone some form of selection and review” (Spatt, 2011, “p.”339-340). Unfortunately, this statement is simply not enough to

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