Monday, February 23, 2009

"un*Spun" - Was Clarence Darrow a Creationist?

This chapter has all to do with checking sources, which sounds like a quite a basic thing to do. All throughout high school, we as students are given guidelines and lists of ways to check our resources for validity. In college we're warned time after time of plagiarism and it's horrifying consequences which could leave our future marred and possibly ruined.

But even if we do check these sources as valid, and as set up by respectable people and organizations, who's to say the people behind the source haven't been tricked in some way? Though it may not effect a grade on a paper, there is then a falsehood which is continuing to be spread via misled sources.

Though "un*Spun" discusses multiple ways of thoroughly checking facts, including scanning for holes in arguments and statements that just don't quite line up with the rest of the text, they stress the fact that information should be repeated in multiple sources in order to relay the most comfort in regarding that fact as true. No matter the amount of academic credentials, information received only from one text has a higher possibility of being "spun" than information that is verified through multiple sources.

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