The Chicago guide to fact-checking

Fact-Checking

Borel, B. (2016). The Chicago guide to fact-checking. Retrieved from http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1043503275.

Description: This Chicago guide offers tools and best practices for fact checking across multiple forms of media.

Why I trust it: This guide was published by the same company that publishes the Chicago Manual of Style, and it draws on the expertise of over 200 professional writers, editors, and fact-checkers. The book’s editor, Brooke Borel, is a former research editor at Science Illustrated and a former fact checker at Quanta. She also teaches science communication workshops at New York University.

Use: Use this manual to beef up your web fact-checking skills. You’ll find numerous strategies to fact-check across multiple forms of media. You’ll also find, at the end of the book, 20 full pages of references organized by chapter.

Access: This title is accessible in-library through the University at Albany Libraries reference collection under call number ZA3075 .B67 2016. You can also request this title through the New York Public Libr

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