Wikinews:Education/Improve research skills 2
Wikinews Training
Classroom
Students improve critical thinking and research skills by…
- Applying critical analysis to news sources to determine what facts they provide, what opinions they share, how well they cover a topic, how much of it duplicates other news sources. Then determining the extent to which the source should be and how it should be used in writing a news story.
- Learning best practices and rules for evaluating different source materials.
- Assessing an existing article against a list of criteria including verifiability, presenting the most important information first and writing neutrally.
