{"id":3403,"date":"2025-06-24T23:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T23:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skilledprofessors.com\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2025-06-24T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T23:21:23","slug":"fact-check-essay-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/fact-check-essay-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check Essay Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prof. Ingalsbe&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Min. Word Count: 1000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Min. Source Count: 1 news or opinion article + 2 other credible (scholarly or non-commercial) sources to confirm or refute its claims<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select an online article (primary text) related to current events or issues in the world and conduct background research on its information and claims.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use at least two relevant, credible sources (supporting texts) to confirm, refute, or complicate the claims of your primary text.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your primary text can be a news, opinion, or feature article from any online source, if it discusses a current issue.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your two supporting texts must meet high standards for credibility, relevance, currency, and accuracy &#8211; they should be scholarly, peer-reviewed articles or come from a reputable organization or government source.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You will need to adequately justify why your two supporting sources qualify as being solidly credible.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your essay must clearly assert an assessment of your primary text\u2019s credibility, accuracy, purpose, and bias, based on what you find in the supporting texts, and cross-reference specific examples as evidence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Grading Criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You summarize each source accurately and effectively, and explain and justify each individual source\u2019s credibility\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You explain how the supporting texts confirm, refute, or complicate the claims and characterization in the primary text, using at least 2 cross-references\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You assert a clear assessment of the credibility, accuracy, purpose, and bias of the primary text. This message is prominent and consistent throughout the essay.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your essay is well-organized and free from citation, grammar, and other technical errors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Ingalsbe&nbsp; Min. Word Count: 1000 Min. Source Count: 1 news or opinion article + 2 other credible (scholarly or non-commercial) sources to confirm or refute its claims Prompt: Grading Criteria:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}