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AssignmentMultiple Select

Media Literacy: Lateral Reading

Question 1 • {MDVA} Civics and Citizenship [Semester Only]

Which steps are part of reading laterally? Choose three correct answers.conducting research about an original sourcereturning to an original source and evaluating it with new knowledgewriting a letter to the source to ask specific questionsmaking an educated guess about the source’s credibility from its URL domainconsidering outside perspectives on an original source

Answer
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conducting research about an original source
B
returning to an original source and evaluating it with new knowledge
C
writing a letter to the source to ask specific questions
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making an educated guess about the source’s credibility from its URL domain
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considering outside perspectives on an original source

Explanation

Lateral reading means leaving a source to research who created it and what independent sources say about it. After gathering that context, you return to the original source and evaluate it using what you learned. So conducting research about the source, returning to reassess it, and considering outside perspectives are part of the process. A URL domain alone is not enough to judge credibility, and writing the source a letter is not a typical step.

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