Key topics: Source credibility and bias: identifying perspective, stake, and potential limitations, Distinguishing primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, Evaluating evidence quality: specificity, recency, representativeness, Revising thesis claims to account for contradictory or complicating information, Synthesis source selection: choosing which of 6 sources best supports a specific claim, Recognizing logical fallacies: hasty generalization, false dichotomy, ad hominem, slippery slope.
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