Wikinews:Education/core/Improve research skills 2


 * 1) 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.
 * 2) Learning best practices and rules for evaluating different source materials.
 * 3) Assessing an existing article against a list of criteria including verifiability, presenting the most important information first and writing neutrally.