Hi everyone! This week's reading reminded me of my Junior year of high school, when my AP US History teacher focused many of his lessons on Civic Online Reasoning. One day a video production crew came to our class to record a lesson he taught on online civic reasoning, which is published online, and linked to the right (myself briefly featured) which I think directly relates to the content in this week's reading on working with the world wide web in search of credibility. Re-watching the video was pretty nostalgic for me, as junior year was the last in-person learning experience I had before Covid-19 and online learning. However, back to the point, his lesson focused on lateral reading, as as mentioned in Carillo and Horning's Effectively and Efficiently Reading the Credibility of Online Sources, as a tool to assist in corroborating between online sources in order to ensure reliability. The article defines lateral learning as "leaving the source and moving to other sources across the Web to assess the source’s credibility" (4). Civic online reasoning focuses on evaluating information on the internet, and corroborating, also thought of as fact checking, or confirming, that other sources agree with a claim found on one source on the internet.

Furthermore, something valuable I gained from this week's reading was the breakdown of the relationship between primary and secondary sources, and their symbiotic relationship in a research paper. The article illustrates how "Going to a primary source [...] allow[s] you to recognize bias in the secondary sources you locate, which is important to judging the credibility of a source" (6). Primary sources are void of bias that secondary sources could provide, and by identifying a primary source first, bias in the secondary source is easier to see. Secondary sources without bias, however, confirm the findings of primary sources, which creates a very reliable source of information for a research paper. Both types of sources mutually benefit each other, and the general credibility of the sources in a research paper.