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Fact Checking Made Easy
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Description: Thoroughly revised in September 2021!If you’re a blogger, author or online publisher looking for a competitive edge, consider reliability and accuracy. It takes just a little bit of consistent effort to achieve writing that readers can enjoy and fans recommend without hesitation, because you’ve cleared it of careless bloopers and mortifying blunders. With a simple fact checking routine, you’re elevated to a higher echelon of writers. Instructor Marcia Yudkin has been a published author for more than 30 years. She has written for national magazines like the New York Times Magazine, Ladies Home Journal and TWA Ambassador, for big-name publishers like HarperCollins and Penguin and for National Public Radio. She created the course because she witnessed how humiliating it can be when readers and important industry contacts catch a blogger or author making dumb mistakes, like putting Sydney in Austria rather than Australia or mixing up sudoku (the number game) and seppuku (ritual suicide). “Fact Checking Made Easy” consists of 13 practical lessons totaling more than an hour and a half of video instruction. At its heart are three complete now-you-try-it exercises (and another partial one) where you give fact checking a go and then compare your findings with Marcia’s answers and analysis. It’s hand-on learning at its best. Besides the video lessons and exercises, you have access to full written transcripts of the lessons, along with several handouts that make the learning process more convenient. Among the points you learn in this course: * How to create a fact-checking routine that catches errors and inconsistencies * Where and how to check various kinds of facts - including an amazingly helpful, taxpayer-funded free research resource * The difference between opinions that don’t warrant a f
Category: Marketing > Content Marketing > Blogging
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Price: 34.99
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Source: Impact
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