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Importance of Verifying Content Sources

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Writing and editing, be it dealing with authors looking to publish articles, analyses or even books, need to have their research adequately scrutinised at the editing stage in order to produce compelling work and arguments that can stand the test of time and be considered credible contributions to a given a field. This is where editors can potentially do the best service to a given project, by thoroughly verifying the primary sources and making sure that they maximally support a given writer/author's central claim/thesis.

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A brief discussion on the importance of editors focussing on properly verifying content sources in order to better support writers in making compelling arguments across a range of fields and publishing mediums.

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Within the broader scope of professional writing, especially when it comes to editing, sometimes, fact checking and verifying of references can become a central focus and service to the client in question. This is even more important when dealing with topics pertaining to medicine, technology and the general sciences.

As such, those aspiring to become editors in these areas should be well versed with research methods and the ability to accurately scrutinise sources while also being able to verify primary sources behind certain coverage of developments of claims. A good example of this, given the global climate of 2020 and 2021, would be ...

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