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Why is it important to use the strategy of lateral reading?

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It helps you determine an authors credibility and other stuff
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Lateral reading helps you determine an author's credibility, intent and biases by searching for articles on the same topic by other writers (to see how they are covering it) and for other articles by the author you're checking on

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