Verifying a source’s author, publisher, and sponsor is an example of checking the source’s:

select all that apply.

bias
reliability
timeliness
none of the above

The correct answers would be option A and B, Bias and Reliability.

Explanation:

Reliability is the trustworthiness of a person or source or anything. Suppose if a person is trustworthy, he is said to be a reliable person. Similarly, if there is a book and someone wants to check and verify the author, publisher and sponsor, it is said to be checking the reliability of that Source. Similarly, a source's author, publisher and sponsor are also checked to verify if there is biases involved. Verifying such aspects like author, publisher, sponsor, etc, would count in the category of checking the trustworthiness, which means it is the checking of the reliability of the source and also checking that someone has not put that material up because of some relationship with the author, publisher or the sponsor. The Academic materials should be reliable and accurate and free of all sorts of biases so that people can take the best out of the expert's views.

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