SayPro Source of text

We are exposed to a range of texts in our everyday lives. We read adverts, listen to news broadcasts that have been written by someone, receive emails, read lecture notes, notices, marketing material, magazines, newspapers and books. Reliability Reliability means the extent to which the text is likely to be accurate. The extent to which text is to be trusted to be accurate, correct or to provide a correct result, e.g. “I don’t think the report that aliens have landed is very reliable.” One way to check reliability is to look at the source. If we heard on the 7 o’clock news that aliens had landed we might be seriously concerned. We assume that news reports are fairly reliable. We also assume that newspaper reports are fairly reliable, so again if we read in the “Cape Times” that aliens had landed we would take it fairlyseriously. If however we read this in a sensationalist magazine we should have serious doubts about it.