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Tuesday in Class Work

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches#References

1. Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? 1b. Yes, the article uses a book by one of the actual night witches to answer questions. That is a great reference because it gives you a good insight as to what the women of the company were actually feeling.

2. Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? 2b. No, I was actually the most intrigued by not what the women were doing, but by how the German military said that the stalling of their plane reminded them of broomsticks flying through the air giving them the nickname "Night Witches."

3.Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? 3b. The article is extremely unbiased. It isn't very big to begin with, but it really just gave a quick overview of who the women were. They didn't go into much detail about their training, or stress the importance of a female presence in the military at the time.

4. Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that biased noted? 4b. I can't read some of the sources because they are books in Russian, but the title "They called us Night Witches," refers to it being written by one of the Soviets. A lot of the articles seem to come from the soviet side of things, this could be seen as a biased for people. It would be interesting if they were able to get more of the German aspect of the Night Witches, or if there were ally countries that fought along side the Night Witches that could attest to their heroism or bravery.

5. Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? 5b. I don't see any viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented. They do mention that, when you go into the actual women's pages of the Night Witches crew, then you can see that they do talk about the fact that women were barred from joining the military until Joseph Stalin ordered them to create a regiment of just women. Some of the women had lost their homes to Germans, and family members that lost their lives in the war, yet they were forbidden from joining the military. That could be an underrepresented view.

6. Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article? 6b. All of the articles took me to a lot of really cool sources, some of them were books that I would actually be interested in reading. I did notice that a lot of the Wikipedia article about the Night Witches has the same tone and some of the same facts as an LA Times article. ("Day of Glory for USSR's Night Witches", by Robyn Dixon. Los Angeles Times. May 10, 2001, Part A: Foreign Desk, page A1.)

7. Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? 7b. I honestly don't know what information could be out of date because I am not an expert on the subject. They do even go on to talk about the people that replaced the women that lost their lives in combat, SO I would say it is safe to say that they did a good job of going into real depth about this topic.

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