Answer:
1.Credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and support
2.No author listed, no supporting institutions, the author has been controversial or negatively reviewed in the past, the writing is poor or contains errors
3.Is the information fair and balanced, objective, realistic, and consistent?
4.In order to determine whether the author's claims are true and reliable, it's important to know where the author got his or her facts and statistics, and whether these are supported by the majority of experts in his or her field.
The best action for Sabrina to take to improve her speaking skills in the future is A. to take notes on the topic and choose a few ideas to share.
Next time Sabrina should not only research the topic but she should also keep notes so that she doesn't forget all the information she finds. Also, although she could take notes about many different points on the topic she should focus on some of these ideas to share and she should choose these ideas beforehand. Thus, during the discussion she won't be lost as she won't be reading all of her notes during it in order to find which information she wants to share with the group.
