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Spears: Developing Critical Reading Skills
Developing Critical Reading Skills, 6/e
Deanne Spears, City College of San Francisco

Exercises

Online Exercises

The following Web sites are recommended for students interested in learning to apply the critical reading skills they learn in class to Web-based material. Each of them is a little different, but all have the same purpose: to show students what to look for when they use the World Wide Web to obtain information, whether for an academic class or for personal growth.

UCLA
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

University of Southern Maine
http://library.usm.maine.edu/guides/webeval.html

Ithaca College
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html

Cornell University
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill26.htm

Widener University*
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/inform.htm

*The text of the information from Widener University's Web site is provided here:
"Checklist for an Informational Web Page"