Reading and All That Jazz: Tuning Up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills, 2/e

Peter Mather, Glendale Community College
Rita McCarthy, Glendale Community College

Fact and Opinion

Web Links

Reading Selection: Listening: To Tell Fact From Fiction, by Shirley Haley-James and John Warren Stewig
Screen Test: Separating Fact from Fiction Online, Inc. Magazine Online (http://www.inc.com/extra/stories/12299821.html) This is a very valuable article to read if you have any plans to use the Internet as a source of information.

Reading Selection: Truth is More Than Skin Deep Lie detector tests/ polygraphs The following websites offer information on lie detector tests, or polygraphs.
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/emp28.htm (http://www.lectlaw.com/files/emp28.htm)



http://www.spse.org/Polygraph_links.html (http://www.spse.org/Polygraph_links.html)



http://antipolygraph.org/ (http://antipolygraph.org/)

1988 Employee Protection Act The following websites offer information on the 1988 Employee Protection Act
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/polygraph/eppa.html (http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/polygraph/eppa.html)



http://www.polygraph.org/eppa.htm (http://www.polygraph.org/eppa.htm)



http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whfs36.html (http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whfs36.html)

Reading Selection: Superstitions Can Help Us Cope, by Patricia Wren Many superstitions are associated with weddings. For instance, why do guests at a wedding throw rice at the bride and groom as they are leaving? Why does the bride want to have "something borrowed and something blue?" Why are tin cans often tied to the married couple's car? Use the Internet to research a wedding superstition. Two interesting sites that offer information about wedding superstitions are:
http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/tradsup.htm (http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/tradsup.htm)



http://www.blissweddings.com/library/superstitions.asp (http://www.blissweddings.com/library/superstitions.asp)

Also, see the following websites for more information on superstitions.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html (http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html)



http://www.pinoystuff.com/folklore/superstitions/superstitions.htm (http://www.pinoystuff.com/folklore/superstitions/superstitions.htm)



http://www.islandnet.com/~luree/silly.html (http://www.islandnet.com/~luree/silly.html)

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