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Web Exercises

Below you’ll find links to selected websites that offer additional information related to the material in this chapter of your text. Each of these links is followed by an exercise that will help you strengthen your critical thinking skills and practice using the Internet effectively.

A Note on Evaluating Web Sources

There are many more websites out there with useful information on this topic. You can find them on your own using a search engine such as Google (www.google.com), but be sure to evaluate every website you visit in order to judge its quality and reliablity. For more help on this important topic, consult Evaluating Web Sources.



Implied Main Idea Tutorial: This tutorial, hosted at Cerritos College, offers instruction on finding implied main ideas, and then offers 3 sets of exercises, of increasing levels of difficulty, for practice.



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  • EXERCISE: Read the short introductory material, and then do the exercise sets in order. (Answers and Explanations are provided.) How did you do? Did the exercises become progressively more difficult for you? If so, why? What kinds of strategies might you use to improve your skills in this area?






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