Methods of Critical Reasoning (online)

Useful Links for Internet Research
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Critical Reasoning Sites of Interest

• Barnet and Bedau's companion website for our textbook
• NoodleTools (on extremely useful and valuable research site)
• Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate's Evaluating Web Sources (Widener University)
• Elizabeth Kirk's Evaluating Information Found on the Internet (Johns Hopkins University)
• Frank Edler's Critical Reasoning Tutorial (Metropolitan Comm. College, NE)
• Valerie Hardcastle's Critical Reading Strategies (Virginia Tech)
• Statistics Every Writer Should Know (Robert Niles)

Text-Indexing Search Tools (WWW Search Engines)

• Alta Vista (Mike's personal favorite; capacle of powerful "advanced" searching)
• Google (another favorite of mine)
• Dogpile (a meta-search engine--combines results from several searches)
• Lycos
• WebCrawler
• E-Library

Subject-Directory Search Tools

• Roosevelt University Library Home Page (access to books, journals, e-reference works, etc; the single most important website for your research)
• The Internet Public Library
• Library of Congress Home Page
• The WWW Virtual Library
• Scholar's guide to the WWW
• University of Maryland Guide to Information Resources
• Refdesk.com
• Inter-Links

Useful Subject-Area Sites

• Government Web Sites
• Social Science Research Tools
• Business History
• Humanities Research Tools
• Biology Research Tools
• Environmental WWW Library

Student-Recommended Websites

• American Medical Association
• United States Food and Drug Administration
• American Psychological Association

The Writer's Toolbox:  Selected Resources for Writing and Documentation

• Evaluation criteria for BGS research papers
• Hacker's companion website for Rules for Writers:  comprehensive, annotated, authoritative.  An excellent supplement to our 302 web resources page.
• The Online! WWW Reference Source (I've used this book in 302 before)
• Strunk's Elements of Style (a classic)
• MLA Format Guide (for more detailed questions about MLA style)
• Research Paper Resources (a legitimate source for help in writing papers)

• Evolution Update:  The Evolution Research Center for Teachers and Students of Biology (a great jumping-off point for pursuing evolution topics)
• The Talk.Origins Archive (a discussion site on the evolution/creationism debate)
• Creationism websites (compiled by the Darwin and Darwinism website authored by Robert Young)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• The Creation Research Society

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