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Information Studies - Week 8

Assignments Due This Week

• Read about Critical Thinking (2 of 3).

• Read about Encyclopedias.

• Read about Indexes.

• Take the quiz.

Assignments Due Next Week

• Read about Critical Thinking (3 of 3).

• Read about Indexes.

Links to the Readings

-Thinking: Critical Thinking 2 of 3

• Why we don't think straight (Sutherland)
• Sure-fire Ways to Spot Bogus Information
• Evaluating the Quality of Web Sites
• How to Solve Any Problem: The Scientific Method
• What is critical thinking?
• Teaching Critical Thinking
• Defining Critical Thinking
• Criteria for Critical Thinking
• Good thinker vs. poor thinker
• Characteristics of critical thinkers

-Research: REFERENCE MATERIALS

• Introduction to using reference materials
• Encyclopedias
  • General encyclopedias
  • Specialized subject encyclopedias
• Indexes and abstracts
• Using Print Indexes
• Using Electronic Indexes
• Using Newspaper Indexes

Please send comments to: Colby Glass, MLIS

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