Argument: Essential Strategies of Argument --- a useful supplement to your textbook on the subject of argument. Mission: Critical --- the art, parts, and types of argument explained; great exercises are included! Critical Thinking Resources --- an excellent place to learn a lot about argument. Critical Reading: The Critical Thinking Community -- see the guru, Dr. Richard Paul @ Sonoma. Mission Critical -- an extensively developed site; exercises included! Go to Main Menu to see. Critical Thinking Assessment Tools -- the latest in thinking skills tests. Resources In Applying Critical Thinking To Reading -- critical thinking across the curriculum. Recommended Readings -- a HUGE bibliography on critical thinking/reading. Critical Reading Strategies -- good introduction to the fundamentals. Strategies For Critical Reading -- solid basics for critical thinking. Yahoo! Site Matches -- Wow! 36 great critical thinking sites, all in one place! Critical Thinking Resources -- a VERY helpful site, courtesy of Longview Community College. ESL: ESL Home Page -- your conquest of the wily English language should start here. National Institute for Literacy Home Page -- the hub, Grasshopper, of a wheel with many spokes. Interactive English Language Exercises -- great exercises; graded and scored while you wait! Dave's ESL Cafe -- stop here to feast on international linguistic cuisine. The Virtual English Center -- an exotic locale for learning about English. The ESL Center -- English language practice at its finest! An award winning site. Fallacies: Brian Yoder's Fallacy Zoo --- truly a wild kingdom! Transforming the Mind --- 15 types of distorted thinking. .Stephen Downes: Fallacies --- more of the above. Mission: Critical --- excellent descriptions with great exercises included. Critical Thinking Resources --- another superb site for learning about fallacies. Media Literacy: The CyberCurmudgeon Presents: The NEW Media Bias Web Site -- hot links to what stinks in news coverage. Media Literacy: News bias -- a list of surefire bias detectors. Center for Media Literacy -- perhaps the medulla oblongata of media literacy. FAIR--Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting -- a "national media watch group." Media Research Center -- "Bringing political balance to the media." Media Watchdog -- a collection of online media watch resources. Propaganda Analysis: Home Page -- a more detailed look at propaganda techniques. Deceptive Advertising Myths -- prepared remarks from F.T.C. Commissioner R.B. Starek. The Jargon File -- keeping jive alive, and it's even alphabetized! TechieTalk translated here. Research Helpers: Public Speaking Bibliography -- a veritable information emporium from MCC's Dr. Carolyn Fay. B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper -- "If you can't find it here, then you just can't find it." Excite Travel: Maps -- not only can you go there, but you can see what "there" looks like! NewsTracker -- top stories + links to many related sites. Research-It! -- "Your one-stop reference desk." The WWW Virtual Library -- an extensive catalogue arranged by subject. The Virtual Reference Desk -- to you, from Purdue. The Internet Public Library (IPL) -- go here, then click on "Reference." The Scholes Library Electronic Reference Desk -- index of "ready reference" sources. Best Information on the Net -- and they may not be exaggerating! An award winning site. Library of Congress Catalogues -- yes, it's a good site; yes, you paid for it. Study Skills: Study Skills Self-help Information -- a comprehensive package from Virginia Tech. Resources for Academic Success -- mucho linkage to primo info. Sites to Promote Academic Success -- additional links to superb sites. Study Skills Online Help -- more of the above. Academic Resource Center -- specific instruction for strategic learning. Learning Skills Links -- study skills tips from all over the globe.
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