Resources:

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.

Please contact The Reading Department for comments or corrections email phone: 480-461-7020