Chucking the checklist: A contextual approach to teaching undergraduates web-site evaluation

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Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 331-344

  Meola, Marc ^a  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

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EID: 4644345487     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2004.0055     Document Type: Review

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12. Scholz-Crane, 54; Deborah J. Grimes and Carl H. Boening, "Worries with the Web: A Look at Student Use of Web Resources," College and Research Libraries 62, 1 (January 2001): 12; Fritch and Cromwell, "Evaluating Internet Resources," 500; and Elizabeth Kirk, "Evaluating Information Found on the Internet," www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate (accessed April 14, 2004).
13. Scholz-Crane, 54; Deborah J. Grimes and Carl H. Boening, "Worries with the Web: A Look at Student Use of Web Resources," College and Research Libraries 62, 1 (January 2001): 12; Fritch and Cromwell, "Evaluating Internet Resources," 500; and Elizabeth Kirk, "Evaluating Information Found on the Internet," www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate (accessed April 14, 2004).
14. Scholz-Crane, 54; Deborah J. Grimes and Carl H. Boening, "Worries with the Web: A Look at Student Use of Web Resources," College and Research Libraries 62, 1 (January 2001): 12; Fritch and Cromwell, "Evaluating Internet Resources," 500; and Elizabeth Kirk, "Evaluating Information Found on the Internet," www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate (accessed April 14, 2004).
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16. Ibid., 523.
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29. Ibid., 6.
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31. I b i d.
32. For an interesting examination of this question, see: Christen Thompson, "Information Illiterate or Lazy: How College Students Use the Web for Research," portal: Libraries and the Academy 3, 2 (2003): 259-68.
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