Evaluating Internet and Scholarly Sources Across the Disciplines: Two Case Studies

College Teaching

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 151-156

  Calkins, Susanna ^a   Kelley, Matthew R ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

critical evaluation; history; Internet sources; psychology; scholarly sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953299802     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/CTCH.55.4.151-156     Document Type: Article

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