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Overview

Contents of this page serve as a companion to my next book Illuminating Texts: Developing Students' Textual Intelligence. This book is not due out until 2002, but as I build the digital companion to the book I see no reason why such information should not be made available to you.

Digital Companion

Page 22 Visit Michael Wolf's Website for Entertainment Economy: How Mega-Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives web site.
Page 24 Internet Site Evaluation Worksheet (pdf)
Page 25 Martin Luther King, Jr. Hate Site

A very deceptive site that does not honor Dr. King or his ideas.
Page 27 Useit.com

This is the site where I found the usability table. Those interested will find much more.
Page 28) Sample Hate Sites: Just a brief list of sites:

Essential Connections
A short list of sites and documents I've found helpful. I must acknolwedge my debt to Jakob Nielsen's ideas as they are evident throughout my own site. His site---www.useit.com---has been the most useful to me.

  1. A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW
  2. Evaluating Internet Research Sources, by Robert Harris
  3. Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web, by Jakob Nielsen
  4. "Evaluating Internet Resources: Example Sites" by Keith Stanger (Contains inflammatory URLs as case studies; neither he nor I endorse any of these sites).

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