Resources for Readers

On-line resources for READ students

Reading Comprehension Page
The SQ3R Reading Method
Word of the Day from Merriam-Webster
Speed Reading: Improving Reading Rate and Comprehension
Study Skills: Self-Help
Critical Reading: Critiquing an Article from a Social Sciences Journal 
Quotations on the Art and Habit of Reading
Practice TASP Reading Test Online
ACE Practice Reading Tests
TASP Test Information
Blinn Library Catalog
Texas A&M Library Catalog
A Basic Tutorial for Searching the Internet
Evaluating Internet Material
Evaluating Web Sites (from the Writer's Roosts at KU)

On-line dictionaries and thesauri -

Merriam-Webster OnLine  Dictionary-Thesaurus
Dictionary.com
List of On-Line Dictionaries
Roget's Thesaurus

Evaluating Internet/Web Material

http://www.unm.edu/~edserv/web-evaluation.html
http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/index.html
http://www.lib.purdue.edu/StudentInstruction/evaluating_web_sites.html
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/idle/evaluating.html
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evaluating.html
http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/checs98.html
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html
http://longman.awl.com/englishpages/citation_walker.htm
http://longman.awl.com/englishpages/cyber.htm

On-line reading exercises -

Purpose, Tone, Point of View, and Inferences
"Who is the Computer Generation?", by Peter England
Vocabulary
Excerpt from "A Study in Scarlet."
Opposing Arguments
Animal Rights Declaration Essay, by Garrison Pinslow
Animal Rights Not Such a Good Idea, by Brian Carnell
Pages listing multiple essays
Controversial Topics from Multnomah Library

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