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Langan: Reading and Study Skills
Reading and Study Skills, 7/e
John Langan

Textbook Study III: Applying PRWR to a Textbook Chapter

Internet Exercises

For this assignment, explore the websites below. As an alternative, you may do a search for other relevant websites that address these topics. Be sure to note which websites you used.

(See http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/langan/cws/stu_olc/m0_using.htm

Using the Internet for some tips on how to judge the quality or reliability of information on any website.)

 

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/complexity/Chalquist2.html

A Paradigm Shift From Lines To Circles: Twelve Characteristics of a Family System

This web article provides an example of the impact of general thinking about complexity in the particular context of family therapy, and is in turn a contribution to creating a general structure for thinking about complexity. Also provided is a set of links to sites of interest in connection with family therapy. These provide practical information and may serve as well as a resource for thinking further about brain and behavior.

 

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0875630.html

Households and Family Structure

This webpage provides numerous tables and figures evaluating different aspects of family structure.

 

http://www.ncadv.org/

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

NCADV is dedicated to the empowerment of battered women and their children and therefore is committed to the elimination of personal and societal violence in the lives of battered women and their children.

 

http://www.divorcenet.com/

DivorceNet.com

This website offers extensive information about divorce, including forms, state-by-state professional services, bulletin boards, and more.

 

http://www.divorcecentral.com/

Divorce Central

The Divorce Central team has developed this website to offer help, support, and information, and to give you the opportunity to communicate with others who are in various stages of decision-making, mourning, mediating, settling, litigating, and just plain "dealing" with divorce.

 

http://www.si.se/docs/infosweden/engelska/fs67.pdf

Fact Sheet on Sweden

This PDF document is a fact sheet on Swedish demographics.

 

Option:

As an alternative, you may do a search for other relevant websites that address these topics. If you choose this option, be sure to note which websites you used by answering the following questions:

1. What is the URL or address for this site?

2. Who created the site? (This may be an individual, an organization, or an institution. For some websites, it's difficult to determine who is responsible for the content. If that is the case for the website you looked at, indicate that here.)

Describe the website, and react to the content of the website.

3. Write down the URL of the website or websites you explored for this assignment. If you selected more than one, you may compare the sites. Which one was the easiest to navigate? Which one had the most useful information? Which one would you come back to for further information, or recommend to others?

4. Is this site effective, in your opinion?

5. If so, what elements does it have that make it a good site? If not, what elements would you recommend to make it better?

6. How does this information support the readings in your textbook?

7. Add any other comments you would like to share. For example, would you recommend this site to your classmates or friends? Did you experience frustration with any aspect of this assignment?