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Web Exercises

Below you’ll find links to selected websites that offer additional information related to the material in this chapter of your text. Each of these links is followed by an exercise that will help you strengthen your critical thinking skills and practice using the Internet effectively.

A Note on Evaluating Web Sources

There are many more websites out there with useful information on this topic. You can find them on your own using a search engine such as Google (www.google.com), but be sure to evaluate every website you visit in order to judge its quality and reliablity. For more help on this important topic, consult Evaluating Web Sources.



Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details: For reinforcement of the concepts of topics, main ideas, and supporting details, visit this site on Cuesta College’s Academic Support site.



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  • EXERCISE: Once you’ve read the textual material, try the exercise. How did you do? Did your answer agree with the answer provided?

    • In Diabetes Today: This feature on the website of the American Diabetes Society provides the text to a number of current news articles on diabetes research.



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  • EXERCISE: Read this article, which reports on a study of the treatment of diabetes in African Americans. What is the main idea of the article? What supporting details are offered in support of this main idea? Do the ideas and details reported here enhance what you learned about diabetes from Selection 6-1 (“Diabetes: A New Epidemic”) in your text?






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