Alternative Press Resources Workshop
Western New York Library Resources Council
May 16, 2005

 

Library Research Tools
 
1. Bibliographies
2. Directories
3. Guides & Handbooks

4. Indexes
5. Online Sources
6. Publishers
 


Critical Thinking and the Alternative Press
 
Things to look out for when using information sources:

1. Bias
2. Point-of-View
3. Accuracy
4. Currency
5. Language
"Critical-thinking skills": A phrase that implies an ability to analyze ideas and solve problems while taking a sufficiently independent, "critical" stance toward authority to think things out for one's self... one cannot think critically unless one has a lot of relevant knowledge about the issue at hand. Critical thinking is not merely giving one's opinion. To oppose "critical thinking" and "mere facts" is a profound empirical mistake. Common sense and cognitive psychology alike support the Jeffersonian view that critical thinking always depends upon factual knowledge."
-- Prof. E. D. Hirsch, Jr., The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them


Web Resources
 
Educate Yourself: Getting the Information You Need: Alternative Press Resources on the Web
 
 
 


© 2005, Kate Pitcher