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» Evaluate

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» Plagiarism

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• - Practice
• - Plagiarism Quiz

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Short Cuts to Evaluating

Book Reviews

Book reviews can give you insight into what others think of this book. A good reviewer will include many A.S.P.E.C.T.s of evaluating.

An easy way to look for reviews is to use the "Book Reviews" limiter in ProQuest. [29 seconds]

Shortcuts with Google Books

For thousands of books, Google Books may provide you with information about many A.S.P.E.C.T.s of evaluating books. Explore the Google Books features on your own, or visit the Google Books module.

IRIS 4-2 is an Information Literacy project developed with a grant from the Distance Learning Council of Washington, 2007-2008. Some content, images and activites were inspired by, and/or copied/adapted from TILT: The Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (no longer available). IRIS 4-2 is available for adaptation under the terms of the Creative Commons License.

This version of IRIS 4-2 includes modifications made by Linda Zuvich, Library IT Specialist, Everett Community College Library. An unmodified version may be found at http://www.clark.edu/Library/iris.