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Prevention is better than cure.
I saw a cartoon recently about netting the surf. But netting anything worthwhile takes the skills, knowledge, strategy and gear of the expert fisherman. When it comes to surfing the web, Mark Treadwell s book of the same name provides both teacher and student with the knowledge, skills, strategy and gear to do just that. He then describes a 10-step web research process, demonstrating how to develop semantic fields, how to use directories, search engines and Boolean operators. The section on sifting, scanning and evaluating sites for suitability and credibility is particularly good.