Page Title Computers and Writing . Sinclair Community College . With this in mind, Teacher Resources suggests a number of ideas for Web reading and a sequence of competencies and skills. For example, students can examine a print autobiographical essay, then look at a personal web site. Or, students could look at online journals and compare them to printed ones in the same subject area.
Students can compare their reading practices and reactions online vs. print.
Have students generate their own lists of evaluative criteria for effective and ineffective Web sites. See if they can distinguish genres of web sites and evaluative criteria for each. For example, a business site may have very different criteria than an online magazine. For example, individual students or groups of students could look for pages on a specific topic, then present their findings to the class, or students could be directed towards one or two similar sites, then asked to find another similar site. Introduce web reading.