Our objective is to address issues of improving students effectiveness in information gathering and sharing. The purpose is to develop a model for use in class. The program is applied to both graduate and undergraduate public works courses. Our intent is to improve the student's comprehension of course content and expand the student's ability to process a greater volume of information. The primary means of improving these communication skills will be a short focus on Internet interactive services. A secondary objective is critical reading.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.