R ead the title and headings.

• Read the title and headings.
  
  
• See how the page is organized. Some pages have boxes or circles containing information and some have information presented in book form. If there are boxes, pay special attention to the bigger boxes, which usually have more information.

U se the cursor to skim the page.

• Do not read everything on the page carefully.
  
  
• Read quickly to find out what is included in the website.

D ecide if the page is worth reading carefully.

• If you need the information for an assignment, then read it carefully. If there are a lot of boxes and circles on the page, figure out a system so that you read all of them. It may help to start with the biggest box and then go to each of the smaller ones, or it may help to start at the left and move to the right.
  
  
• If you find that the information is not important to you because it is not related to what you have to do, then keep surfing.

Print the page.

• If you decide that you need to read the information in more detail, you can print the page or you can bookmark the site and go back to it and read it again.
  
  
• Sometimes it is easier to read print copies of pages because the print is bigger and because there may be less distractions.

C ollect your bibliography information.

• Copy the URL or the address of the website so that you can note it for any research you are doing and so that you can find this website again.
  
  
• Find the author and title (if available).
  
  
• Find the date of publication (if available).