You
have a choice in determining your final project. Our goal is for you to
research a topic of interest to you using the types of resources we are
examining in class. You are the “class expert” in your research topic. EACH OF
YOU must compile an annotated “bibliography” of the online sources you have
found. Then, you may choose to do one
of the following:
1.
Keep a journal which shows your research process. Write an introductory
sentence about how and why you chose your topic, and then show the trail that
let to your bibliography. Your journal can include why you choose particular
sites, whether the sites were as you expected, and why or why they were not as
expected. Use all the notes you have written as well as the sites you have
bookmarked. (Please refer to the MLA Handbook for writing guidelines. See:
Harbor College Library’s Home Page at http://www.lahc.cc.ca.us/library.)
2.
You may give an oral presentation to the class in which you discuss your
research and the process you used to locate material on the Internet. Keep in
mind, that although you have completed a research project, the emphasis for the
discussion will be on the techniques in electronic research you have used.
This
is not to say that the topic is not important. Use the topic of your research
to explain why you would use one WWW site in preference to another (example:
pursuing information on CNN will most likely not uncover any information
regarding placing a .com Home Page on the Web; or how touring the Disneyland
site may give a link to a computer graphics site).
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