Internet
Reports:
February 11 and 25
Read the directions carefully and follow them
precisely. Make sure you understand what you need to do in order to
get a good grade.
In order to do a good job on this assignment, you may
want to look at one or more of the following resources (the following are not
required):
a.)
net.TUTOR
at the OSU library (http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/index.html). Especially
appropriate are two of the advanced lessons (including the quizzes):
“Smart Net Research Strategies” and “Evaluation Of Web Sites.”
b.) http://www.ala.org/acrl/undwebev.html
Another
site to help you evaluate web sites.
The following assignments are required:
The first report is due by
midnight, February 11 (that is, by 11.59PM on Sunday, February
11.
The second report is due
by midnight, February 25 (that is, by 11.59PM on Sunday, February
25.
These reports are to be brief--one to two paragraphs. For each
report you must select a website, explore it, and write a comment or
reaction and post it automatically to the SCSU-OSU discussion page where it
will be read by others. You should indicate your reaction to the web site,
whether it was good or not, what you learned, and questions you might
have. Discussion with what other students must
form part of what you say and the best reports are those that respond
clearly to points raised by other students.
Reports should be written in clear, proper prose, and not be full
of slang or improper language. Please be polite (although you may
certainly disagree with what others have written) and say something that
will demonstrate that you actually looked at the site and that you have
something intelligent to say about it.
Reports will be evaluated on three points:
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Did you carefully read the material and attempt to understand it?
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Did you craft a reasonable and clear comment about the site?
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Did your report respond to the basic questions asked and points
made by others?
Also, notice that it is your responsibility to make
sure your report has been filed on the Internet.
Check and double check—this is part of the assignment.
If your report is not there by the due date, you will receive an E
for that report. No exceptions,
even if the server is down or the dog ate your computer. Good
advice is to get the assignment posted well ahead of the deadline!
Your grade will
appear on the website, but will be visible only to you.
It is always a good
idea to keep a copy of your report for your records (i.e., save it as a
word-processing document). If for some reason the SCSU web
server goes down or the website does not work when you try to submit your
report, try again later. In the event that the server is down the
day or two before the report is due, hold on to your report and I'll give
you alternative way to submit it. If the server is
working, however (and I'll know!), you must submit your report on the
website.
See a sample
of what an "A" report might look like.
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