Annotated Bibliography 2

		Writing 316 - E Prof. Cora Agatucci
Advanced Prose Writing for the World Wide Web

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Assignment Objectives: Advice & Resources
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The WR 316 Annotated Bibliography assignment is designed to help you achieve 6 learning objectives. Below you will find advice & resources to help you achieve these objectives.

Objective 1

Conduct exploratory research, identify sources and formulate plans for the content and genre(s) of your WR 316 Term Web Project.
You were given a Preview of Term Project in the Annotated Bibliography assignment directions. Research conducted for the Annotated Bibliography should be directed by your plans for the content and form/genre(s) of your WR 316 Term Project, which requires "original content based on a significant amount of new research and writing produced during this term." The web sites you explored during Week #1 Reading & Research (see Online Course Pack) offer possibilities for form/genre(s) and/or design/layout of your Term Project.

Relevant directions for your WR 316 Annotated Bibliography require that your Annotated Bibliography Entry page describe your Proposed WR 316 Term Web Project, including topic, genre(s), purpose, and intended audience.

		If you are "doubling up" with a term project for another course that you are taking this term, you should say so, describe the requirements for that term project, explaining how you plan to adapt those requirements to your WR 316 Term Web Project.
		If you are building your WR 316 Term Project upon a writing/research assignment previously completed for another course, you should say so and describe how your new WR 316 Term Project will expand upon the past project by offering substantially new and original research and writing.

Objective 2

Adopt and apply college-level evaluation criteria for analyzing and selecting at least 10 recommended sources (must include both WWW and print sources) for inclusion in your Annotated Bibliography. Careful critical selection, complete bibliographical identification, and clear summary and evaluative annotations of a significant number of (i.e. 10) sources recommended in your Annotated Bibliography will make it valuable to your webusers. And as noted in assignment directions, your evaluation criteria for selecting sources for inclusion in your Annotated Bibliography should go beyond pertinence or relevance to the topic/contents of your Term Project.

		Relevant directions require that your Annotated Bibliography Entry page state evaluation criteria you used to select recommended sources included in your Annotated Bibliography.
		Stated evaluation criteria should go beyond mere relevance to your topic, to encompass other indicators of the reliability of your sources.
		One of your selection criteria for application to one (or more) web sources recommended should be that the web source(s) provide(s) useful models for the form/genre and/or design/layout of your Term Web Project.

Relevant directions for your Annotated Bibliography body web page(s) require that, for each of the 10 WWW and print sources included and recommended in your Annotated Bibliography, you . . .

		Write a full bibliographical entry, following or acceptably adapting a recognized academic documentation style (e.g. MLA)--both to avoid plagiarism and to enable your web-users to locate the source for themselves (See Objective 3 below);
		In addition: --WWWeb sites should be hyperlinked; --Print sources: include any additional information that will help your web-users locate these sources (e.g. Library of Congress catalog number, ISBN number, local COCC and/or ORBIS availability, etc.)
		Individual source annotations themselves must not only summarize content but also evaluate the strengths, and any significant weaknesses, of each recommended source; applying relevant evaluation criteria that are previewed in your Annotated Bibliography Entry page.

Annotated Bibliography 3 presents some Example Entries (in MLA Style) of concise summaries and evaluations of different types of sources:
<http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr316/assignments/AnnBiblio3.htm>

Links: Evaluating Sources--especially electronic sources--are given below. Explore these resources to help you formulate evaluation criteria relevant to your sources and your Term Project.

Links: Evaluating Sources (esp. Electronic Sources):

Alexander, Jan, and Marsha Ann Tate. Checklist for an Informational Web Site. Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener Univ., Chester, PA. 1996-1999. Last revised: 25 July 2001.
<http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/inform.htm>
[last accessed 24 April 2002].
"Print copies of this checklist may be made and distributed provided that 1) They are used for educational purposes only and 2) The page is reproduced in its entirety.
For any other use or for permission to make electronic copies, please contact the authors at Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University, One University Place, Chester, PA. 19013."
---. Evaluating Web Resources. Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener Univ., Chester, PA. 1996-1999.
<http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm> [last accessed 24 April 2002].

Engle, Michael (Reference Division, Olin*Kroch*Uris Libraries, Cornell University).
Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools. Oct. 2001.
<http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html> [last accessed 24 April 2002].

Evaluating Websites. Hum 299: Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers: Writing for the World Wide Web. (Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR)
http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/lessons/webeval.html
See: b. Five Content Evaluation Criteria: Authority, Accuracy, Objectivity, Currency, Coverage;
c. Five WWW Source Criteria: Uniqueness, Access & Connectivity, User Friendliness & Organization, Quality of Writing, Graphic & Multimedia Design

Kapoun, Jim (Reference and instruction librarian at Southwest State University). "Teaching Undergrads WEB Evaluation: A Guide for Library Instruction." Rpt. College & Research Libraries News 59.7 (July/August 1998). Last updated: 2000.
http://www.ala.org/acrl/undwebev.html [last accessed 24 April 2002].

Smith, Alastair G. "Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources." Rpt. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 8.3 (1997):
http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html [last accessed 24 April 2002].
© 1997 by the University Libraries, University of Houston: "Copying is permitted for noncommercial, educational use by academic computer centers, individual scholars, and libraries. This message must appear on all copied material. All commercial use requires permission."
...Plus Alastair Smith offers a "large, annotated bibliography of sources for evaluating information/internet resources":
Smith, Alastair G. "Evaluation of Information Sources." The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Information Quality WWW Virtual Library. 2002.
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm [last accessed 24 April 2002].

Objective 3

Avoid plagiarism by adhering to copyright and "fair use" laws, and by following an accepted college-level academic style (e.g. MLA) for citing sources.
U.S. copyright and fair use laws, as well academic documentation style guidelines, for World Wide Web sites and other electronic sources, have been in a state of flux for some time. In the interim we must do the best we can to adhere to the guidelines available to us. Links: Copyright & Citation given below offer the most current resources that Cora could identify in Spring 2002.

		Because of the transitional state of copyright laws, it is essential that you include a copyright statement (and disclaimer) in your WR 316 webs (we'll discuss further in class during Weeks #5 & #6).
		Header and Footer information of college-level academic web sites and web pages are also particularly important for web users who need to assess reliability of, and cite, your web site and web pages.
		Relevant directions require that you write a full bibliographical entry, following or acceptably adapting a recognized academic documentation style (e.g. MLA)--both to avoid plagiarism and to enable your web-users to locate the source for themselves--see Citing Your Sources below;
		Annotated Bibliography 3 presents some Example Entries in MLA Style of concise summaries and evaluations of different types of sources: <http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr316/assignments/AnnBiblio3.htm>

Links: Copyright & Citation

Copyright & Intellectual Property:

United States Copyright Office. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
[last accessed 24 April 2002].

Copyright, Fair Use, and Responsible Use of American Memory Collections. [This section will be most useful if read in its entirety.] Learning Page of the Library of Congress. 2000.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/resources/cpyrt/index.html
[last accessed 24 April 2002].

Citing Electronic Sources. Learning Page of the Library of Congress. 2000.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/resources/cite/index.html
[last accessed 24 April 2002].

Citing Sources & Intellectual Property Issues. HUM 299 Course Resources: Web Design & Evaluation (Cora Agatucci, Hum 299: Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers: Writing for the World Wide Web. Spring 2000 & Spring 2001. Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR):
http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/resources/links.html

Copyright Statement (Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR)
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/cpyrght.htm

Citing Your Sources.

If your Term Web Project addresses a topic in the sciences or social sciences, please see Cora for guidance. Otherwise, I assume that you will be using MLA Style for citing your sources (print and electronic) and/or an acceptable adaptation of MLA Style for citing your electronic sources.

MLA Style (Modern Language Association) guidelines for citing electronic sources seem to have stabilized, despite competition posed by the Columbia (Univ. Press) Guide to Online Style (CGOS), authored by English professors Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor (2000), for citing electronic sources in Humanities disciplines. While MLA has its own official web site, direct access to online guidelines and models for citing electronic sources is impeded by MLA's use of frames. However, you can get to those online guidelines via:
MLA Style: Frequently Asked Questions: "How do I document sources from the World Wide Web in my works-cited list?" Then follow the relevant links.
http://www.mla.org/www_mla_org/style/styleFaq_index.asp
[last accessed 24 April 2002].

Example Citation in MLA Style (though not double spaced or indented):

Baccala, Angela D. “Muses or Maestros? Women of the Beat Generation.” 1997. Student Project, HONR269J: The Beat Begins: American Culture in the 1950s, University Honors Program, Univ. of Maryland-College Park. 2001. 1 May 2002 <http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/HONR/HONR269J/.WWW/projects/baccala.html>.

Harnack, Andrew, and Eugene Kleppinger. "Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Electronic Sources." Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Resources: Citation Styles. Bedford-St. Martins, 2001. Note that Online! is frequently recommended and linked these days for reliable and user-friendly access to MLA style citation guidelines and models:
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html
[last accessed 24 April 2002].

Citing Electronic Resources. Internet Public Library at the University of Michigan. 2001.
http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/FARQ/netciteFARQ.html
[last accessed 24 April 2002].

Note: Cora continues to experiment with various models for citing electronic sources (in MLA or adapted MLA style) on her web sites, as you will see on this WR 316 web site, as well as Cora's other course web sites, including . . .

Bibliography & Works Cited in Cyber Rhetoric & HUM 299 Directions Webpages. HUM 299: Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers: Writing for the World Wide Web.
http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/lessons/biblio.html

Chinua Achebe Bibliography (partially annotated). HUM 211 African Authors: Chinua Achebe.
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebib.htm

Chinua Achebe In His Own Words (partially annotated).
HUM 211 African Authors: Chinua Achebe
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe2.htm

Genre Theory & Criticism: ENGL 339 Historical Fiction Annotated Bibliography
under construction:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng339/biblio/genre.htm

Introduction to Historical Fiction: Selected Readings ~ ENGL 339 Online Course Pack:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng339/Intro/index.htm

Sources & Resources for Further Study. Hum 211 African Timelines Bibliography:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinebib.htm
Works Cited. Hum 211 African Timelines:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/worksctd.htm

Objective 4

Follow accepted practices of "netiquette" by requesting permissions to link to and/or otherwise "use" WWWeb sources in your Annotated Bibliography. Netiquette = "Prescribed social behavior and manners on computer networks via an electronic medium":
http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/genques.txt
...as defined by Arlene Rinaldi (Florida Atlantic University), The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette, 1998:
http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/
See also Netiquette: Network Etiquette:
http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/lessons/webcite2.html

Objective 5

Build your competency in performing FrontPage 2000 basic operations in constructing the web presentation of your Annotated Bibliography (see FrontPage Lessons & E-Paper Evaluation Criteria). Among these FrontPage 2000 competencies, relevant directions for your WR 316 Annotated Bibliography require that you:

		Create a template for your Annotated Bibliography web pages; then
		Reproduce your template, rename and retitle your reproduced Annotated Bibliography Entry & Body web pages; and . . .
		Create navigational link(s) among your Annotated Bibliography entry and body web page(s), and your WR 316 Home Page
		WWWeb sites included in your Annotated Bibliography should be hyperlinked.

Objective 6

Take into account cyber-rhetorical principles of effective web communication in constructing the web presentation of your Annotated Bibliography.
(See Agatucci, Cora. "Cyber Rhetoric: A Rhetorical Approach to Writing for the World Wide Web." HUM 299: Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers - Writing for the World Wide Web. Central Oregon Community College, 2000, 2001.
Cyber Rhetoric (1): What Is Cyber Rhetoric? The Web Medium; Web User Patterns:
<http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/lessons/rhet1.html>
Cyber Rhetoric (2): Domains of Web Communication; Informational Websites & Targeted Audiences:
<http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/lessons/rhet2.html>
Cyber Rhetoric (3): Web Genres Form & Function; Student Web Genres:
<http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/lessons/rhet3.html>

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