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Article for 8/31 class - [[:File:Internet Encyclopaedias go head to head.pdf]]
 
Article for 8/31 class - [[:File:Internet Encyclopaedias go head to head.pdf]]
  
'''<u>Additional Readings About Information Overload:</u>'''
 
 
* '''[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129384107&sc=nl&cc=es-20100829 Digital Overload: Your Brain on Gadgets (NPR)]'''
 
  
 
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[[:File:Biographical Sketch.pdf]], Chapter 18 of Webster's New World Student Writing Handbook
 
[[:File:Biographical Sketch.pdf]], Chapter 18 of Webster's New World Student Writing Handbook
  
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[[:File:Online scavenger hunt.doc]]
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===<u>Wiki-Related Resources</u>===
'''<u>Additional Readings About Information Overload:</u>'''
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===<u>A'''bout Writing for the Web:'''</u>===
* '''[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129384107&sc=nl&cc=es-20100829 Digital Overload: Your Brain on Gadgets (NPR)]'''
 
 
 
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<u>'''Additional Readings About Writing Biographies:'''</u>
 
 
 
[[:File:Biographical Sketch.pdf]], Chapter 18 of Webster's New World Student Writing Handbook
 
 
 
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'''<u>About Writing for the Web:</u>'''
 
  
 
* [http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html How Users Read on the Web ]by Jakob Nielsen
 
* [http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html How Users Read on the Web ]by Jakob Nielsen
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* [http://www.e-gineer.com/v1/articles/web-writing-for-many-interest-levels.htm Web Writing for Many Interest Levels ]by Nathan Wallace
 
* [http://www.e-gineer.com/v1/articles/web-writing-for-many-interest-levels.htm Web Writing for Many Interest Levels ]by Nathan Wallace
 
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<u>'''Variety of Wikis on 1970 Kent State Shootings'''</u>
 
<u>'''Variety of Wikis on 1970 Kent State Shootings'''</u>
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[[:File:Online scavenger hunt.doc]]
 
[[:File:searching & citation.doc]]
 
  
 
<u>'''Additional Items about Wikis:'''</u>
 
<u>'''Additional Items about Wikis:'''</u>

Revision as of 03:33, 10 November 2010

Course Syllabus: File:FYS022.syllabus.2010.updated 9.3.10.pdf File:FYS022.syllabus.2010.updated 10.21.10.pdf

Required Text:
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Badke, W. B. (2008). Research strategies: Finding your way through the information fog. New York: iUniverse, Inc.


Recommended Stylebook

APA Style Manual (6th ed.) Information about manuals and helpful online assistant at [[1]]

APA Style Aid tutorial

Also, see Appendix 1.6.2 of your textbook for links to crib sheets with APA formatting examples. (Hint: page 205)



Additional Readings About Wikis: Article for 8/31 class - File:Internet Encyclopaedias go head to head.pdf



Additional Readings About Writing Biographies:

File:Biographical Sketch.pdf, Chapter 18 of Webster's New World Student Writing Handbook



In-Class Assignments:

File:Online scavenger hunt.doc File:searching & citation.doc



Drake History-Related Resources:

File:in-celebration-of-century.pdf

Drake Heritage Collections (website)

Times-Delphic Index



Oral History Resources

How to Guide for Doing Oral Histories

File:Examples of Oral History Questions.docx(courtesy of Erica Skuta)

StoryCorps (website)

Oral History Association (website)

File:interview release form.pdf

File:interview information form.pdf



Wiki-Related Resources

About Writing for the Web:


Variety of Wikis on 1970 Kent State Shootings


Wikispaces Wiki on Kent State Shootings

PBworks Wiki on KSU Massacre

Wikipedia Wiki on Kent State Shootings

Video of Massacre (Class at KSU)

Additional: "May 4 Collection" at Kent State University Library



Additional Items about Wikis:

Wikipedia: Pros and Cons



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