Assignment : Evaluating Websites
Question
Part A: First, go to the Wikipedia page about that play. Post the first paragraph of your Assignment essay to the Wikipedia page. In the next few days, monitor how long your post stays on Wikipedia and if any "content alerts" about it appear. Then, write a paragraph summarizing what this exercise suggests about information available on popular websites.
Part B: Now, research the play that you examined in Assignment by identifying a website about it (other than the Wikipedia page used in Part
A). Evaluate the website by answering all the questions below, and note your findings so that you can refer to them when you are working on Part C.
1. Who is the author? (An expert in the field? Scholar? If you cannot quickly locate this information, you might want to move to another source).
2. Who is the advertiser or group paying for the webpage? (Since hosting a webpage is rarely free, your job as a savvy evaluator is to learn who pays the bills for the website. This can tell you plenty about what vested interest the company has in the information).
3. Who is the audience? (For scholarly research, you should look for a site that is meant for scholars and/or students. Informational websites are interesting, but not based upon sound, valid research).
4. Is the information objective? (You should use only sources that present material based upon solid reasoning and research rather than opinion only).
5. Does the website offer links to additional information? (Solid websites recommend other credible, valid sources).
Part C: Use your findings in Part B to develop a PowerPoint presentation (about 5-8 slides) about the website that you examined. The first 5 slides of the PowerPoint presentation should highlight what you concluded about the website's credibility (develop one slide for each of the 5 criterion above). Be sure to tell if you think that the site is scholarly or merely informational. Whenever appropriate, include excerpts from the website and/or the play it features to support your claims. Provide in-text citations on slides that quote, paraphrase, and/or summarize these sources. Slides 6 to 7 should recount your experience of posting to Wikipedia (Part A) and what that exercise suggests about informational online sources. Slide 8 should list references formatted in APA style.
Part D: Post the PowerPoint presentation in the Discussion Area. You do not have to post the paragraph that you wrote for Part A or the findings you noted in Part B because all that information is included in your PowerPoint presentation.
Outcomes:
• Understand and apply critical reading, thinking, and writing skills to literary works, including short stories, drama, and poetry.
• Identify and analyze the elements that form various literary genres.
• Analyze and evaluate literary works and websites in writing and discussions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the use of proper sentence construction, and basic rules of grammar, punctuation, and spelling in your own work and that of your peers.
• Write an effective analytical essay about a literary work using correct APA style and providing evidence for the interpretation of the literature.
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