Spring 2001: Annotated Webliography
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| Purpose |
In many ways, a webliography
is nothing more than a bookmark file. This might cause one to ask
"Why in the world do I need a webliography when I can just bookmark my
favorite sites?" There are probably multiple answers to this question
but the most compelling answers to me are:
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Often I am asked for the URL
for a site which I know I have in my bookmark file. That means I
have to go to my bookmarks and look up the URL. With a webliography,
I can often just give them the URL of my webliography and they can access
that page and find the site they are looking for. That means a lot
less work for me.
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Bookmarks are only available
to you on your pc, so you are not able to access them from any other machine.
This means that if you have a site bookmarked on your home computer and
you want to access it from a school computer, you have to know the address
because you will be unable to simply check your bookmarks. Having
your favorite sites included in your webliography means you have access
to those addresses anytime you are on the Internet.
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Because others can access your
webliography, it serves as another way to tell others about yourself -
who you are and what your interests are.
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| Components |
A webliography is simply
a collection of links that will take one to other sites on the WWW.
For this class, I want you to organize your links by categories.
Your webliography should include (at a minimum) links within the following
categories (in whatever order you wish to use):
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Fun/weird/zany/outrageous "stuff"
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Discipline specific "stuff"
(sites useful for speech pathologists and audiologists)
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Research Resources (sites pertinent
to your area of research)
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Personal Interests
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Anything else you want
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| Annotations |
| In the "discipline specific"
and "research resources" section of your webliography, include annotations
for each site. Annotations are simply notes about the site.
These notes are typically 3-5 sentences long that provide the reader with
a sense of the credibility of the site (perhaps a reference to the sponsoring
organization or the author's credentials), a brief description of the contents
of the site, and an indication of the potential value of the site for professionals.
Feel free to annotate any
other sections of your webliography. The only required annotations,
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| Samples |
| The links below will take
you to some sample webliographies from last semester. Consider these
"works in progress" which is what your webliography will be...always changing.
Please note that you may use any file name that you wish (but do NOT
name your webliography index.html or you will overwrite your home page)..
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| Assessment |
| Your webliography is worth
50 points. Points will be awarded in according to the grading sheet
you can locate at:
http://www.marshall.edu/commdis/courses/315/webliography-grading.htm |
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