FYS 101B: The Internet and the Humanities

Web Page/Resources Assignment

For your final assignment, you should choose a humanities-related topic that interests you and create an annotated web page that describes/explains the topic and provides relevant, useful Internet resources: web site links, e-mail lists, newsgroups, etc. Your annotations should both briefly describe and, wherever possible, evaluate the resources and explain why you chose them. You should include at least ten resources. You may also add a paragraph indicating material relevant to your topic that apparently is unavailable electronically.

NOTE: many web sites devoted to authors already exist. You should try to avoid duplicating those sites. You might be better off choosing an historical event that interests you, a literary work you've enjoyed, an issue, a genre, or a little-known composer, painter, historical figure, or writer whom you'd like to see become better known. Another possibility: take a short paper you've written for another course and use it as the basis of a hypertext document in which you create links, provide graphics, let people know about other sites and e-mail lists relevant to your topic, etc. What do you find to be the advantages and disadvantages of your hypertext version?

Here are two student-created web sites (one from UMBC, one from Georgetown) that may give you some ideas:

• Jeehan's Brief Guide to Indian Music
• Hypertext Guide to Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

Regardless of your approach, you should clear your topic with me before you begin.

The page Web Page Evaluation Criteria may give you an idea of some of the things I'll be considering in assessing your web site, though not all of it applies to your site (e.g., I don't expect you to create a site with more than one page, though you're welcome to do so).

One more thing: you may NOT use web-building software (e.g., Dreamweaver, Front Page, Netscape Composer) at any point during the creation of your web page! You should do all the coding yourself, not via a software program. I'll explain more about this in class. If you use a WYSIWYG program such as those mentioned above, you will receive a 0 for the assignment.

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me via e-mail. Here's how.

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