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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, USENET 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?
Though the following student-created web sites are more elaborate than the one I'm asking you to create, they may give you some ideas:
Regardless of your approach, you should clear your topic with me before you begin.
Also, 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).
If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me via e-mail. Here's how.
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