Final Project Draft #1

Due Date: May 2, 2000

Please complete a draft of your final project, including at least the following (if you can do more, you can get more feedback):

• Write your research question

Bibliography:

Find at least 10 sources that you might use to do research for a term paper on a topic of your choice and arrange them in MLA bibliographic format. (If you have a particular reason for using a bibliographic format other than MLA, please contact the instructor.)

Include at least one of each of the following types of sources:

• books.
• magazine or journal articles (more scholarly journals are preferred, but this will depend on the topic.)
• article from an encyclopedia or other reference book.
• newspaper articles.
• information on your topic found on the Internet. If possible, try to include at least 1 site with audio.
• citations for a book review article that reviews a book in your bibliography.
• annotations of any sources you cited
• Optional: 1 e-mail discussion group may be included (not required)

Pathfinder:

• List subject headings from the LC Subject Headings that are related to your topic.
• Include a general search worksheet for your research question.
• For at least one of the following databases, complete a pathfinder worksheet, i.e. list the the subject heading(s) or search terms (include fields, if used) used to find books or articles related to your topic and the number of records found for each search:
  • any Infotrac database (e.g., Academic ASAP)
  • any newspaper index or database (e.g. Proquest database or SFGate)
  • any of the following subject periodical databases:
    • WilsonWeb Omnifile, ABI/Inform, BIOSIS, ERIC, PsycInfo, PAIS, Medline (PubMed) or other scholarly periodical databases (from the Web or Dialog).
  • any World Wide Web subject directory (e.g. Yahoo!, Librarians' Index to the Internet, InfoMine, etc.)
  • any World Wide Web search engine (e.g. NorthernLight, AltaVista, InfoSeek, HotBot, etc.)
  • any subject-specific World Wide Web database (see Databases on the Web)

Click here to see Final Project Guidelines for details on how to complete this assignment

SUBMIT ASSIGNMENT:

Write your draft as a word processing file, preferably in Microsoft Word. (Please let me know if you use a different word procesing program.) Please name your file: finaldraft1 (If you use Word, the .doc extension will automatically be added so it will be named: finaldraft1.doc )

Please e-mail the file (as an attachment) to: brenner@smccd.net

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