Mariana

RESEARCH ONLINE 

Reading 826 AA

Library Visit

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Research Online and MLA formatting

• Google Doris Lessing Prisons We Choose to Live Inside.
• Figure out how appropiate this website is for your task. 
• What clues should we note?

Review: Prisons We Choose To Live Inside

July 11, 2006.. Doris Lessing's book, Prisons We Choose To Live Inside, ask just this question, though as it was written in 1986, has different wars in downes-review.bloggspot.com/../prisons-we-choose-to-live-inside.html-

	CRITERIA	YOUR COMMENTS
1	Institution or Author	At the top, Stephen Downes,  not scholar.
2	Up to date	July 11 2006, not fairly up-to-date.
3	How clear is the author about?	Very clear
4	How substantial is it?	Medium.
5	Formatting	Clean, elegant, error free.

MLA FORMATTING

http://dianahacker.com/pdfs/Hacker-Daly-MLA.pdf

Bibliography=Works Cited=List of all your resources.

Example:

British Author Doris Lessing Reacts to Novel Win. ReutersLC. <youtube.com/watch?v=vuBODHFBZ8K>. October 12 2007, July 9, 2009.

 

Web Site Evaluation Worksheet

URL/Address: Seyed Mohammad Marandi interview on Persepolis and Reading Lolita

Title of the site: Man with a Country

Date accessed: July 15, 2009.

1.      Is there another information source that you know of where you could find this information or check for accuracy? If so, where? http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=3197

2.      Can you identify the author or producer of the site? Who are they? Amy DePaul.

3.      Is contact information for the author or producer available? By email: editors@guernicamag.com

4.      Is the author affiliated with an organization, agency, company, or institution? If so, which one? Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics.

5.      Is there a link to more information about the organization, agency, company or institution? Google.com

6.      What is the expertise of the person who created this site? What are their qualifications?

7.      Is there an evident bias on the site? If so, what is it and how is it important to your research? Yes at some point it is bias because he feels more american than iranian.

8.      What is the purpose of the web page (is it supposed to be informative? entertaining? factual?)  Who is the site’s target audience? (Adults, kids, college students, etc.)? It is an infortmative web page for adults and college students.

9.      Is the page dated? yes

        When the web site was last revised? February 2008

        Is this important to your research? yes

        Did you find many "dead" links? No

        Have some expired or moved? No

10.  Exactly what information on the site is important to your research? When he talks about his point of view of Persepolis.

11.  Is the material on the web site in-depth enough for your needs? Too in-depth? It is in-depth.

12.  Is the text readable; is it grammatically correct, are words spelled correctly? It is clean, elegant and error free.

13.   Do you have any other observations or notes you think are important? There is not enough information about the author.

Works Cited

Amy DePaul.  "Man with a Country".  "An interview with Seyed Mohammad Marandi".  February 2008.  Guernica Magazine.  July 15, 2009.  http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/506/man_with_a_country/