Searching, Evaluating, Citing and Annotating Web-Pages for Inclusion in the Link Base of your Web-page
The goal: to link your developing web-page to web-sites that are both pertinent to your topic and authoritative as a source of information.

Assignment [due on the web by Monday 15th at class time]: each member of your team is responsible for locating, assessing citing and annotating a web-page. This page, and its one paragraph annotation will be placed on your web-site, and "signed" by the team member. [annotation author] Each new page you find, annotate and link to your page becomes part of the "link-base" for your page.

I: Searching. Choose a search engine; and learn about rules. I recommend "google.com"; Alta Vista; Yahoo; but you can use others. Begin your search using the key words appropriate to your team topic.
II: Evaluating a page: there is lots of junk and mis-informaiton and eye-candy on the web. How do you sort through the junk, so that you augment your page with pertinent and authoritative and artful information? Here is a check list by which you can evaluate the web pages you are thinking of annotating. Print out the check-list for evaluating web pages.
III: Citing a page for placement on your site: When you have found the web page, cite it by providing the basic information in the following form: Name of Author. "Title of Webpage." Title of Website. Date of electronic publication. Name of sponsoring institution. Date of access. <URL>.
IV: Write a thoughtful annotation describing the content and scope of the web-page and offering your assessment of its qualities. Here is an example from another Transcriptions course of a well designed page on the English author Oscar Wilde. It has a wonderfully written set of site annotations. You are welcome to imitate them.