1)      Brief Seminar Presentation: Each member of the seminar will be asked to offer a short (2-3 typed page) introduction to some aspect of the seminar’s text. Here you should develop a specific topic in relation to the text we are discussing. Please make copies for each member of the seminar.

2)      Web site: Due June 7, 2001. 2 or 3 seminar members can collaborate on a web site relevant to the subject of the course. Your team may stay quite close to the issues and topics of the seminar, or range quite far into a topic relevant to “digitalizing culture.” Web novices should not worry; there will be plenty of tech support and graduate student support to help you do your web pages.

3)      Final seminar paper (7-9 pages long), upon a specific topic within your broader web page topic, should be published on your web site and presented to me in hard copy form.

MLA Style: I am that your class presentation and final paper adhere to the form of citation and attribution developed by the Modern Language Association. It is quite simple and once you've learned it, you will find it becomes second nature.

1. Basic MLA form: Most of us do not have enough knowledge and memory to compose a paper without referring to books, articles, newpapers, web pages, etc. In you paper, you should have references to all the works that you quote from or have relied on in any way. First, cite these sources within the text of your paper (Last name, page number); second, put the full citation at the end of your paper in a "Works cited list." These two steps lie at the core of the MLA system of citation. The Works Cited List will have a list of all of your sources in alphebetical order. Here is a extremely lucid guide to the MLA Style put together by Arthur C. Banks of Capital Community College. In this age of on-line research and citation, it is also important that you give full citation to on-line sources. The UCSB English Department's Transcriptions Project has one of the fullest discussion of how to cite on-line resources. Here is a shorter guide to citing on line resources.
2. Rationale: By offering precise reference to your sources, you offer a courtesy to your reader (they can look where you have looked, find passages cited, etc.) and you protect yourself against the extremely serious and actionable charge of plagerism (borrowing concepts, terminology, and sentence structure without attribution.)