Exercise 15:
Evaluating Internet Resources
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Instructions:

1) Read carefully "Evaluating Online Sources," noting particularly the various academic and professional site descriptions and "Some Warnings."

2) Find five online websites over the Internet that address some aspect(s) of your social issue and its related controversy. At least one of these should be a website maintained by a college or university; at least one should be a site belonging to a professional organization; at least one should be a government document accessed from a government website. The other two may come from one or two of these same types of sources.

3) Using the formats illustrated in the discussion of  the MLA Style for citations and documentation in Writing From Sources, construct the formal bibliographical entry for each of these and e-mail them to me. 
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Submission Assignments through Regular Mail
Mail papers to:

Submitting Essays as E-Mail Attachments
It is absolutely essential to the security of your work that you follow exactly these guidelines:

1) Heading on Assignments
Place a heading on the first page of your essay in the upper left-hand corner.  The heading must include the following information:

First Name-Middle Initial-Last Name
DCCCD Student ID Number
Course-Course Number-Section Number
Month-Date-Year
Name of Assignment

Example:

John R. Pointer
ID 5555555
English 2326: 9543
February 20, 2001
Exercise 3

2) File Name
Save your file exactly according to this model:

JPointer-Ex3

3) Sending Me E-mail Messages
You must include your name and identify your message type in the subject line of each e-mail you send me.  For security reasons, if you fail to do so, I will delete your message without responding.

In the subject line, include your name and exercise number just as you saved your file above.
Example:

JPointer-Ex3

If you are sending me a message that needs immediate attention, then include one of the following formats in the subject line:

JPointer-Question
JPointer-Comment
JPointer-Urgent

Responding to Your E-mails
I always respond to your messages.  However, I always open "Question," "Comment," and "Urgent"  messages first and respond to them usually on the day I receive them. 

I will respond to your assignment messages within a day or two to let you know that I have received your work and files and whether or not I can open them.  To grade them, I open assignment messages in the order in which I received them.

Length of Time Required to Grade Your Work
It usually takes me from one to two weeks to grade essay-length papers and to return them.  Shorter papers I can grade much quicker.  I will return them as e-mail attachments to my response messages.
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