Using the World Wide Web, write an annotated bibliography of websites on two of the following topics: biology vs. culture, child care. communication (verbal & non-verbal), definitions of femininity/masculinity, feminism, gender & education, gender & ethnicity, gender & health, gender & media, gender & sports, gender & work, gender socialization, gendered language, gendered joking, homosexuality, marriage, men's movement, partiarchy, pornography, religious definitions of gender, romantic relationships, sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, steretypes, violence against women, welfare.
Assignment is due: October 11, 1999.
Consult the Website evaluation guide on how to write your paper. It is to be approximately 5 pages and you are to have a minimum of 5 sites per topic, 10 in total. Do not attach print offs to your paper. It should follow the format below:
b. Answers to Evaluation questions
c. Comments Your assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the web site.
The purpose of this assignment is to help you develop a method for taking notes of websites that provides information about the site not just the contents. In evaluating the validity and usefulness of a site, certain kinds of information are necessary. You have learned how to do this for books and also journal articles. Now you will learn how to do it for websites. This information is important in helping you decide which websites provide valuable information on topics you have chosen. So this is meant to be in an outline form so you can easily find the information relevant to each area. Don't write paragraphs. Then you will have a record of the sites you have visited and won't have to look them up each time to find out if they are useful sites or not.