FREE ESSAY ON RESOURCES ON INTERNET

RESOURCES ON INTERNET

Please visit two research web sites and report on them for the rest of the class. Make
sure your report is
appropriate
for your audience, fellow adult learners who will be doing a fairly comprehensive
research project.
RESEARCH SITES
http://www.umuc.edu/library/ols.html
University College Library Services
http://www.bedfordbooks.com/rd/index.html
Diana Hacker, Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age
http://www.businesswire.com
Business Wire electronically disseminates full-text news releases for public and investor
relations professionals to
news
media, online services and databases, the Internet, and the investment community. 
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html
Martindale's: The Reference desk. This award-winning website contains links to thousands
of reference resources;
more
efficient for some searches than using web search engines.
http://www.americancomm.org/
American Communication Association. Communications law, including First Amendment issues;
communication
studies,
including organizational, management, and intercultural communication; Internet
resources.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/
Library of Congress
http://www.hbs.edu/dor
Harvard Business School 
Search engine available to search among the documents in the Division of Research.
http://search.amcity.com/baltimore
Baltimore Business Journal, weekly publication on business news in Baltimore area.
http://www.umuc.edu/library/evaluate.html
Evaluating Internet Resources
GUIDES TO ONLINE COLLOBORATION
http://uclink.berkeley.edu:1607/11/NN/D.Richards_Peer_Editing
Guide to Peer Editing (Richards)
http://www.collaborate.com
Home page of Collaborative Strategies: Strategies for Electronic Communication and
Knowledge Management.
Click
on
Publications and Resources.
DOCUMENTATION INFORMATION
http://www.bedfordbooks.com/rd/index.html
Diana Hacker, Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age
http://www.psych_web.com/resource/apacrib.htm
APA Style Resources: Writing Manuals, Documentation, and Style Guides
http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles
Xia Li and Nancy Crane, Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information. 
When you get the home page, select American Psychological Association (APA) Embellished
Styles. (UMUC
teachers
usually prefer APA style over MLA style.)
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html 
Janice Walker, MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources 
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/citation/table.html
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation by Peter W. Martin, Cornell Law School