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Web Project assignment: Draft of Introduction

#	Due Date	Pts	Activity	Time
6	Monday 11:59 p.m.	10	Web Project this is a semester-long project where, little-by-little and step-by-step each week, you create your own web project on an aspect of the history of science of special interest to you	90 min - 2 hours

The rest of this page assumes that you are familiar with the general description of this weekly assignment found on the Web Project assignments page. After reading that description and completing last week's Web Project assignment, you are ready to begin this week's assignment.

Your assignment is to choose the topic for your Web Project, and to write a draft of the Introduction.

You are not required to choose the topic from one of the topics that you proposed last week -- but if you want to go with something different, you must check with me first.

In the Introduction, answer some of the following questions:

• why have you chosen this topic?
• what are some of the things you already know about this topic?
• what are some of the things you want to learn by doing this project? what are some of the questions you are trying to answer?
• why do you think this topic will be interesting for other people to learn about?
• what are at least three Episodes that you currently plan to include? (Your final Web Project will contain three Episodes.)
  • Remember that no two Episodes may be devoted to the same time period (ancient, medieval, early modern), and all Episodes must fall within the time period of this course; here are some important dates to remember.
  • Provide a sentence or two describing each possible Episode.
• what are at least three different primary sources you might use for this project? Provide a bibliographic citation for each primary source (including a url if it is online), and a sentence or two explaining how it might be useful.
• what are at least three different secondary sources you might use for this project? Provide a bibliographic citation for each secondary source, a sentence or two explaining how it might be useful, and a sentence or two justifying why you think it is reliable.

When completed, this assignment should be at least 500-1200 words in length. Please make sure that you have proofread the assignment and run a spellcheck and a word count. When you are done, send the assignment to the instructor in an email. Please give the email a subject line that says "3013-WebProject-Week4". Please do not send a document attachment. Just cut-and-paste the assignment into the message body of the email.

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