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Web Project assignment: Complete your Web Project!

#	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

This week you will...

1. Add a Conclusion
2. Revise your Introduction
3. Clean up Bibliography and Image information

1. Add a Conclusion

Spell out exactly what you think you learned from working on this project. You may write it from scratch, or it may include some of the material that was originally written for your introduction. Perhaps you can use it to answer some of the questions about your project that your classmates asked when they gave you feedback. When completed, your Conclusion should be at least 500-1200 words in length. (The maximum length is a strict limit.)

2. Revise your Introduction

• Take a look at the assignment for the revised Introduction back in Week 6. You can use the information there to help you revise the Introduction now.
• One very important thing to keep in mind is that you should no longer use the future tense for things you have already accomplished! For example, if you said, "I will write my Episode about Archimedes," then you should revise that now to say, "This is an Episode about Archimedes," or "I have written my Episode about Archimedes."
• Only include now the primary and secondary sources that were really valuable to you and that you actually used for your Web Project -- hopefully you will be able to give people some good advice about sources and websites to look at that are related to your topic.
• Briefly mention each of your Episodes, and make a link that goes directly to the Episode page. For example, "The first Episode I included was how Archimedes discovered the principle of bouyancy while taking a bath, which is a story that is famous all over the world." Probably the best introductions are the ones that give lots of interesting information about the specific Episodes in the Web Project, so that people will want to read them all!
• When you did the Introduction originally, you were not required to include an image on this page, but now would be a good time to pick the best image and include it here on the page, or to find some other image that you think would look good as part of the Introduction.

When completed, your Introduction should be at least 500-1200 words in length. (The maximum length is a strict limit.)

3. Clean up Bibliography and Image information

Make sure you review the information that should be included with the Bibliography and the requirements for the Image Credits. Here are two very common problems that people have had with their Bibliography and Image Information that you should keep an eye on:

1. when you are citing an item from a previously published book, you need to include the author, title of the book and the year of the book's original publication.
2. the weblink that you provide for the image should be to a webpage, not to an image file (i.e., not to a jpeg or gif file) -- if someone clicks on the link you provide, it should take them to something more than just the image; they should be able to see the image in the context of a webpage where it was originally displayed.

Please make sure that you have proofread your Introduction and Conclusion and run a spellcheck and a word count. When you are sure your Bibliography and Image Credits are complete for every page of your web project, send the instructor an email which contains a link to your project home page. Please give the email a subject line that says "3013-WebProject-Week14".

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