Webliography

WEBLIOGRAPHY GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS AND RUBRIC:

Your Webliography assignments should include an introduction to the site and a description, and/or evaluation, of it. Be specific. The key is that someone should be able to read your entry and know whether this site is relevant to their research. See the examples below for good descriptions. Most importantly, it should describe the site (What is it about? What is in it?) and then explain why it would be useful (What specific parts of it make it helpful? What resources does it offer us in our research?). See the examples at the end of this rubric for more information!

How to Post:

When you go to the Webliography tab and click on it, you’ll see “add new entry,” on the left, just above the heading. When you click on it, you’ll go to a page that will have fields for you to fill in. It will include the title of the site, the category, the URL, the description, the site author, and the date it was last modified. Currently you cannot edit webliography postings, so make sure that it is correct before submitting it! If you need to, just submit more than once and email me to erase the one that you no longer want posted.

Grading Criteria:

· The entry is from an academic or literary source. (The URL is NOT from Wikipedia or other wiki or social media sites – no about.com, schmoop.com, etc.) You will receive zero credit if your site is from one of these sites. Please consult the “Scholarly Sources” document available for download in Doc Sharing for more info or if you need advice!

· You have included a helpful description of at least 4-5 sentences that tells us what we’ll find on the site.

· You have given a clear overview of what resources make this site so useful . In other words, explain its value as a source . (Why would we want to use this source?)

· Your description is grammatically and mechanically correct.

· The URL is correct.

Rubric

Requirement	Comments	Score
Quality of source		20
Description & Overview		30
Grammar/mechanics		10
Total		60

Examples:

Pennsylvania State Constitution of 1776. (2008)

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/pa08.asp

The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (ratified September 28, 1776) has been described as the most democratic in America and was drafted by Robert Whitehill, Timothy Matlack, Dr. Thomas Young, George Bryan, James Cannon, and Benjamin Franklin. The Constitution provides for a unicameral legislature, a Supreme Executive Council, a President elected by an Assembly and Council together, and a Council of Censors and was highly influential on the later Constitution of 1787. This site is useful as it gives us an insight into the debate over constitutional government that would culminate in 1787 and provides in-depth analyses of the key figures that contributed to the drafting. It also includes a section connecting the Pennsylvania Constitution to the later Constitution of 1787.

University of Oklahoma College of Law (2015)

https://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/federalist/

This site outlines the general concept of the Federalist papers, written under the pseudonym Publius, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay. The site recognizes the significance of these papers, which were published in order to gain support for the ratification of the Constitution. The site contains a column along the left side of the page which links to all 85 of the Federalist Papers themselves, so that the documents can each be read in their entirety. The papers also list the individual writer of each article, even though they were all published under the same pseudonym.