Assignment 1
For this and all other assignments (including your term paper), you may work alone or with a group of your classmates.
By September 17 , you should have located two high quality web sites on topics that you are considering for your term project. The links on the Course Description, Course Outline & Readings, Final Paper and the Betty Febo's Course Page for Econ325 provide good places to start.
For additional ideas click here to go to a web portal for law and economics or here for a general portal for law. When using web based materials, it is important to evaluate their relative merit.
There is no need to evaluate sites linked to the Econ325 web site or to Betty Febo's Course Page for Econ325. Betty & I have evaluated the sites that are hyperlinked to our web sites for the course.
You should find at least one of the two sites idenpendently. That is, the site should not be linked to the Econ325 web site or to Betty's Course Page for Econ325. Complete a RITE evaluate for the site that you identify independently.
You will be asked to assess the quality of all major web sites that you identify independently & use for your term paper using RITE system and this assignment is designed to give you practice using the RITE system.
Your assignment is to place the following in the folder named "Assignment 1" in the "Econ325-Drop" folder in the First Class conference for Econ 325 (Name: "Econ325-01-F08").
I will call on some students and ask them to present and discuss their answers to this assignment in class on September 17; so, be sure to keep a copy of your answers to this assignment.
In this and all other work on your term project, be sure to use the citation style you select consistently and to carry out RITE evaluations of the major web sites that you identify independently. A citation should allow those who read your work to easily find the items in your bibliography and the RITE evaluations should provide the reader with an informed guide to the web sites you use.
© Ann Dryden Witte, 1997