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

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