1. PLAGIARISM Plagiarism is using other people’s work and ideas and claiming as your own without permission or giving credit to them. You are going to create a short report on Jacopo di Poggibonsi, a medieval artist that copied other people’s work. Poggibonsi is an early example of plagiarism. Go to the following site to gather information: www.umich.edu/~engtt516/

2. TRUE OR FALSE: STEP 1 Go through and complete the interactive tutorial The ABC’s of Web Literacy at the following link: http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/ tutorials/webliteracy/weblitintro.html This site will give you some important insights into evaluating the validity of web sites.

3. TRUE OR FALSE: STEP 2 Visit each of the following websites and complete the Questions to Ask About a Web Page form for EACH. 1.www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html 2.www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html 3.www.molossia.org/countryeng.html 4.www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Conference_papers/ SELS96/WoO.html

4. TRUE OR FALSE: PART 3 In pre-assigned groups of four, complete the following questions for EACH site: 1.Would you classify this as a legitimate web site? Why or why not? 2.Is this site reliable enough to use for an academic research project? Why or why not? 3.Have each group member select a different site and search other sites to validate the information on the original page. Were you successful? Record and explain your results.