Social Networking Project - Pro/Con Web Site

This week, you will create a Pro/Con Website for your social networking issue. It will contain 3 web pages: 1) An issue position page; 2) A page with arguments for your position; 3) a page with arguments against your position. Your goal is to communicate arguments for both sides of a position to your reader. You want the reader to be able to find the source, know how credible the source is, and know what argument support the source contains. You do not have to cover all arguments in depth.

You are doing this to practice analyzing articles, assessing their credibility and describing how the information in the article links to your narrowly focused position.

Take a look at the sample: Here is a sample pro/con web site

If you want to learn using a video, you can Here is a link to the video showing the web pages being made AND here is a link to a video showing the pro/con page being filled with research

STEP 1: Revise your issue position statement and fix all citations

• Portions of your bibliography and issue position statement will be copied to the next assignment,so if there were any comments, address them first.
  • If you need to find your original articles, try this: (see a movie of these instructions here)
    • First just search for the article title on the internet, and you might find it. It might cost to read it though, in which case, continue to the next step.
    • Locate the database that holds your journal by going to the Adelphi's Database of journals inside databases and search for the journal name. See the database that holds the your journal for the year you need it. 
    • Go into that database by browsing to it. You can use Adelphi's Databases  to access by database name. 
    • Then search for the article name. Sometimes searching for the author is helpful as the title is not recognized easily. You can also try the advanced search to look for some keywords in the title plus the author's name.

STEP 2: On your home page (index.html) add a link to "Issue Position"

• Overview: You are just adding a link to "Issue Position" at the top of the page to a page called "issue.html" that you plan to create in the next step.
• Exact steps in Seamonkey:
  • Open Seamonkey
  • Choose Window / Composer
  • Choose File / Open and then choose your index.html
  • Write "Issue Position" at the top (so I don't have to scroll)
  • Highlight "Issue Position"
  • Choose Insert Link
  • Type "issue.html" in the link box (all lower case)
  • Choose File / Save
    

STEP 3: Create the Issue Position Page

• Overview: You will be copying your issue position text and arguments to this new web page and creating links to 2 new pages: 1) pro and 2) against
• Exact Steps in Seamonkey:
  • Choose File / New
  • Choose File / Save as
  • It will ask a title, and you can enter "issue" (all lower case)
  • Name the file "issue" (all lower case) and be sure it is in the same folder as your index.html
  • Copy the text of the Issue resolution statement to this page
  • Write the words "Arguments for my position" and "Arguments against my position"
  • Highlight "Arguments for my position"
  • Choose Insert Link
  • Type "pro.html" in the link box (all lower case)
  • Highlight "Arguments against my position"
  • Choose Insert Link
  • Type "against.html" in the link box (all lower case)
  • Choose File / Save

STEP 4: Create the Arguments For My Position Page

• Overview: You will be writing about the arguments found in your research that support your position. Your opinion will not be included, only research results. Your sources for anything mentioned on the page will be listed at the bottom of the page.All facts will be cited with inline citations such as (Smith, 3) linked to your source citations at the bottom.
• Exact Steps in Seamonkey:
  • Choose File / New
  • Choose File / Save as
  • It will ask a title, and you can enter "pro" (all lower case)
  • Name the file "pro" (all lower case) and be sure it is in the same folder as your index.html
  • Write "Arguments for my position" and then enter a few times
  • Write "Sources"
  • Copy all sources containing information supporting your position from your bibiliography under "sources". You need at least 3 sources on this page, but can have all 5 if you want. Be sure to include the database name if there is one, and the type of source, as well as any bias you found.
  • Now you have to read your sources carefully, looking for arguments and facts that would support those arguments. This is a small instruction, but will take some time as it is the real research work step.
    • You might want to refine your position. To see how to strengthen this position, watch this video
  • Under arguments: Write a bullet for each argument you have to support your position. This must be in your own words.
  • Under each argument: List the facts from your research that support the argument. If you copy text, you must use quote marks.
    • Add inline citations for every fact in a form such as (Smith 3) for MLA or (Smith, 2010, p. 10) for APA.
      • Your entire cite must be either APA or MLA.
      • Inline citations need page numbers
      • Everything fact or argument should have at least one inline citation
      • Every source on the bottom of the page needs at least one inline citation referring to it.
  • Choose File / Save

  See a sample pro/con web site to see how the arguments have facts with inline citations listed under each argument.

STEP 5: Create the Arguments Against My Position Page

• Overview:
  • You will be writing about the arguments found in your research that do not support your position. Your opinion will not be included, only research results. This is the same format as the prior page, and only needs 2 sources. Include 2 arguments.
• Exact Steps in Seamonkey:
  • Choose File / New
  • Choose File / Save as
  • It will ask a title, and you can enter "against" (all lower case)
  • Name the file "against" (all lower case) and be sure it is in the same folder as your index.html
  • Write "Arguments against my position" and then enter a few times
  • Write "Sources"
  • Copy all sources containing information supporting your position from your bibiliography to here . You need at least 2 sources on this page.
  • Fill in the Arguments against my position with inline citations in the same way as you did for the prior page.
  • Choose File / Save

STEP 6: Upload your new pages to Panther

• Overview:
  • Upload the index.html that you changed plus the 3 new pages to panther. If you added pictures, be sure to upload them also.

• Exact Steps in FileZilla:
  • Connect to panther by choosing file / site manager/ and clicking on your site and hitting connect. If your site is not set up, click here to see the ftp guide
  • • Change FileZilla's "local site" to c:\my_public_html (or wherever you have your my public html folder as it might be on the desktop)
      
    • In Filezills's remote site, double click on public_html to be sure that is the folder being displayed. See index.html 
      
    • See that the "remote site" is now /home/<your account>/public_html. This is Very important.
    • Drag all files in my_public_html into public_html right over the index.html filename.
      
    • (If your new files are not displayed, right click on the index.html in my_public_html and choose open with notepad to be sure that one is the right one. Then, drag it over from left to right again)

• Look at your website on panther (www.adelphi.edu/~<your account> )
• Copy the website address into a document.
• Upload the document to moodle so that I know you are done and can grade.

See the full project  overview here.