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Final Project: CWHP countries folio and presentation.

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NB: This list is intended to be a STARTING POINT for gathering information about your country. In addition to these sites, you should think of other places to gather information, such as encyclopedias, newspapers, or ask your friendly librarian about research materials in the library.

DO take notes as you read. You will submit them with the project.
FIRST, write down the name of your source and all the publishing information you'll need to make an accurate bibliography entry. (Check Writers Ink BEFORE you start!!!) 

SECOND: Quickly scan the whole article/document/internet site. You are making mental notes about what sort of information is in the article. You are also making mental notes about how useful this information is to what you need to write about.

THIRD: Go to the parts of the article that you think has information that you'll want to use.  Read each part carefully. For each part, think about what you have read, and write it down in your own words. Write as if you are telling a fifth-grader about what you have just read.    (This is REALLY HARD WORK! This is the most difficult part of the whole project. Spend your time here, and the rest will be a piece of cake! If you can't "put it in your own words," then you haven't quite understood what you have read.  Parse the sentences to figure out what it is exactly that you don't understand so that you can solve the mysterious parts.) 

Naturally, you can copy statistical information "as is," as well as charts or maps.  REMINDER: you must cite each source where you find information EVEN IF YOU DO NOT USE a direct quote. If it's "news to you," then you have to give credit to the source where you learned it. 

(It will be helpful to organize your notes in the same sections as are in the report, e.g. "Sociology/Anthropology - language; religion; music" "State Dept - government, officials, threats to country," etc.)
 

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