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= Step 3 - Gather Missing Research /Template Final Page/ Publish Research Bank (100 points) = = Due Date: Monday, December 19 - at the beginning of class. =

Objectives:
After you have identified the needs of your group, and distributed the workload, it is time to begin production and ORGANIZE. There are three things your group needs to accomplish this week:
 * Locate the missing information as determined from Step 2
 * On your Group's Main Page, create an initial template for the content of your final page.
 * Create a Research Bank for your project, combining the resources of all group members.

Locate Missing Information
This is pretty self-explanatory. If there are questions your group can't answer, you need to locate the resources to do so. How you accomplish this is up to you. When you feel all of the questions can be answerd by the resources. Post a new message in the Discussion area on your Prewriting page. Each member must reply to this message indicating agreement.

Template Group Final Page
Go to the main page for your group, i.e. "Group 1." Set the initial template for your page by creating a working title and headings for the eight sections of your page. At this point you might want to consider the order in which you want to present your content. [For those of you who might be considering a more advanced form of navigation, don't worry about that until the content is written. After the holiday break, we will have a full week in the computer lab to work on the design of the page.] Click here to view a sample template.

Research Bank
On your Prewriting page, create a link to a new page titled "Research Bank - Group X." On this page you want to create a research bank that combines the links from all group members. This will be especially helpful in discovering if there are too many repeated sources. For example you might find out that for commentary on the play all of the members used About.com. The person assigned to this topic will see that s/he will probably need to find some more information on this topic. If you found more information this week, don't forget to include that in the Research bank as well. The Resource Bank should be in chart form and easily readable. Again, it is up to you how you design the chart and insert the information. At minimum, the chart needs to provide: Topic section headings (i.e., Commentary on the Play), links to resources (Copy/paste the links from your individual chart, this should keep the formatting of the hyperlinks if you created them), Name of the member contributing the resource, linked to your personal page (This provides a cross reference to your personal page where group members can read your summary of the resource).

Communicate
Don't forget to communicate with each other. Keep your group informed of your contributions and needs by posting comments on your Prewriting Discussion are.

Evaluation Criteria

 * Post a discussion thread on the Prewriting page acknowledging all content questions can be answered
 * A template is created on the group's main page
 * Resource Bank is linked to from the Prewriting page and included a compilation of all group members research efforts.