In other words, it must be oceanographic in content. The paper should be five pages, typed, double-spaced and 12 point font. Your research should be web based. You will be required to reference the web sites you used as a basis for your research paper. You should have a minimum of ten web sites which you have used for the paper and you must include the full web sites addresses in your paper.
Web based research can be tricky.
Many web sites appear to be interesting at first but, upon further examination, are just fluff. Therefore, you will be required to critique web sites before you select the ten you will use for your paper. This project is equal to 100 points on your total of 500 points for the course. Students put too much faith in the material they find on the Internet, too often to the point of consulting no other sources. As librarians, we have been teaching Internet resource evaluation techniques to numerous biases and individual students.