Animated Character Study - HON250 - Animated Character Research

Group Activity 1

Website Evaluation Criteria

Using personal opinion or any research tools you like:

- List strategies or criteria to evaluate information on the Web.

- Think about what makes each criteria important?

- Each group will report back at least a few criteria.

Groups

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Evaluate Websites about Donald Duck

-Use our website evaluation criteria to critique the site assigned to you (below).

-Next, try to find 3 pieces of information from the site that could help you continue your research about Donald Duck.

Please be ready to share your insights with the class!

OneSearch
OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database.

Books, including ebooks, are particularly good sources for gathering background research on cartoon characters.

Type your characters name first in the search box. Depending on the uniqueness of the name and how many results you get from a simple name search, add qualifying terms such as "animation", "character". Or, enter some information you already know about the character, such as the animator, studio, film title in which they appear, etc.
Literature Resource Center
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on authors from all time periods, in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. For literary research, this is the place to begin! (Gale)

Literature Resource Center includes most, but not all, of: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and other selected Gale literary resources.
Gale Literary Index is a master index to every literary series published by Gale in print--including some series not included in LRC. This index is helpful if you have access to the print versions of the Gale resources.

Ebooks

Library Books