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4.1.10 Practice - Complete Your Assignment (Practice)
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4.1 practice: complete your assignment practice, english 9 sem 2 name: irayshiana givens, gather research for an essay about a hoax from the past. eventually you'll explain, the background of the hoax and people's reactions to it, but for now your task is to, conduct research., first you'll come up with a research question that will give you some direction as you, search for sources about the topic. you'll find at least five sources and evaluate each, for its credibility and relevance. you'll then choose the three strongest., your assignment should include the following elements:, ● a research question to guide your search for sources, ● a list of five sources that can potentially help you answer the research question, ● a final list of three sources that are credible and relevant to the topic, ● at least one source that is a different type of medium than the others, you should have completed a draft of this assignment in the activity before this one., if you haven't done so, go back and complete that activity now., ask yourself these questions as you revise:, ● is my research question specific enough to keep me on topic as i conduct, research will it lead to an interesting answer that isn't obvious will the question, require an entire essay to answer, ● are my sources relevant to the topic do they provide enough information to be, ● are my sources written by authors who have some authority on the subject are, the publishers credible as well, ● are my sources reasonably up-to-date, ● are my sources presented in a professional way are they well written and free of, obvious errors, ● if my sources are biased in some way, do they at least represent different, perspectives, use this rubric to determine how well you're meeting the criteria for the assignment., the y2k bug was a computer problem that was predicted to cause widespread, chaos at the turn of the millennium and was caused by the fact that many computer, systems used two digits to represent the year instead of four. there was a lot of, concern about the potential impact of this problem, but in the end, it turned out to be, largely a hoax., the rollover to 2000 might cause computer systems to fail globally, with potentially, apocalyptic consequences. they were worried that computer systems would glitch, and destroy the world, planes would fall out of the sky, banks would fail, and the, power would shut off all over the world. but it was never that serious and everyone, felt like they were being misled., people believed that the y2k bug would cause widespread chaos because it had the, potential to affect many computer systems around the world. there was a lot of, concern about the potential impact of this problem, and many people feared that it, could lead to widespread power outages, financial collapses, and other serious, problems. however, in the end, it turned out that most computer systems were able, to handle the transition to the year 2000 without any major problems., people prepared for y2k by stocking up on food and medical supplies, some extra, cash, a full tank of petrol, and warm clothes, as they would for a large storm. the, u. government passed the year 2000 information and readiness disclosure act to, prepare for the event and formed a president’s council to monitor efforts of private, companies to prepare their systems for the event. the research firm gartner, estimated that the global costs to avoid y2k could have been as much as $, here’s why the year 2000 was such a problem. back when computers were, just getting started, storage was really expensive. to save room,, programmers wrote years in two digits rather than four: 1978 becomes 78,, 1999 becomes 99. that meant that the year 2000 was an issue, though,, because “00” could just as easily mean 1900. to a computer, the stroke of, midnight on january 1 2000 might appear like a jump backwards in time. or, forwards, to 19100, if the computer program in question calculated dates by, adding 19 to the front of the abbreviated year., 3. explore a few different websites and databases, experimenting with different key, words and boolean signifiers. list below five sources that seem trustworthy and that, directly answer your research question. (make sure that the sources represent at, least two different media like print and radio or video, image, and print.), there was a lot of concern about the potential impact of this problem, but in the end, it turned, out to be largely a hoax, y2k scare | encyclopedia, the y2k disaster scenarios were a hoax | inc, the y2k scare | national geographic, y2k: people still think 1999's biggest tech scare was a hoax. it wasn't., 4. choose one of these sources and write about how current and relevant it is for, your research question., research questions: what was the y2k bug and why did people believe it would, cause widespread chaos, 5. select another one of your sources and write about how credible and trustworthy, it is. what are the credentials of the author or the publication that lead you to believe, it's a credible source, this source is creditable because it explains the hoax in depth and how it started., 6. pick a third source from your list and evaluate its credibility based on the writing, or presentation. explain your evaluation below., i chose this source because its telling what had really happened and why people.
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Topic : Media Literacy and Analyzing Information
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