Resources

From Collectivate Course Wikis

Links: Research Skills

Thesis Writing (Excerpts from Writing a Thesis: Substance And Style by Keith Van Wagenen)

• How to study (How to manage your time, how to research, how to write essays)
  
  

• Note taking skills

• Skills for critical reading

• Presentation skills

• Useful formulations for your thesis

Hacker, D. (2004) A Pocket Style Manual. Boston: St. Martin's.

• The Harvard style (pdf) | Online Guide (Harvard)

• MLA formatting

• Del.icio.us/trebor (Trebor Scholz' links to web resources on a wide range of new media topics.)

Open Media Art Archives

• Media Art Net Archive http://www.mediaartnet.org/sitemap/en/
• Database of Virtual Art http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de
• Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia (Find a second source before you use Wikipedia as a reference in a research paper.) http://wikipedia.org

• Sign up for Google Alerts of terms that are central to your research http://www.google.com/alerts

• Faceted Metadata for Image Search and Browsing (example of research paper) http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/papers/flamenco-chi03.pdf

Collaborative Blogs

• Eyebeam Re-blog http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/
• Corante. Many-to-many. Tech News http://www.corante.com/many/
• GrandTextAuto http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/2004/06/06/storytronics/
• MIT Computing Culture Weblog http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/compcult/
• Turbulence http://www.turbulence.org/blog/
• Terranova http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/