Essay Topics on World War I
1. World War One on the Web - Analyzing web Sources
Your task is to examine several Canadian World War One websites and evaluate them. Some choices are given to you here, but you are free to select others and include these in your evaluation.What are some criteria for evaluation?
Evaluation can focus on some of the following ideas: 1. Scope and Detail, 2. Accuracy, 3. Visual Appeal, 4. Interactivity, 5. Navigation, 6. Audience. Before you get started, ask yourself a few questions to help you understand the purpose of your research. For example, what would a student who has been given the task to examine the horrors of war be looking for? How would the task be different for someone interested in the need of war to create a sense of common purpose and unity, or how would a researcher examine issues at home that are the by-product of military engagements abroad?
Selected Links (Note: These links may or not work or may have dead links. Take this into account when you evaluate.Feel free to find other links, but stay with Canadian sources)
1. Identify your purpose for your research.
2. Identify appropriate websites that "seem" to provide information to meet your needs.
3. Identify strengths and weaknesses on your website to support sufficient data collection and write-up.
4. Proper essay format: Thesis and introductory paragraph, Body paragraphs, Conclusion, Citation of sources.
2. For the second essay, you will choose a controversy related to World War I or examine a primary document and discuss its significance. Examples of controversies are The Ross Rifle and Profiteering, French Canadian soldiers serving in English-speaking battalions, Conscription, The need to fight in Passchendaele. Primary documents can be recorded speeches, images, newsreels from CBC archives, newspaper articles.
Your essay will be framed like this:
1. Introducing your topic or theme
2. Discussing the material and identifying the issues
3. Concluding
4. Citation of sources
Your task is to examine several Canadian World War One websites and evaluate them. Some choices are given to you here, but you are free to select others and include these in your evaluation.What are some criteria for evaluation?
Evaluation can focus on some of the following ideas: 1. Scope and Detail, 2. Accuracy, 3. Visual Appeal, 4. Interactivity, 5. Navigation, 6. Audience. Before you get started, ask yourself a few questions to help you understand the purpose of your research. For example, what would a student who has been given the task to examine the horrors of war be looking for? How would the task be different for someone interested in the need of war to create a sense of common purpose and unity, or how would a researcher examine issues at home that are the by-product of military engagements abroad?
Selected Links (Note: These links may or not work or may have dead links. Take this into account when you evaluate.Feel free to find other links, but stay with Canadian sources)
- http://www.thegreatwar.ca/
- http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ww1can/
- http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/home-e.aspx
1. Identify your purpose for your research.
2. Identify appropriate websites that "seem" to provide information to meet your needs.
3. Identify strengths and weaknesses on your website to support sufficient data collection and write-up.
4. Proper essay format: Thesis and introductory paragraph, Body paragraphs, Conclusion, Citation of sources.
2. For the second essay, you will choose a controversy related to World War I or examine a primary document and discuss its significance. Examples of controversies are The Ross Rifle and Profiteering, French Canadian soldiers serving in English-speaking battalions, Conscription, The need to fight in Passchendaele. Primary documents can be recorded speeches, images, newsreels from CBC archives, newspaper articles.
Your essay will be framed like this:
1. Introducing your topic or theme
2. Discussing the material and identifying the issues
3. Concluding
4. Citation of sources
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