What tips can help someone use the resource efficiently?

Internet Resource Guide Assignment Prompt
First Draft Due (6 abstracts/summaries): 7/7 by 11:59PM
Peer Review Due: 7/8 by 11:59PM
Final Draft Due: 7/12 by 11:59PM
Overview
This assignment asks you to identify and describe key Internet resources for an audience of other people in your chosen context. You could, for instance, create a guide of resources that would help a beginning architecture major survive their first year in the program. Or, you could create a guide that helps a gaming enthusiast master a particular online game. There are a lot of possibilities and you shouldn’t feel restricted to academic content. Organize and format this information so that others can find and use the resources efficiently and effectively.
Through this assignment, you will find a range of online resources that can be useful within a particular context. You will present and describe those resources in a technical guide designed for people who would find this information useful. You will need to make decisions about organization, format, and style as a means of creating a usable document for readers. And you will need to learn to write effective abstracts.
Objectives
To become familiar with specific and good online resources.
To make decisions about organization, format, and style as a means of creating a usable document for readers.
3. To develop skills with writing abstracts.
Resources to Identify in the Guide
Identify 12 Internet resources that are relevant to your chosen context. Choose from the following categories of information (or propose other relevant categories of information to me):
• directory of information sources/portals • potential employers and job search services
• sample reports/documents/research studies • especially relevant news articles
• government documents • discussion forums, wikis
• informative encyclopedia entries • reviews/interpretations
• biographical references • handbooks
• subject guides to the literature

Information to Include about the Resources
For each resource that you identify, provide identifying information (title, URL, etc.). You will also describe the resource in an abstract so that readers will understand its general function and its specific scope.
In writing abstracts, assume readers will ask the following questions:
What is this?
What is in it (content, scope)?
How is the information relevant and useful for someone interested in my chosen context?
How is this site productively different from the other resources in the guide? In other words, what is it adding that the other sites don’t?
What tips can help someone use the resource efficiently?
In short, your abstracts should let readers know what they’re getting into so that they can effectively use the resources you provide rather than browsing blindly through them.
General Information
Rather than a print document, I am picturing this assignment as a web-based resource. Your guide should include an informative (and, if possible, catchy!) title, a brief introduction to your topic (what is it, basic information, why readers might want to explore further or learn more), and a well-organized selection of resources. You may format this assignment as a webpage or publish it as one if you have the means to do so. Keep everything as reader-friendly and easy to use as possible – for example, hyperlinks are a good idea. Other formats are acceptable, but you should email me with your ideas first. Final drafts should be 2500-3000 words, I suggest shooting for 150-200 words per resource. Adding an introduction should get you to the required length easily from there.
Organizing Your Guide
Your resource guide should contain at least 12 entries. In many ways, those entries will be determined by the section categories you create to organize your guide. In turn, these section categories will be influenced by the purpose and audience for the guide. So, for instance, if your guide was geared toward new viewers of a television show, you might create a different set of categories than if your guide was geared toward viewers who have already watched the entire series. Or, your guide might want to organize all of the academic publications about the series into one guide (with different categories), whereas another guide might have academic publications as a single category within the larger guide.
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