This week you will select your own topic--it may be a theme (solid waste disposal problems, for example) or an area (like the Chernobyl region) for an eventual research project/report on an environmental issue of interest to you.

1. Assignment: Search-identify-read-take notes-outline (6 hrs)

• Search either by theme or word, use both English and Russian search engines. You might, for example, search out information on global warming or Russian environmental legislation, or on a geographical area, Lake Baikal, the cities of Moscow or St. Petersburg, Chernobyl. If you have nothing specific in mind, read the following articles or search these regions.
• Determine your specific research interest and then identify at least five sites/articles in Russian devoted to that issue. Save and annotate the sites as you did in Lesson one
• Read and translate from Russian into English the titles and the key thematic (first and last) sentences.
• Outline in Russian the issue(s)/problem(s), the data/findings/arguments, and your solution/conclusion.
• Submit your list of sites, original texts, translation, and outline as a Word or HTML document

 That's way too hard!!

• Search and identify five sites that are in both English and Russian.
• Annotate them based on the quality of the English language version.
• Compare to and describe the Russian language resources.
• Are there direct translations of key words and documents, or are they different?
• (Don't be reluctant to use a dictionary!) 
• Select and prepare a topic for your own paper. Check the Glossary (Windows machines only)
• Use four English language sources and one in Russian.
• Outline in English the issue(s)/problem(s), the data/findings/arguments, and your solution/conclusion.
• Submit your list of sites, original texts, the translation of the title and first and last sentences of each parargraph from your Russian text, and outline as a Word or HTML document