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Lesson Three
Specialization
Researching a Topic or an Area
This week you will select your own
topic--it may be a theme such as his time in the KGB, his policy on expansion
of NATO or his dealings with areas like the USA or Europe for an eventual research project/report on an 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 Putin’s childhood or schooling, his domestic policy, or
his visits with world leaders.
- 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.
- 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
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