Questions for your Mailing List and Usenet Newsgroup

     By now you must have BOTH one or more MAILING LISTS to which you
are subscribed AND one or more USENET NEWSGROUPS which you are
checking every few days or so.

     If you haven't found these materials yet, please do so. Use the
suggestions in previous HW assignments to find them, and use Liszt to
subscribe to the Mailing List.

     If you need any help from me or from your group on these matters,
don't wait -- ask right away. 

     Study the questions and answers that you see on the Mailing List. 

     Now, your assignment is to formulate a good question for your own
research topics. 

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     In order to formulate a good question, you must know what you
want to find out. And what you want, at this point, is a
SCHOLARLY CONTROVERSY.

     In your question you should make the following things clear:

     * how much research you have already done -- what secondary
sources you have read; what other secondary sources you have at least
looked into;

     * what you want to find -- other  secondary sources, but
from differing, even contradictory viewpoints. In other words,
you want to know what the interesting scholarly controversies and
disagreements on your topic are.

     * you should state up-front and clearly that you are
NOT looking for anyone to "do your research for you." 

     - Rather, you are looking for persons knowledgeable in this area
who can help you find some scholarly controversy, which you can then
research further.

     Your assignment is:

     -- Write up your question. It should be no more than two
paragraphs long. Make it clear and make sure you ask for 
exactly what you want to know.

     -- Email this question to me.

     We will all discuss these questions in class.