Unit 10-2 Downloading Multimedia

After completing this unit, you will be able to:

• Use Internet search engines to locate resources in specific application content areas.
• Download text and graphics from the Internet.
• Download audio and video resources from the Internet.
• Use proper bibliographic style when citing sources from which Internet materials were downloaded.
• Use good judgment in deciding what is a fair use, and what requires copyright clearance, when downloading materials from the Internet.

Reading

Read chapter 33 of the Multimedia Literacy textbook to study the concepts covered by this unit.

Online Activities

The term paper that you are writing in this course must follow either the APA, MLA, or CMS style guides. There is a sample term paper showing the correct way to write a paper in all three of these styles. It is important for you to review the style of the sample paper and make sure that the term paper you write emulates it. Note especially the way the sample uses inline citations to refer to the bibliographic references printed at the end of the paper. You must use the same style of inline citations in your paper. To study the sample paper, follow the link to the style in which you plan to write your paper:

• Sample term paper in APA style
• Sample term paper in MLA style
• Sample term paper in CMS style

Assignment

This unit prepares you to answer the assignment that checks to make sure you understand how to use proper bibliographic style in citing the sources you will be quoting in your term paper:

• This assignment is a "style check" to make sure you will know how to use proper bibliographic style (either APA, MLA, or CMS) when you write your term paper later in this course. After you read chapter 33 and study the sample term papers at the Multilit Web site, please rewrite the sentence below, which quotes the definition of multimedia on page 2 of your textbook. Rewrite the sentence by including in it an inline citation that attributes the quote as coming from a scholarly source that you will document in the list of references at the end of your paper. Beneath the rewritten sentence, also write the bibliographic entry that would appear for this citation in the list of references at the end of the term paper. Finally, tell whether you followed APA, MLA, or CMS style. The sentence to rewrite is:
  
  As defined by Hofstetter, multimedia is the use of a computer to present and combine text, graphics, audio, and video with links and tools that let the user navigate, interact, create, and communicate.