Senior+Project+Assignment

Senior Project: First steps

Instead of a traditional senior paper, you will be completing a senior project that, in the end, will conclude with a researched, argumentative essay and a class presentation. However, the process of this project will be more important (in many respects) than the final products. Through this project, you will learn how to use some of the newest tools of research to pursue a topic of your own choosing. The topic for this project is up to you; you will follow your own interests.

Along the way, you will be working with the following research tools (and more):

Blogs Web Aggregators Wikis Noodletools Nings Librarians (at BHS and at the Brookline Public Library) On-line databases Twitter News feeds Specialized search engines Books (!) Social bookmarking tools

Topic for the senior project:
 * A problem, issue or concern that you have that is related to the Boston/Brookline area (but may also be related to larger concerns)
 * On-going (though it may have historical roots)
 * Able to contact local experts, representatives, participants, officials
 * Something you genuinely feel needs to be addressed
 * Need not be political! It does need to be something that you care about

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