Five Components

The Five Components

	As helpful tools, we will produce some of these components. The five are: a Chronology, Short Outline, Long Outline, Glossary of Terms, Annotated Links.

	We will all produce a short outline (aka, table of contents) and a page of annotated links. With those two, one of the other three components will be required. So, while you may only produce a Chronology (and omit the Long Outline and Glossary), you might want to include one or both. When we finish and browse each other's components, keep in mind that these are only a beginning, and will be works-in-progress. These will grow as your research and thinking grows. But a beginning is necessary for a middle and an end!

	Two components required of us all:

	1.) Annotated Links related to your project. We have already have had introductions and experience with Link Pages: now to make a Link Page related to your Project.

	2.) Short Outline -- will become a set of entries that show the logical development of your paper, and would make good link headings for various sections. The short outline has essentially four parts, as outlined here. Peter of Blois example linked here.

	Of the following, one is required for a total of 2+1:

	1.) Chronology. Depending on the nature of your paper, putting things in order of when they occurred can be valuable. Cause preceeds effect. Getting causal events and their chronological relationship to results can reveal much about such developments. A short example linked. For the Peter of Blois paper, chronology was unimportant, except for that one example concerning Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine where chronology hit the jackpot.

	2.) Long Outline. Sometimes I get into a control-freak head, especially when lots of research and thinking leads to lots of scattered notes. To get control of the notes, I put every note into an MS Word outline, which becomes huge. Ahhhhh, sighhh: Every single note in order, every idea at hand. Nothing is lost, nothing is (too far) out of place, and all is at my fingertips. Actually, when I've done this, the paper is essentially written, a nearly-finished first draft in this long outline, needing only to connect the dots and clean up the prose, transitions etc..

	3.) Glossary of Terms. If you do a fairly specialized project theme, like environmental law, or Watergate Scandal, or Pioneer Push-cart design and operation, then you might need to explain so many terms that it makes your prose cumbersome. And if some people are likely to know most terms, and some not, it becomes difficult to decide what to explain in your text. A Glossary of Terms is one solution. In this part, you can define push-cart axles, sun bonnets and hat, varnish, steel-rims on the wheels and the forges that make and repair them , virtues of oak over pine for this or that, blister remedies, etc. Cool thing about web-projects and glossaries is that you can link the first usage of a term directly to your glossary: very handy.