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Storybook Introduction and Navigation

This assignment has two parts.

Part One: Final revisions to Introduction. If you have been doing revisions to your Introduction with each new story, you may not need to make any changes. If, however, you have not been working on the Introduction consistently all semester, you may have a lot of work to do now. Here are the important things you need to make sure you do this week:

• Image. If you had not previously added an image to your Introduction page, please make sure that you add an image now, with Image Information.
• Links. For EACH story in your Storybook, there must be a link to the story from the Introduction.
• Story blurbs. For EACH story, there must be some discussion of the story in the Introduction - it can be a short, one-sentence blurb about the story, or perhaps a full paragraph. It all depends on your topic and the style you have chosen for your Introduction.
• Mission accomplished! When you are talking about yourself as the author and your Storybook, you need to change the language in your Introduction to reflect what your Storybook does (present tense or perfect tense), not what you hope or plan to do (future, subjunctive). In other words, instead of saying, "I will collect (blah blah blah)," you need to say "I have collected (blah blah blah)." If you are talking about the reader, however, you can use the future tense: "In this Storybook, you will find (blah blah blah)."
• Length. The text of your Introduction needs to be between 600 and 1200 words in length (including any frametale material on the Introduction page). By the time you add in blurbs about all four stories, you should not have any trouble meeting this length requirement.

Part Two: Site navigation. Please click through ALL the links at your Storybook to make sure they are functioning properly, and fix any links that are broken. A good way to do this is to make a list of broken links that you find on each page and THEN open Composer and fix all the links. It's much easier to fix all the broken links at once rather than fixing them one by one.

When you have finished these revisions, notify the instructor by email. In the email, you MUST cut-and-paste the questions below, and confirm that the answer to all the questions is "yes" before you turn in the assignment. You do not have to put a "yes" next to each one; it's fine if you say "answer to all is yes," or something like that. Please give the email a subject line based on the class you are enrolled in ("MythFolklore Storybook Final Introduction" - "World Literature Storybook Final Introduction" - "Indian Epics Storybook Final Introduction").

[NOTE: In order to complete this assignment, you must have published at least two stories in your Storybook; if you have not completed two stories, you are not eligible to complete this assignment and will receive no credit.]