First and foremost, good luck finishing up your <Public Argument projects>! Please remember to submit your peer review sheets in class on Tuesday (3/19).
This serves as a reminder that you will need to be in touch with all members of your <Wikipedia working team> (if you haven't already) and start generating the following in your Google Drive workspace, due by 11:00 a.m. on 3/21/13:
- A potential outline for our shared topic ("multimodality" for public discourse and/or writing and editing in the public sphere). Please be as detailed as you would like, outlining not only a possible top structure for the article, but possible subtopics as well. If you are uncertain of how detailed the organization can be, feel free to review Wikipedia pages on similar or related topics, as well as the project pages from <SA #4>, from our <Skype discussion> with Dr. Wadewitz, and from our earlier class discussions. (See also Wikipedia project pages on <Article Development>, <Article Creation>, and <Featured Articles>.)
- A brief reading list or list of sources that represent not only what you have read and what you think will feasibly contribute to the topic, but also sources you may have come across from other classes, from the bibliographies of what we have already read, or new sources you have discovered on your own.
I must be able to review all group contributions on 3/21 so that we can have a working plan in place by 3/26, the following week.
This is part of your process work for the Wikipedia project, and the onus is on all of us to do it well. All phases of the project should involve source gathering and exploration, so that we make the best writing and editing decisions. Work hard, but have fun with it! The more efficiently you work together, the better able I am to work with your team.
Finally, I'd like to check in with team leaders during the week of 3/26, so if your team has not designated a leader yet, please do that soon!
Looking forward to it,
-Prof. Graban
