Dear All:
Our GDrive workspace won't be sufficient for us to do the kind of real-time workshop we need to do today with optional participation, so I will plan to merge today's workshop with next week's peer review into a single class session. Some of you are nervous about our timeline, but you need not be.
Please just bring Style and Working with Words to class on Tuesday (11/25) since you will be working individually and in groups out of both texts. I'll devote the first 30 minutes of Tuesday's class to our workshop on making authoritative claims that don't overstep Wikipedia's neutral-point-of-view policy (i.e., emphasis, rhythm and grace), and then I'll devote the latter 45 minutes of Tuesday's class to a peer review of our Wikipedia article in progress, which will by then be uploaded into a Wiki "sandbox" space. At that time, we'll also divvy up editing and formatting responsibilities so that each group has a task going into the final week.
What this means for today: If you can (given the circumstances), please make use of the time to finish up your respective sections of the article. All teams please note that I have inserted a note to you inside your GDrive working space, mainly suggesting global coherence statements, since I now have an idea of how all your pieces are coming together. It's coming along fine, believe it or not, but some teams are much further along than others; soon, we all need to catch up to each other, and I believe Teams 4 and 5 still have some merging of sections to work out.
Later today or tonight, I plan to move all of your completed sections outside of GDrive and into a Wiki sandbox space, so it's important that you have a full draft completed, and that your endnotes and sources are there. Moving it into the Wiki sandbox doesn't mean we can't continue to work on it; it just means that it's time for us to merge all sections together and start treating it as a whole, so please use today's time well if you can.
And as always, I'm here and in my office if you need me and I'm always available online for questions.
Many thanks, and have a good day today and a good weekend. Be safe and well, and see you Tuesday,
-Prof. Graban
