Calendar Post for October 9 and 12

• We will not be meeting on Friday thanks to the English Department's Reading Days, a chance to focus on studying instead of attending class.

• Following Wednesday's orientation at the Morgan Library, tomorrow presents a good opportunity to meet with your fellow group members, update one another on your research progress, and adjust your group's question-at-issue as necessary.

• As of Friday, each group member should be (1) aware of what "more specific question" or aspect of the group's inquiry he or she is pursuing, (2) finding a mixture of popular and academic sources to annotate, and (3) entering those sources and the "stakeholders" contained therein in a research log and a stakeholder matrix (distributed at the Morgan Library and now available at drop.io).

• To arrange a meeting on Friday or over the weekend, find your group members' e-mail addresses on our Writing Studio forums page. There, by Wednesday, many of you posted a 150 to 200-word summary of one group member's orientation toward your question-at-issue. Group members should reply to those summaries by Friday, telling us whether the writer has accurately described your perspective and background. Look for more instructions on our forums page.

• During your group's meeting, visit our course's new College Composition wiki, where each group will be composing a "critical introduction" to the sources it annotates (a total of 10 or 15 annotations, or five for each group member). We'll talk more about wikis and what this introduction should look like on Monday. In the meantime, look for an invitation in your inbox to establish an account at Wikispaces.com. This will allow you to edit your group's page, which you'll find listed in our wiki's sidebar. In creating your username, please use your first initial and last name or your first and last name only.
  

• We'll meet back in our usual classroom on Monday. Plan on bringing drafts of annotations for at least one academic and two popular sources. Recall that a sample annotation has been posted to drop.io. Update: the full assignment handout is now also available.
  

• Also bring to class Thomas P.M. Barnett's "Six Ways to Cool Down Over the Climate-Change Security Scare" as well as John M. Broder's "Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security." Both texts have been posted to drop.io.

• E-mail Raul (see "Contact" in the sidebar) with any questions.