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=__Welcome to the English 242 Native Americans in Literature and Film Wiki__!=

Please find individual wiki pages on the left margin. Please do not alter or change anyone else's pages. __**Be sure**__ you are working only on your designated page.

=General Guidelines:= 1. You must all create a wiki page(s) for your project. You will all be receiving “invites” to become members of ENG242NAmLFSP2011 ( http://eng242namlfsp2011.wikispaces.com/ ). Therefore, you must check your school email account in order to become a member and post. 2. You are to collect the appropriate fieldwork (interviews, observations, etc.) and “traditional” data/research, organize into logical categories (you must determine how to arrange those categories and provide justification for those decisions), and then analyze that data based on field observations, classroom material/discussion and your own cultural knowledge, and applicable previous scholarship). 3. You must follow the following format (you may have subheadings under larger categories):  I. Background/History  II. Methodology (parameters of your research)  III. Fieldwork  IV. Analysis/Conclusions  V. Works Cited (minimum 15 sources, limited to three internet).  The methodology and fieldwork are the easy parts. Establishing the context (previous scholarship) and the analysis (how your research informs/reflects local American Indian culture and fits in to the larger academic dialogue that already exists) is the difficult part. 4. All fieldwork and research must be properly cited (MLA) in the Works Cited section. ** Tips/Suggestions ** You can include fieldwork evidence such as personal photographs, audio files, and video files. However, this is NOT a requirement. Your group will be responsible for the entire wiki page you create. Everyone in the group will be graded equally. It is up to each individual group to assign equal workloads and hold each other accountable. This is part of working in a group dynamic, a necessary skill to master. Feel free to be creative in the wiki, but it must remain professional and academic in nature. Be very careful about using material from the internet (including pictures, graphics, etc.). These are typically under copyright protection and cannot be used without permission/credit. Please see me if you have any questions about this. I strongly advise each group to save their material on a file outside of the wiki as a backup (for instance, writing/saving your text in Word as a separate file and then copy/paste that material into the wiki. Grading will be based on the following: Appropriate Research (75); Information provided and how it relates to/reflects local American Indian culture (100); Wiki Design (75).