Saturday, April 11, 2009

Collaboration space: The Arab conquests

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  1. DavidApril 14, 2009 at 9:26 AM

    Hey guys, I'm working on the forth topic from the syllabus. If your working on the same one or even a similar question like number three, maybe we could share some ideas. Also I'm cool with meeting in person somewhere if that makes communication on subjects a little easier. My E-mail is dhmorris@wisc.edu

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  2. UnknownApril 14, 2009 at 5:04 PM

    Hey, I am also working on the fourth topic. My e-mail is lbackes@wisc.edu if you would like to share ideas.

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  3. AnonymousApril 14, 2009 at 8:11 PM

    Hey I was just wondering how anyone is going to outline #3. Are you going to get specific with each structure that Chamberlain put into the topic? I think I'm going to limit mine to a certain area, but I don't know if this is the best approach. Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas?

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  4. DavidApril 15, 2009 at 2:47 AM

    I'm not doing the third topic but I think it depends on how much information you can pull out from the sources provided. If you feel that you need to include all of them to have a concise paper that covers all the aspects of the problem, then go right ahead and write on all of them. Just make sure you tie them all together and have good transitions.

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  5. AnonymousApril 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM

    Are most of you trying to limit your paper to a certain specific location (i.e. Syria or Iraq). Any recommended JSTOR articles?

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  6. AnonymousApril 16, 2009 at 1:15 AM

    Hey,
    I'm working on the fourth topic. Shoot me an email if you want to talk.
    gdwarner@wisc.edu

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  7. AnonymousApril 16, 2009 at 7:52 PM

    I found that it was easier to concentrate on a specific place, like Iraq. It is almost easier to write with this specific area in mind, because searching for "iraq" in indexes has actually been quite helpful. Also, books that I have found seemt to write a chapter about one place and then move on to another place, so all of the info about a specific place is in one area. I would recommend doing it this way.

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  8. Michael ChamberlainApril 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    Yes, concentrating on Iraq is a good idea, as the sources are better on it than elsewhere. You also have Morony's very important book to work off of.

    Narrowing topics down: I know that when you propose topics you are often urged to narrow it down, but the suggested paper topics don't permit this very well. They work very well on their own. Of course you will be concentrating on some issues more than others, but I would keep the over-all issue the same.

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  9. Kevin BargnesApril 20, 2009 at 8:58 PM

    If anybody wants to chat back and forth about this one, email me at bargnes@gmail.com.

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