Your group will need to incorporate at least eight credible sources into your research paper, and Wikipedia will not count as one of those sources. Someone may summarize and paraphrase the Wikipedia entry as a blog post, and if you use that information in the paper, you will need to cite Wikipedia. However, Wikipedia needs to be the ninth source.
With four-member groups, each person only needs to complete two blog posts on your topic--if the sources are from reliable sources (SIRS, Infotrac, credible universities and news agencies) and contain enough information for people to use.
You may also use upcoming outside reading blog posts as a two for one assignment. If you look at your blogging assignments sheet, you will notice that the English 10 teachers purposefully put some topics that would somewhat overlap with your research issues. Post # 11 (global issue), #12 (imperialism), and #13 (war) might apply to your research paper topic. If you do use an outside reading post for one of your two research posts, simply indicate Research blog #1/Outside reading blog#13 on the post so that I can see where you are using a two-fer.
Remember that all outside reading blogs and all research paper blogs need to have MLA citation and a hot link to the original Internet source.
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