Talk:Hurricane recovery in North Carolina
Midterm Wikipedia Assignment Comments
Jack's Group:
Article structure is well organized. Good work in putting together the citations, though I see only about 10 references. Please make sure to have adequate citations from library sources (journal articles and books) for all sections. Your article will lose points without good references to back up your writing.
I also see a number of inaccuracies in the section contents. In particular, the section on 'Funding for Recovery' uses data from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This stimulus funding is for economic recovery, different from funding sources for disaster recovery (which is appropriated by Congress and disbursed through FEMA). Content accuracy will be very important in your final article, so do get your information sources and references correct.
REMEMBER, the next part of your assignment will be graded individually, so make sure that everyone logs in and does writing on Wikipedia. I am looking forward to the first draft as you guys flesh it out.
(Emplanning (talk) 15:42, 16 March 2012 (UTC))
Student Section
Hey guys, Just wanted to test out starting the talk page, Joesph mentioned we should go ahead and begin getting five sources each. I think that is a good idea since we will be graded on having around 20 sources. The outline and references are due on March 1st. I still think six headers with about two paragraphs each would work well. [ Agencies responsible for implementation, Recovery plans and policy, Environmental impact and rebuilding (3 paragraphs), Planning and Development Recovery (one paragraph), and funding. (That is only five).] Like I noted, we could delegate more paragraphs to a section that would likely have more info and less to one that we would probably find less research on. I think we should each be kind of going in a direction for research so that we do not all end up with the same five great sources. Let me know what you all think about assigning topics to find sources for and what topics we each would want to do. Please feel free to add topics to the ones I suggested! Thanks! Mstewartj (talk) 19:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Jack's, I completely agree with the direction we've began to develop. March 1st is going to get here fairly quickly and we have to have some other things completed for that date. That being said, I think we should try and meet on Tuesday or during the day Thursday (if the assignment is due @ midnight) and go over what we've gathered individually. I really can't meet on Wednesday b/c I have class/meetings from 1-9pm. I could meet Tue. after 330 or Thursday from 1230-230 or 4-6. I think it would really help us organize our work and make sure we don't have anything redundant. As far as the actual project I like the 5 topics Stewart previously mentioned. My only worry is that Recovery plans and policy, and rebuilding are to similar to Planning and Development Recovery. We could have a section on past hurricanes and anything that was innovative or unsuccessful in their recovery. I think funding can be 2 paragraphs b/c we could talk about State programs and their funding, as well as Federal programs and what it takes to receive these funds. I would also like to volunteer to work on the environmental impact section and another subject that people don't want. We could also maybe add in a section on non-profit groups and the role they play in recovery. Not sure if there is a lot of research on their impact but it could at least be added in somewhere. Let me know what you guys think about meeting prior to the due date and what times would work for y'all. Thanks. --Moym11 (talk) 03:47, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
I have a few sites that I thought would be helpful and interesting to view:
http://southeastfarmpress.com/government/north-carolina-offers-hurricane-hotline-growers
http://outerbanksvoice.com/tag/hurricane-irene/
http://fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=9175
http://www.nfipiservice.com/stakeholder/pdf/bulletin/w-11115.txt
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=20565
I am able to meet Monday and tuesday after 5, wednesday all day, and Thursday after 12:15 but I will be leaving for Tennessee that thursday evening so the sooner we could meet on that day would be best for me. Also we could talk about a more enviornmental view of hurricane effects that North Carolina would have to deal with such as How the forests are affected, how the continental shelf is affected, and how the aquatic life is affected by hurricanes. Just some more ideas to be thrown into the mix, I am open for anything. Although if we did choose a paragraph on environmental damage and recovery i would like to do the research for it. Thanks. --Atkinsonb08 (talk) 16:54, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for posting back guys! The outline will not have to be long, and I feel once we have a definite selection of the topics we will be golden for that. I think the 22 sources will be the more time consuming part. Matt, I agree the Planning Development and recovery will be similar to the recovery plans and policy. Good catch. I was thinking development recovery as in the moratoriums we found that day researching in the libraray, but we could just add that into the plans and policy section. I agree for the fudning include state and federal. The non-profit is a great idea, would we want to include that into the agencies section? Byron: we did suggest to include the environmental impact as a section, but Matt also volunteered for that in his post, so you guys may want to post back about making it two serpearte environmental topics( impact and then rebuilding?) or however you two would like to decide. We will obviously need to do the outline together, unless just one of us does it. But we can do the sources indivdually if we delegate the headings. Unless we add another header, this is the basic of our page; Agencies- (four paragrapghs-federal,state,local,non-profit) Recovery plans and policy-(two paragraphs) Environmental impact and rebuilding-(I think if matt or byron just rolled with it we could have four paragraphs on it? maybe the hurricane history you both mentioned in here as one of the paragraphs?) Funding- (Two paragraphs-state and local) As is- this would be twelve paragraphs. and four headers, which would work out nicely if we each were responsible for one section? Let me know if you think this is fair? If we agree to that then we would each just be responsible to finding the five sources prior to meeting before the deadline. As for meeting, tuesday after five seems to work for both matt and byron, and I say sooner the better so that is my vote! Thanksss! Mstewartj (talk) 18:34, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
I actually have something I have to do Tuesday @ 6pm until probably 7 or 730. I would still be willing to meet after that if you guys would want. I know that's a bit late and y'all might not live near campus. We don't have to meet in the library though if you guys think the meeting would be more of a delegation and outlining session, rather than doing actual research. The other option would be to meet today around 8pm. Sorry these are late times but my schedule just keeps getting more and more full haha. Also, has anyone got ahold of Joe about when he would be able to meet? Let me know about the meeting.--Moym11 (talk) 17:05, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys! I have some new sources and I think a better direction for my section with help from the Reference desk at joyner. If you guys are still looking for some good info just send them an email about a consultation. They are super helpful. Hopefully I will have the stuff they have directed me towards more put together for Sunday! Byron set up a meeting for Sunday, see you all there! Just wanted to let you know about their help. Mstewartj (talk) 19:54, 29 March 2012 (UTC)