Talk:Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2018-19/Imperialism and IMF

Nov 16: We met and Flora came up with the topic as IMF and imperialism. We formed a group chat in facebook and shared our writings on googledocs.

Nov 22: We met at 2p.m. and wrote the introduction together but not finished. We decided our main argument would be "the IMF is both the cause and symptom of imperialism". The structure of chapter was not decided yet.

Llllliny (discuss • contribs) 19:36, 8 December 2018 (UTC)After the meeting in the group chat, I suggested the introduction is too general about the IMF and our main argument should be put after the basic introduction about IMF and its policy. I also mentioned that we should change the way we argued to indicate our argument was provable instead of taking it as a fact. But no one made comments on my suggestions.

Nov 26: Yongyi and Sheryl talked about the structure of chapter, both expanded the contents we discussed in the meeting and wrote different versions of introduction.

Nov 27: We met again and Flora put the introduction written by Sheryl on the chapter page. We had the problem about how to show interdisciplinarity in our project. We asked Carl and decided to use interdisciplinary approach to analyse the case studies of IMF's interventions - evaluate the imperialist ideas of the IMF in the disciplines of economics, politics and sociology respectively. And we thought two cases - Asian Crisis and Greek-debt crisis would be better to prevent biases. Yongyi suggested we can also put media part to show how the IMF is perceived in mass media. We divided tasks: Yongyi - economics, Flora - politics, Sheryl - sociology. We agreed to finish our own paragraphs before Dec 4.

Llllliny (discuss • contribs) 19:36, 8 December 2018 (UTC)Nov 28: I thought the structure was still not very clear so I asked my personal tutor for suggestions and shared in group chat: 1. Introduction: Argument should come at last in the introduction. And the structure of chapter should be indicated in intro. 2. The media part could be used to introduce the question - IMF as both cause and symptom of imperialism, as the IMF was often criticised in documentary films and cartoons. 3. case studies: we could compare the effects of IMF in different nations in one crisis to show the consistency in the IMF's interventions. Then I reframed the introduction.

Dec 4: We met in the seminar. Flora finished her paragraph of Asian Crisis but not the Greek case and she thought the political part overlapped with economics. Sheryl finished the Greek case and said she did not find enough sources. We discussed and made our aim of the chapter clearer - present the imperialist ideas behind the IMF by analysing its interventions in two case studies from economic, political and sociological perspectives - which is the interdisciplinary idea of our chapter. Then we decided to rewrite our paragraphs according to this aim, finish our own part before Friday then meet to integrate them.

Llllliny (discuss • contribs) 19:36, 8 December 2018 (UTC)As we became uncertain about the interdisciplinary idea behind this topic, I shared my understanding of it with my partners and seminar leader said it's the correct direction. Because of the limited word count, in the group chat I said if it would be better if we only focused on one case study so that we could specify each disciplines more. But they did not respond. After reconsidering I thought it would be fine to keep both to show the comparisons between different cases, and present that although there were differences some ideas were consistent. I changed the references in the economic part in Asian Crisis and rewrote that in the Greek case because it did not show direct relevance to imperialism. I also rewrote the introduction to make it more concise and linked to our aim, wrote the media part, and edited pictures.

Dec 7: All of us finished our paragraphs and worked to integrate them. We looked at each other's parts and edited. Also because of the word count, we had to cut a lot. Then we wrote the conclusion together. So we basically finished the chapter.

Dec 8: Llllliny (discuss • contribs) 19:36, 8 December 2018 (UTC)I changed some of the references and added one more picture. My contributions Sheryl and Yongyi cut the excessive words and Flora also read the chapter over to examine the grammar. Flora's contributions can be accessed through the link:https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Floracho Yongyi's contributions can be accessed through this link:https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Llllliny Sheryl's contributions can be accessed through this link:https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sherylchan30