User:GenEthicsProf/Genetical Ethics Fall 2019

Genetical Ethics, PCB4085 / GMS6221 is a course at the University of Florida covering presentation and critical discussion of relevant topics pertaining to ethics, science policy, and translation in genetics research. Responsible conduct of research is also covered.

Contents

1	Wikipedia Assignment

1.1	Assignment 1: Get Started

1.2	Assignment 2: Explore Wikipedia: read and think about a featured article, think about your topic

1.3	Assignment 3: Choose your topic and begin writing in your sandbox

1.4	Assignment 4: First Contribution

1.5	Assignment 5: First peer review

1.6	Assignment 6: Second contribution

1.7	Assignment 7: Second peer review

1.8	Assignment 8: Final contribution

2	Further resources 3	Notes Wikipedia Assignment[edit source] This will be a semester-long assignment, with milestones at various times to help ensure that progress is being made.

Students will work individually to edit one Wikipedia article, and will act as a peer reviewer for two other articles. The goal of the assignment is to make a substantive contribution to a Wikipedia article on a topic of Signal Transduction. Pick an article that is central to the topic of ethics and genetics, that way we can have the maximum impact to improve the quality of genetical ethics information online.

Students should, as much as possible, help each other out with questions about how to do things on Wikipedia. You should communicate the Wikipedia way -- on user talk pages, and article talk pages. If you still have a question or a problem, don't hesitate to contact our Online Ambassadors.

Assignment 1: Get Started[edit source] When is it due? Wednesday, 28 August, 11:59 pm - Allow about 2 hours, plus extra time in case you get confused or distracted.

What do I do? In this first unit, you will be introduced to Wikipedia, set up an account, your user page, and a pretend article in your "sandbox". If you get stuck editing Wikipedia, you can always ask a question at the Teahouse.

Go through the online student orientation. Parts of this assignment will be completed while you are going through the training module. It is important that you also learn the basic rules of Wikipedia. Allow about an hour for this. Please read WP:STUDENTS. Allow about 10 minutes for this. Create an account on Wikipedia. 5 minutes or less. Enroll in the course on Wikipedia as follows: Go to the course page. Click on the "Enroll" tab at the top of the page. Enter the Enrollment Token provided in your Syllabus and follow any other instructions. Make sure that your User Name appears in the list of students at the bottom of the course page. If it does not, check the top of the page to make sure that there is no statement indicating that you are looking at a cached copy of the page. If you are, click the link to update. This might take a few minutes Create your user page (so that your user name is no longer red like this). Make sure there is a link (see WP:CHEAT for basic linking advice) to the course page at the top. Your user page can be as simple as copy and pasting this: I'm editing Wikipedia as part of this assignment and here's a link to my sandbox. This can take less than a minute, just fill in "Your user name" with your user name and feel free to personalize. Create your sandbox with a pretend article. Practice using brief edit summaries for each edit. Make a first sentence with bold letters, like Wikipedia articles. Add a reference section. Cite a source. Add a picture. Add a section heading. Use a PMID and this tool (many are listed at Help:Citation tools) to create a formatted template. Put that in ref tags. See WP:CHEAT for help and here for more details on citing this way. This should take anywhere from 5 (for an experienced editor) to maybe 20 minutes (for a first-timer).

⚠ '''Remember to always make sure that you are logged in whenever you work on Wikipedia. This is the only way you can get credit for your edits!!'''

What will be graded? You should be enrolled as a Student on the course page, your user page should link to the course page, and your sandbox should contain at least one sentence with a bolded title, one formatted reference in cite journal format, and one possibly relevant picture. (5% of total project grade).