User:OWStein/sandbox

Guideline for Mock Wikipedia Project: (20%) The text of the article is well crafted, organized, concise, and 'tight', with no extraneous information, and written in a manner appropriate for the intended audience (non-experts coming to the topic for the first time). The article itself should be no more than 750-1,000 words in length. Shorter is better, so long as you get the main point across. This is an encyclopedia article, not a research term paper. See the Wikipedia Core Content policies. (20%) Embedded media are appropriate and support the article in a useful manner while exploiting the potentialities of the online environment. (At least two items are required, e.g. two figures, or one figure and one embedded video.) See, for example, Arola, Sheppard and Ball A guide to making multimodal projects (on reserve at Swem). (20%) Appropriate citation style and formatting are used (check the wikipedia guidelines). No figures, videos, or animations are used without proper citations. No copyrighted material are used without proper permission. Wikimedia Commons materials are cited using the proper format and information on sources. (20%) Hotlinks are all done in an easy-to-follow, coherent, and attractive manner. They point to high-quality sources and useful sites where the interested reader can find more information. Fewer high-quality links are better than many links that show little or no evaluation of quality. Remember that an encyclopedia article is a portal, and you are helping the reader take the first step down a path. Point them in the right direction, don't waste their time, and don't send them off on a wild goose chase. Treat your readers the way you would like to be treated. (20%) Each team will also hand in a reflective narrative summarizing choices they made in the layout of the web page, figures, animation, or embedded video. Why did you organize the layout of the site in the way you did? Why did you use these multimedia options, not others you found along the way, and why do you think these multimedia inserts enhance the text of the article? As part of this narrative, in order to explain the choice of sources used, an annotated bibliography should be included. Check out sites like the ones at Cornell or Purdue to get ideas. (Thanks to Lauren Goode for suggesting these sites.)