Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Environ 320 Environmental Journalism (Emilia Askari)

Course information

 * University: University of Michigan
 * Course title: Environ/NRE 320 ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM: REPORTING ABOUT SCIENCE, POLICY AND PUBLIC HEALTH
 * Professor name: Emilia Askari
 * Professor's Wikipedia username:
 * Course start date: September 4, 2012
 * Assignment due date:

Course description
This class has two objectives. The first is to introduce students to basic research and writing skills needed to communicate with the public about emerging environmental and health issues. The second is to help students understand the opportunities created by the revolutionary changes taking place in the way society defines, creates and shares information about the environment and public health. Students will practice journalistic writing, a genre that emphasizes succinct, non-fiction articles. Journalistic writing differs markedly in style from academic writing, yet many of our past students have found that learning to write like a journalist has improved their ability to write for academic audiences as well. You can think of the interviews you will conduct for this course as similar to the research that academics conduct before writing their papers.

Wikipedia assignment
Students will contribute biography pages of a person whose work impacts the environment or associated public health problems. Students will create new pages and will edit existing pages when necessary.

Student usernames
Student usernames should follow the ExampleUser format below.

Articles
This table will list each the articles that the students will be working on. Please sign your username (3~) next to your topic. And create the link to the Sandbox to draft your article in the Sandbox secion. If a page already exist in Wikipedia on the topic you are working on, please post a link in the Current page column. Otherwise, write N/A there.

Student resources
Presentation on Wikipedia Editing by and ChemLibrarian

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