Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Arkansas State University/ENG3053 (Spring 2020)

An undergraduate course in the theory and production of digital writing, for English majors and Writing Studies minors.

In the first month of the course, students will produce Twine games, to introduce them to markup language.

Then, from weeks 5 - 15 (Feb 10 - May 4), students will produce their own Wikipedia pages, editing from stubs and/or (with WikiEdu support) writing new pages about areas of their own personal or academic interest. In preparation, they will complete all of the relevant WikiEdu training modules, evaluate existing Wikipedia pages, go through a proposal process, submit an evolving annotated bibliography several times, and undergo peer review.

Meanwhile, they will study Wikipedia (reading articles about its reliability, demographics, neutrality, etc., and writing short papers about their findings) and Internet language more generally (reading Gretchen McCullogh's Because Internet, among other things), conducting small class language surveys and experiments.

Week 5
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 7
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 9
In the &quot;Bibliography&quot; section of your sandbox, write 150+ words about four potential sources for your article. In each entry, (1) summarize the source, (2) evaluate it according to Wikipedia's guidelines, and (3) explain what you find most useful about it.

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 10
By 11 am on Fri 3/20, you should have a rough draft of your article ready for peer review in your sandbox.

Guiding framework

Week 11
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 12
By the end of the day on Friday 4/17, you should have completed your &quot;Moving work out of the sandbox&quot; training, and your article should be in &quot;near final draft&quot; stage (i.e. ready for feedback from me, close to ready to move out of the sandbox).

If you've already moved your article out of your sandbox, please leave a note at the top of your sandbox page letting me know you've done so. That way, I'll know to look at the article on the wiki mainspace to give you feedback.

I'll leave feedback on the talk page for your sandbox article draft.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 13
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 14
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 15
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!