Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Auburn University/730 Making the Case for STEM Students Spring 2019 (Spring 2019)

This course is designed to help English as a Second Language STEM students succeed in academic courses at Auburn University through a partnership with Wikipedia. Students will develop critical reading and writing abilities with the ultimate purpose of learning how to produce graduate-level, professional writing for Wikipedia contributions. Students will learn to locate, evaluate, and analyze academic sources to use in their Wikipedia pages. Though listening, speaking, and reading skills are not the primary purpose of this class, they will be utilized to produce Wikipedia pages. Extensive peer revision will be employed in addition to teacher feedback and conferences with students to develop, revise, and proofread written submissions. Students will be using Wikipedia throughout the semester to develop succinct and objective writing skills while contributing to or creating articles in related to their specific STEM fields.

Week 2
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

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 3
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.)

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 5
What's a content gap?

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Chemistry

Environmental Sciences

Genes and Proteins

Science Communication

Species

Exercise
Add a citation

Week 7
Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 9
Guiding questions

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

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 10
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Exercise
Add links to your article

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 11
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! By the end of this week you should have something moved from sandbox to live.

Week 12
Guiding questions

Week 13
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!

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.