Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Auburn University Montgomery/English Comp I - ENGL 1010A, CRN 3360 (Summer 2019)

Students will do an introduction to editing Wikipedia, write an article on a volume of poetry and one or more on a &quot;local&quot; topic.

Week 1
Do all this before class.

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (If you don't do this before class, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account.)

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
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Choose your topic / Find your sources

Read James Purdy, &quot;Wikipedia is Good For You?&quot;

Exercise
Add a citation

This is to be done before class time: do the training module, and add a citation to a reliable source to a Wikipedia article. We'll do another one in class.

Read Randall McClure, Googlepedia.

What's a content gap?

What you are doing in this section is straightforward: write an article on one of the books of poetry awarded the TS Eliot prize; see this article, T._S._Eliot_Prize. Because these books have won a major literary prize they are notable by Wikipedia's standards, so there is no problem there. By now you will have been given a title: get to work by a. finding the reliable sources, b. look at what such an article needs to look like, and c. start writing it up in your sandbox.

For examples, look at The_Dream_Songs, Lord_Weary%27s_Castle, Turtle_Island_(book).

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

Week 4
Pick an interesting article from Wikipedia before class and give it a good read. You'll review it in class.

Guiding framework

Today the first article is due: we'll move it into main space today. Each of you will evaluate one of those articles, on the talk page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 5
Today we are going over the assignment for the second article, which is on a topic of your choosing--but you must choose carefully. My suggestion is you write about something from your world, like Freedom Rides_Museum, Redoshi, and Evangelical Lutheran Church (Enkhuizen). We will talk about notability standards (type in &quot;WP:N&quot; in the Wikipedia search box, and then &quot;WP:GNG&quot;), and about sourcing (type in &quot;WP:RS&quot;).

Biographies

Books

History

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

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. Respond to that review and improve your article: I will start grading on Wednesday.

Resources:


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

Week 6
Thinking about Wikipedia

Bring an article to class (printed out on paper) on Wikipedia's reliability OR on some Wikipedia &quot;scandal&quot;. This is in preparation for the big argumentative paper.

Nominating your article for Did You Know

Today, you must have a draft of your &quot;local&quot; article, in a sandbox. Make sure that your sources are listed/referenced in the draft; if you have paper/book sources, bring them to class plz.

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.

Read Rebecca Jones, &quot;Finding the Good Argument&quot;. Expect a reading quiz.

Bring a rough draft of your argumentative paper. Bring another article to class (printed out on paper) on Wikipedia's reliability OR on some Wikipedia &quot;scandal&quot;. By now you should have at least two; remember that you need at least three.

Week 8
It's the final week to develop your &quot;local&quot; 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!
 * For in-class discussion, read Irvin, &quot;What is Academic Writing?&quot;

Bring a draft--as clean and complete as possible--of your argumentative paper. We will do peer review in class. In addition, we'll look over the portfolio guidelines. By now you should also have written the two &quot;reflections&quot; assignments, which are to be included in the portfolio.

Week 9
Read Dasbender, &quot;Critical Thinking in College Writing&quot; (you must make reference to this in your essay).

Bring your finished portfolio: the in-class essay is the last thing you'll stick in there.