Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Auburn University at Montgomery/Successful Writing (F2019)

ENG3050 explores the practice &amp; theory of expository writing. The focus of this course will be both exploratory and practical application, with an emphasis on the nature of knowledge and the role of rhetoric. Attention will be given to practical applications, including research writing and writing for special rhetorical situations: Wikipedia. We will use the Wikipedia Education site as the central hub for our critical thinking and writing

Week 3
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.)

Using our Blackboard Course Blog space, b egin your weekly blog with an entry about your previous experiences with Wikipedia as a source for knowlede building. (You will add at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Art History

Books

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

History

LGBT+ Studies

Medicine

Political Science

Psychology

Science Communication

Sociology

Women's Studies

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 7
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 8
Guiding framework

We'll do this in class in a few weeks.

Week 9
Collaboratively deciding upon gaps and revisions to an article can help reveal the types of information and credibility support desired by readers of Wikipedia. Use this week's collaborative exercise in &quot;finding and filling the gaps&quot; as a way to practice the type of editing and resourcing you'll be doing in your individual article creations. Consider your peers' suggestions, and together discuss ways you would edit your group draft to make those changes. No need to actually make the changes - your goal this week is to explore and find resources based on your discussion of &quot;gaps.&quot;

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 6-8
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
 * Templates: Evaluate Article &amp; Template: Bibliography

Week 10
These are for review and to help you work on your article sources this week

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 12
Review one classmate's article draft and provide feedback in the Sandbox's Talk Page. Prior to doing so, review the material below and then use this as your Peer Review checklist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org_peer_review

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 13
Refer to our Writer/Designer text readings to add / edit appropriate multimodal elements. Citation is important!

Week 14
Everyone should have finished all of the preliminary work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for revising the final drafts for grading.

We are down to the final weeks 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!

Guiding questions