Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/CSU Northridge/LING 403 Morphology (Fall 2016)

In this course, we look into the structure of—and into attempts to define—the word, whose internal structure and structural relations with other words are better (but hardly thoroughly) understood than the very notion of “word” itself. Is 'don't', for example, one or two words, and is the 'n’t' more like 'not' or more like the '–ing' in 'doing'? And what does it mean to say that 'iriarualiunga', which translates from Central Alaskan Yu’pik roughly as ‘I am making a doll’ is not just a sentence, but a word? And how do we classify the '–aholic' in 'chocoholic', or understand how words like 'blog' on the one hand, or 'app' and 'truthiness' on the other are created? The focus for students in this Morphology course is both to understand the range of questions that the field of linguistics asks about speakers’ knowledge of word structure in any language and how this knowledge relates both to phonology and to syntax, and begin to apply the methods used to find and understand the answers. But importantly as well, our goal is also to learn how to ask questions about the nature of speakers’ knowledge in these areas, and what sorts of data provide us with fruitful and productive answers, which themselves are likely to lead to more questions…

Week 11
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

To get started, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia


 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
 * When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.

Week 12
Individually or as a group of 2-3:

Select an article to work on from the Articles tab above, or review the Category:Linguistic morphology stubs  article list and select one from there. If you select one from the &quot;Stubs&quot; list, please clear it with me, first.

When you've selected your article, go to the Students tab above and assign yourself the topic. If you want to work in groups, both group members should assign themselves the article topic.

Because it's possible that more than one person will sign up for an article individually and some people will sign up as groups, I'll need to figure out how that's working. But as soon as three people have chosen an article, I'll need to do some figuring out.

Groups should be no more than 2-3 people.

And before next week, there will be an explanation of what you'll do with the article you select, so that you can ask any questions you may have about what that assignment is asking you to do, and what's expected.

Individually:

Review the Editing Wikipedia articles on Linguistics handout.

Take the Sandboxes &amp; Mainspace training below.

Week 13
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate your Wikipedia article, and look both at the Talk page and at the article itself.


 * Individually, complete the &quot;Evaluating Articles and Sources&quot; training (linked below).
 * Complete an article critique, consider these following seven questions (and the subquestions they include):


 * What is the &quot;grade,&quot; if any, that the article has.  What is its indicated importance?
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Where does the information come from? Do these seem to be neutral sources? Choose three sources cited, and find them yourself.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?  If your answer is &quot;yes,&quot; (a) indicate what viewpoint(s) you think might qualify as overrepresented,  and (b) what viewpoint you think might be underrepresented.  What leads you to this conclusion?
 * Check four citations. Do the links work?  Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
 * Select and list up to three major topics or issues raised about the article from the Talk page related to the article.   Do you agree with what the contributors say, or not?  Why?


 * Use your &quot;sandbox&quot; as the place to (a) answer the questions above and (b) find and add a particular citation for an issue or topic that you think is not sufficiently discussed or illuminated.  Then, please, copy and paste what you have put into your sandbox into a document and email it to me by 3:00pm on November 8, with the subject line &quot;LING 403_Wiki&quot;  You'll email this together with what is requested under &quot;Week 5&quot; and &quot;Week 6&quot; below, as well.  Although these are listed in separate weeks, they're part of the overall assignment.


 * Please don't hesitate to contact me or our one of our Content Experts.

Week 14

 * Individually, complete the trainings below.
 * When you're ready, craft 2-5 new sentences in your sandbox, that you think should be added to the article, or edit a section that you believe requires editing.  Provide a reliable source in support of your addition or editing, as you learned to do in the online training.
 * The source may be text you've discovered, or one cited in our textbook that you searched out yourself, or that you found in the materials presented on Moodle.
 * If you want help from our Content Expert, don't forget to use the Get Help button above.   And please, keep in email touch with me.

Week 15
To get credit for this assignment, you must turn in an assignment evaluation that includes the following:


 * your full article critique (copied and pasted from your sandbox)
 * the added sentences or edited sentences and the sources for them that you would add to the article (copied and pasted from your sandbox)
 * a 1-2 paragraph reflection on why you felt your contribution would be valuable and what it would contribute to the article
 * As noted above, please email this document to me [sharon.klein@undefinedcsun.edu] by 3:00pm on 12/08/2016.