Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Eastern Michigan University/CRM620 Controversies in Policing (Fall)

This course will expose students to a variety of controversial issues relating to the police. Specifically, the course will focus on community policing, police discretionary powers, police use of force, police corruption, racial profiling, the police role in crime rates, gender and policing, and “high profile” crimes.

Week 4
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.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Week 7
Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Exercise
Add a citation

Week 8
Copyedit an article

Week 9
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Cultural Anthropology

History

LGBT+ Studies

Political Science

Sociology

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 10
Guiding framework

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 11
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

Once your work is live, 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.

Exercise: Add links to your article

Week 13
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! Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.

Guiding questions

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