Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Florida Atlantic University/ENC 1939 with Emily (Fall 2019)

Students will study academic writing skills (especially critical reading skills, rhetorical strategies, and research methods) and deploy them beyond the classroom in different local writing genres (The Hoot, Wikipedia, and newspapers). Academic and non-academic readings in the assigned genres of writing will be assigned as models.

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

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 6
Choose your topic / Find your sources

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Copyedit an article

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8
Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 9
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.

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

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

Nominating your article for Did You Know

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.

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!

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!

Guiding questions

Week 11
A Wikipedia article is like an academic literature review: the writer researches what others have said about the subject, vets their sources, and summarizes the most important information. The purpose of a Wikipedia article or a literature review is always to inform, never to persuade. Wikipedia contributors summarize what experts have said in peer-reviewed academic journals and other fact-checked sources in the most unbiased ways they can.

This assignment asks you to take the next step: to persuade. Using the research your group did together on your subject, write a 2-page paper in MLA format that presents an argument.

Check Canvas for further details.

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