Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Georgetown University/The Rhetoric of Health and Wellness (Spring 2023)

This is a first year writing course in which we engage with the rhetoric and discourses of health and wellness, guided by a recognition of the political nature of health inequities, and links to historical oppression of diverse groups.

Honing a critical approach to what is referred to as the Medical Industrial Complex, we will engage with wikipedia as an important site in which ideas and messaging around concepts are recycled and perpetuated. This is inclusive of -but not limited to- shortcomings in representation of marginalized groups and interests on the platform.

Our engagement with wikipedia will be multi faceted, attending to genre, technology, community, and media as well as content.

Week 6
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

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

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.)

Week 8
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 9
MEDRS

Today we'll meet in affinity groups and begin to narrow down a short list of options for each group with explanations as to why these articles are on your list.

Week 10
For 3/20's class make sure you've completed the &quot;building your bibliography&quot; exercise so that you can have a running start to keeping track of your sources as you proceed.

By 3/20's class, you will want to complete, collectively, in your group's Collaborations Doc an evaluation and analysis of your chosen article and its content gaps.

You can review the training module from earlier (dropped into here, but you've all already completed it) to remind yourself of what to keep an eye out for.

You'll want to think about:


 * what is missing?
 * what do you feel is important and meaningful to add?
 * what might need to be removed or cut (and why?)?
 * does something need to be reorganized?
 * what needs updating?
 * what related Wiki articles and content do you want to keep in mind, to create a channel of connection/information infrastructure?

Then, you can begin to outline a schematic plan of changes and additions your group will plan to make and who will take the lead on what.

Especially: what do you need to research? (since we'll be researching on Monday)

During and following our library research day, you'll flesh out a research and editing plan with each group member's tasks clearly identified.

This is in preparation for crafting and posting your Talk page comment next week, and also for your own benefit and organization!

In a discussion post on Canvas, you'll share your research findings as a status update, and also as an opportunity to ask questions, share concerns, and anything else.

Week 11
In class you'll post your group's talk page comment! (Monday 3/27)

LGBT+ Studies

Medicine

Psychology

Sociology

Women's Studies

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

We will workshop some sentences in Wednesday's class, thinking about neutral tone and about paraphrasing best practices.

(Weds 3/29)

Research Annotations (on Canvas)

Research Reflections (on Canvas)

Week 12
By Monday 4/3 -- get as much drafting of your individual contributions DONE so that the group can compare notes and make some plans. This class session is also reserved for in-class drafting and consults.

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

THIS IS A BIT OF AN INTERLUDE!

Week 13
Guiding framework

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.

Resources:


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

We have some Genre and Multi-Modality readings to get through ahead of the 17th as you will conceptualize how you will translate and represent your contribution in visual form

Week 14
We'll have a small reading on copyright and image licensing - and/or this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license

Blog Post guidelines &amp; ADDITIONAL DETAILED GUIDELINES

post by group!

Week 15
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

Training Module is for Mon so we can address any questions -- final content live by end of week

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.

We'll take a moment to address Images in our Library return session; it is complicated for Wiki; but less so for blogs.

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!

Week 16
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

USE THESE QUESTIONS to inform your REFLECTIVE PORTFOLIO portion on Genre/Rhetoric (LINKED HERE)