Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Grand View University/Journal Club (Fall)

This course helps prepare students for their future graduate studies and/or careers in Biology. It will cover methods and techniques to develop scientific literacy, through reading and evaluation of primary literature. By the end of the course, students will be able to read, understand, and analyze scientific articles and will be able to synthesize a coherent review based upon the papers they read.

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.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 5
Genes and Proteins

Species

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

Week 9
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 10
Every student has completed a Literature Analysis Worksheet for publication #1

Every student has talked to their peer about what they are adding to their wikiarticles and posted their 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 11
It's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Find and Complete Presentation Activity  posted to Blackboard in the &quot; Retrieval, Presentation and LitWs#2 Activities&quot;  folder.

Find and Complete Literature Retrieval Activity posted to Blackboard in the &quot; Retrieval, Presentation and LitWs#2 Activities&quot;  folder.

Find and Start Working on Literature Worsheet #2 posted to Blackboard in the &quot; Retrieval, Presentation and LitWs#2 Activities&quot;  folder.

Week 12
Complete the Literature Workheet #2 Activity posted to Blackboard in the &quot;Retrieval, Presentation and LitWs#2 Activities&quot; folder.

It's the final week to develop your article.

Week 13
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

Every student complete the final quiz (literature analysis worksheet #3) posted to Blackboard using the provided publication.