Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Moravian University/Digital Rhetoric and Writing (Spring 2022)

In this course, students rhetorically analyze established and emerging digital genres in order to gain the theoretical and practical background necessary to approach the production of writing for digital platforms. The main project of the course during the Spring 2022 semester will focus on not only analyzing Wikipedia articles and writing for Wikipedia, but also ending the semester with a public presentation about the power of Wikipedia in contemporary knowledge production about our campus's InFocus topics of Health and Healthcare; War, Peace, and a Just Society; and Environmental Sustainability (https://www.moravian.edu/infocus/about-infocus).

Week 5
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 7
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

Week 8
Complete these trainings and exercise by 11:59 PM on Tuesday, March 15.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6; Complete this training and exercise by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, March 16.

Choose one of the questions posed in this discussion prompt and answer it on the Week 9 Discussion Board on Canvas by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, March 16. Then respond to at least two classmates' posts by 4:00 PM on Thursday, March 17.

Start this exercise before your one on one meeting with me on Thursday, March 15. Come to the meeting prepared to discuss your Wikipedia article choice(s), your rhetoric or communication-oriented content gap area regarding your InFocus topic you want to fill on the article(s), and at least one scholarly peer-reviewed source from a Moravian University library database related directly to your topic. Do not proceed to Week 10 assignments until after our meeting on Thursday.

Week 9
Before our Zoom class meeting on Tuesday, March 22, please complete an annotated bibliograpy for a minimum of five sources connected with your Wikipedia article topic. The annotated biblography requirements are available in the Week 10 Module on the English 218 Canvas site.

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

Choose one of the questions posed in this discussion prompt and answer it on the Week 10 Discussion Board on Canvas by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, March 23. Then respond to at least two classmates' posts by 4:00 PM on Thursday, March 24.

Biographies

Books

Environmental Sciences

Films

LGBT+ Studies

Science Communication

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 10
Guiding framework

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

Choose one of the questions posed in this discussion prompt and answer it on the Week 10 Discussion Board on Canvas by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, March 30. Then respond to at least two classmates' posts by 4:00 PM on Thursday, March 31.

Continue your blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. In particular you can share what you are learning from your research on your InFocus topic as you go along. Create at least one blog entry—minimum ~200 words—on your WordPress site each week during the Wikipedia assignment.

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. This should be done by class time on Thursday, March 31.

Resources:


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

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot; We're going to go through this together in class on Thursday, March 31. You can attempt to do this before class time, but you do not have to.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 11
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!

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia for English 218.

Week 13
Remix the research conducted for your Wikipedia article to advance your own ideas about your topic.