Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/SHSU/NGLI 1101 Research in the Digital Age (Spring )

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This course provides students with key strategies to efficiently search online academic, popular, and professional resources and evaluate their credibility. Students will learn to evaluate and interpret visual information such as charts, graphs, diagrams, and infographics. The skills learned from this class will prepare students to be faster and more effective researchers for every academic class.

The method for learning and practicing information literacy will be through accessing, evaluating, and creating information for Wikipedia.

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Week 1
Make sure you're signed up for an account in the course. When you click on &quot;students&quot; above in the links toolbar, make sure you see your name &amp; user name listed.

Follow the Timeline here. Do NOT move into Training at the top and complete things until you are instructed. You may be required to repeat things because there is an order and method to what will be released and when.

Week 3
There are instructions on what to do in this training as well as under &quot;Wikipedia Items&quot; in Unit 3. Completing the training in itself is worth 10 pts, answering the questions listed in the pdf file in the NGLI Course is worth 100 points. You will complete the questions and include the title and link to your article you evaluate in your sandbox, so follow instructions!

Week 4
You must complete the training as well as the instructions provided on the Wikipedia Item in Unit 4. You will need to turn in the list of articles you find in the methods shown to you in the training module and submit them on Blackboard under Wikipedia Items.

Week 5
You need to follow the steps in &quot;Drafting in the sandbox&quot; tutorial and actually practice what they tell you in your sandbox.

Week 6
Copy Edit an Article

Go to one of the Wikipedia  articles you were approved to work on and read through what is on the page.

Make a sandbox section called &quot; Copyedit  an Article&quot;;  Include the link and title of your article.

Copy paragraphs you find to fix into your Sandbox.

To help clarify what I want you to do with copyediting, it's the following:

You take your article that you're going to work on and copy a couple of paragraphs (or more) into your Sandbox in a new section (there are instructions to follow on the Timeline --make sure to look at those too).


 * You are going to double check spelling (you could copy &amp; paste the text into Word and use the spell check) and
 * see if you notice any grammar errors (you could use the Grammarly  tool if you're not confident of your skills)
 * Can you rephrase anything that was written to make it more concise or help clarify the meaning, if it was unclear before.
 * Are there links in the paragraph and do they work? Do they take the reader to the proper page/website/etc ?  If not, can you figure out where they should go?  If you can't, just note that they're not working properly.
 * Do the paragraphs make sense as they are separated or should there be a new paragraph in certain places, or perhaps should paragraphs be combined?
 * Does the content in these paragraphs make sense?  Is it relevant to the topic?  Should it be a separate topic? Or perhaps should it have a separate heading?  Does the content make sense where it is located in the article?
 * Make your edits in your sandbox in bold &amp; a different colour so I can see what your improvements were.

I'm not looking for perfection, but I'm looking for you to try and work on your current literacy skills and apply them here to this article. There may be very little you have to do, which is great--but there is always room for improvement, so look to see where you can help.

Week 7
Exercise: Add a Citation:  (30  <span class="mceItemHiddenSpellWord" style="outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; background: url('/courses/SHSU/img/wline.gif') left bottom repeat-x; cursor: default; text-shadow: none !important;">pts <span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: inherit; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">)  IMPORTANT: Follow the instructions listed in the exercise -- you will need to find at least one source related to the article you are going to work on. Also, you will need to go into your sandbox, create a section called &quot;Bibliography&quot; and  a. paste the link to the <span class="mceItemHidden" style="outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; text-shadow: none !important;"><span class="mceItemHiddenSpellWord" style="outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; background: url('/courses/SHSU/img/wline.gif') left bottom repeat-x; cursor: default; text-shadow: none !important;">Wikipedia article and identify it as &quot;Add a Citation exercise&quot;; b. copy the sentences you added to the article (if you added any) and then c. paste the citation you created, in proper APA formatting, into the sandbox.

Week 8
<span style="outline: 0px; font-size: medium; text-shadow: none !important;">Sandbox copy edit Part 2:

<span style="outline: 0px; font-size: medium; text-shadow: none !important;">In your sandbox on the Wikipedia course page https://bit(.)ly/2QAmLc4 where you created an area and copy-edited a piece of the already-existing Wikipedia article that you selected to work on, you will return to that sandbox and

<span style="outline: 0px; font-size: medium; text-shadow: none !important;">a. copy over 3-5 paragraphs from the original article.

<span style="outline: 0px; font-size: medium; text-shadow: none !important;">b. copyedit in your sandbox.

<span style="outline: 0px; font-size: medium; text-shadow: none !important;"> 1. check links to ensure they're working properly. If they're not, see if you can find the correct link and update it in your sandbox, otherwise, mark the items red.

<span style="outline: 0px; font-size: medium; text-shadow: none !important;">  2. check spelling &amp; grammar. Make edits as appropriate. Note your changes by using red text.

<span style="outline: 0px; font-size: medium; text-shadow: none !important;"> 3. check to see that the work makes sense--if there are pieces that are too confusing to fix because you're unsure of what's being said, highlight the text with red.

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<span style="outline: 0px; font-size: medium; text-shadow: none !important;">Nothing is needed to turn in here--I will be able to review your completion on the Wikipedia Course Page. You will need to complete this step and earn your grade before the next unit will open. If you turn this piece in late, you will need to contact me so that I can find and grade your Wikipedia work and open the unit for you.

<span style="outline: 0px; font-size: medium; text-shadow: none !important;">Worth 25 points.

Week 9

 * 1) In your Sandbox, create a Bold Header that says Part C - Wikipedia
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; color: #000000; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-shadow: none !important;">Go to the full  Wikipedia<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; color: #000000; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-shadow: none !important;"> article you selected to work on.
 * 3) Find a place in the article that
 * 4) * a. it is noted that a citation is needed or
 * 5) * b. a place that raises a question in your mind (or could) on whether or not something is factual/accurate.
 * 6) Copy that information, including the citation provided if one is there, into your Sandbox under the header you created.
 * 7) If you go with<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 600; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;"> option a from Step 3, <span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;"> include:
 * 8) * a citation to support the information; and
 * 9) * If you think the statement is wrong after you've found some sources, then correct the statement
 * 10) ** this may mean deleting it
 * 11) ** Or this may mean fixing the whole paragraph or just tweaking a sentence.
 * 12) If you decided to go with option b. from Step 3:


 * 1) * See if you can find 2-3 sources to back up the information.
 * 2) * Use the evaluation skills you're learning to determine if the source you found is relevant and reliable.
 * 3) After your corrections, CITE in APA style the citations used (and number them, and also note if you chose option a or b):
 * 4) * Put the number of the citations down and list:
 * 5) ** what type of resource it is (primary, secondary, tertiary)  as well as whether it is academic, scholarly, or popular.
 * 6) ** This is where you will put your reasoning for selecting the sources, 2-3 sentences per citation (why do you think it is important that this citation be used).

Week 11
1. Go to your Sandbox where you are working on your article.

2. In Bold, create a section called Wikipedia Part D.

3. Go back to the article and read through it. What questions arise after having read the piece? What information do you want to know as a reader or as a researcher?

4. In your sandbox, answer the questions in Step 3.

5. Now, using the skills you've learned in this Unit and previous units, create

a. set of search terms (keywords, boolean operators, statements) and list them.

6.  Use your Google power user skills to find relevant results.

7.  Select 2-3 websites that are relevant to the research. Put links to them in your Wikipedia Part D section.

a. explain why each of the sites you have selected are relevant

b. explain how you determined each of these sites are reliable/credible source material

c.  Cite each website in APA style

d. If you did not find relevant websites, then go into the Library databases as you learned about in previous units and try a search there

e.  Make sure to correctly cite the articles you find in APA style.

8.  Summarise the information you've found and how it relates to the Wikipedia article you're working on.

9.  Look back at the original Wikipedia entry you're working on, and figure out where in the article would be the best place to weave in your new information.

10.  Copy &amp; paste the 2-3 sentences of the original Wikipedia article that would come before your additional information and put it into your Sandbox

11. Copy &amp; paste the 2-3 sentences of the original Wikipedia article that would come after your additional information and put it into your Sandbox

You have now, hopefully, completed part D of your Wikipedia final project. This will count as 20 points for the assignment now, and then will count for 50 points of the final project once this information is moved live onto Wikipedia.