Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Saint Mary's College/WiSEWiki CHEM 342 (Spring 2020)

Your Saint Mary's College education is unique. Through the Sophia program, you have the opportunity to discuss topics with your Science and Engineering faculty and peers which are important to your success, but are not part of a traditional chemistry curriculum. In this course, you will take advantage of the opportunities opened up by the Sophia program. You will read scientific articles about a softer side of Science and Engineering - the social constructs and biases that we deal with every day in our profession. You will explore implicit biases and consider the theories of stereotype threat and imposture syndrome. Most importantly, you will explore strategies to combat the effects of these social constructs. As a significant part of this project, you will research a scientist who represents a group that is underrepresented in science, and you will contribute to a Wikipedia article about them.

Week 2
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.

Read these 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

This discussion will be in th format of a google doc (click here). Please make sure you are signed into your Saint Mary's College google account so that you can see the document and edit it. There are instructions on this document that you should read and follow carefully in order to recive credit for this assignment.

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 3
Choose your topic / Find your sources

This discussion will be in the format of a  google doc (click here). Please make sure you are signed into your Saint Mary's College google account so that you can see the document and edit it. There are instructions on this document that you should read and follow carefully in order to recive credit for this assignment.

What's a content gap?

Biographies

Chemistry

Exercise
Add a citation

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 5
Guiding framework

This discussion will be in the format of a  google doc (click here). Please make sure you are signed into your Saint Mary's College google account so that you can see the document and edit it. There are instructions on this document that you should read and follow carefully in order to recive credit for this assignment.

Thinking about Wikipedia

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.

Week 6
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

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!

Week 7
Guiding questions

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, and be ready for grading.