Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Southwestern College/SOCS 230 Honors Applied Social Sciences on Death (Spring 2019)

This course gives students an opportunity to explore ideas from a multitude of academic areas: history, political science, leadership, philosophy, religion, and psychology. Death will be the central issue and the focal point for the entire course. Examination and analysis of the issue will be developed from the material presented in each academic area. The book &quot;Forged in Crisis&quot; by Nancy Koehn streamlines the topic via in-depth portrait of five extraordinary figures—Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, American President Abraham Lincoln, escaped slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and environmental activist Rachel Carson—that illuminates how great leaders are made in times of adversity (death). Wikipedia will help students critically think and stream line their thoughts via adding to content related to the various leaders examined above in this context.

Week 1
Evaluate an article

Add a citation

These exercises will get you thinking more critically about Wikipedia as well as help you to become comfortable with making edits.

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

You will need to create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.

We will be using the Wikipedia biographies of the following individuals as a jumping off point for this assignment. We will not be making edits to these articles directly, but rather finding related topics that need improvement.

Week 2

 * Read through Ernest Shackleton's Wikipedia entry.
 * As you read, pay attention to related subjects linked from the article.
 * Peruse some of these links and choose one to research and write about.
 * In your sandbox, create a section heading entitled &quot;Shackleton Exercise,&quot; and indicate the related topic to which you'll be contributing, sources you'll be using, and the text you'd like to contribute.

Week 3

 * Read through Abraham Lincoln's Wikipedia entry.
 * As you read, pay attention to related subjects linked from the article.
 * Peruse some of these links and choose one to research and write about.
 * In your sandbox, create a section heading entitled &quot;Lincoln Exercise,&quot; and indicate the related topic to which you'll be contributing, sources you'll be using, and the text you'd like to contribute.

Week 4
Peer review:Guiding framework


 * Feb 20- Leadership Wikipedia Sandbox day-Peer review for previous 2 leadership profile entries
 * In your sandbox, repeat the above exercises for Douglass, Carson, and Bonhoeffer
 * We will eventually choose three of these to move into the Wikipedia article main space.

Week 5
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.

Week 6
You should have 3 entries uploaded from sandbox into live Wikipedia