Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Southwestern University/Biochemistry (Fall 2018)

Biochemistry of nucleic acids. Students will investigate alternative DNA structures and biological consequences.

Week 9
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.)

Once you have your account created, review the &quot;Wikipedia Policies&quot;, &quot;Sandboxes...&quot;, and &quot;How to Edit&quot; trainings.

After you've completed those trainings, start thining about what makes scientific topics good on Wikipedia. Review the &quot;Evaluating Articles&quot; and &quot;Plagiarism&quot; trainings, then eplore related biochemistry topics on Wikipedia and pick a topic to evaluate yourself. Use the exercise below to help you through this evaluation

Exercise
Evaluate an article

After you complete this exercise and these trainings, you should be able to:


 * Explain Wikipedia's policy on plagiarism and copyright violations.
 * Discuss good techniques to avoid close paraphrasing and plagiarism.
 * For additional help, review the discussion prompts below.

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 12


Each group will be assigned a topic related to DNA secondary structure. Use the exercise below to help assign yourself your group topic (HINT: only one group member can select the topic from the &quot;Available article&quot; list, the other group members should manually assign themselves their group topic on the Students tab above.)



Choose your topic / Find your sources



Once your topic has been assigned, use the rest of the exercise slides to help begin your research. The &quot;Drafting as a group&quot; training will walk you through using your Sandboxes to draft your work, and the &quot;Editing health topics&quot; training will ensure we are using appropriate sources when working on health related topics.





Resource:  Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Chemistry

Genes and Proteins

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 13
Each group should have their complete first draft ready in ONE group members Sandbox. This draft needs to be ready for peer review.

Week 14

 * Add your username next to the article you are assigned to peer review.
 * Then, use the &quot;Guiding Framework&quot; to peer review your classmates' drafts. As directed, leave suggestions on on the Talk page of the article, or sandbox, that your fellow student is working on.

Guiding framework

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 15
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

Use the guiding questions below to present about your Wikipedia research process. Your presentation should be 5 min.

Guiding questions

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.

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.