Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Stanford Law School/Advanced Legal Research Winter 2020 (Winter)

Advanced legal research covers how to use, research, and find secondary sources, cases, statutes, and regulations. The Wikipedia page will be the students' final project.

Week 1
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. A full assignment description and rubric is available on Canvas.

The deadlines associated with this project are:


 * Tuesday, January 21: Complete the Wikipedia trainings found under &quot;Week 3&quot; on this timeline page. (Note: The trainings linked in other weeks will be helpful, but are not required.)
 * Tuesday, February 4: Submit your topic and a brief explanation on Canvas.
 * Friday, February 21: Submit a link to your page-in-progress to Canvas to indicate that it is ready for peer review. You should have made substantial progress on your page by this point and cite ~10 unique sources.
 * Friday, February 28: Submit reviews for your assigned pages.
 * TBD (either before or after exams, depending on class preference): Submit a link to your completed page, your research log, and a brief reflection on Canvas.

All of these are due by 10pm on the specified day. All except the trainings require you to submit your work or a link to your work on Canvas.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page. They're a good person to contact with questions about editing Wikipedia, or about this Wiki Edu website; for questions about the assignment, please contact your instructors.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Week 3
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.)

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

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 5
Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Submit the topic that you selected to Canvas by Tuesday, February 4, at 10pm. Your topic selection document should include the following:


 * The topic you selected;
 * A link to the topic as it currently exists on Wikipedia (or a note that it doesn’t exist);
 * A short (less than 500 words) explanation on why you chose the topic and why you think it is a worthwhile topic to pursue for this project.
 * Following this submission, we will review and provide feedback and approve your topic. You must get instructor approval for your topic at this stage.

Week 7
At this point, you should have made enough progress on your page for it to be reviewed by other students. Roughly speaking, you should consider 10 unique sources as sufficient to be substantial. You must submit a link to your draft page on Canvas by 10pm on Friday, February 21th.

Week 8
Guiding framework

After submitting a link to your draft page, you'll be randomly assigned two of your classmates' articles to review. Your assigned pages will appear on the Canvas assignment where you submitted your draft page; that's also where you'll find guidelines for your review, and where you'll submit your completed reviews. '''You must submit your completed reviews on Canvas by 10pm on Friday, February 28th. '''

The &quot;Guiding framework&quot; page linked above is created by Wikipedia and contains some suggestions for review. It also asks you to post your reviews on the authors' &quot;User Talk&quot; pages. You can refer to their suggestions and post to the authors' pages, but you don't have to; if you do, just be sure to submit your reviews on Canvas as well.

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.

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.

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

Week 9
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 10
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * To submit your article, upload your research log and a brief reflection on the peer reviews you received to the assignment in Canvas. Don't worry if another Wikipedia user has made (or will make) edits to your article; we'll only be grading based on your own work, whether it &quot;sticks&quot; in the article or not.

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.