Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Texas AM University Corpus Christi/HIST 4390 Mexican American Women's History (Spring 2021)

This is an undergraduate-level survey of Mexican American Women’s history from the 20th century to the present. Students will learn about the emergence of the field and gain a broad understanding of its evolving historiography over the last three decades. Students will explore the social, political, economic and cultural trends within the context of Mexican American women’s life experiences. Using the broad themes of the borderlands, immigration, labor, citizenship, sexuality, popular culture, education, and politics students will utilize these in order to better interrogate those experiences. The course is designed to help students better understand the various experiences and perspectives of Mexican American women across space and time.

As future scholars, students will use Wikipedia to contribute their understanding of this complex history via a public platform, and share their knowledge with a real world audience.

Week 3
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.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 4
Choose your topic / Find your sources

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 5
What's a content gap?

History

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

Exercise
Add a citation

Wikipedia Scholars Project Topic Proposal 

due via the course Blackboard by 11:59 pm on Thursday, March 16th 



If you plan to work individually, please let me know the following information in complete paragraphs. The more detailed your responses  are to the prompts provided, enables me to better understand the direction you plan to take your research and what you will; contribute to the public’s knowledge of Mexican American Women’s historical experiences and contributions.



Individual Research Plan 



What topic do you plan to research? Why?

Why is this topic historically significant? Provide some background.

What course theme(s) will  your Wikpedia article/entry, research emphasize?



If you plan to work with a group, you must write this proposal collaboratively and answer the following questions:



Group Research Plan 



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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2c2c2c; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Each of you will need to explain why your individual topics are historically significant?

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Everyone has begun gathering source materials and identifying content gaps on Wikipedia.

Week 8
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 9
Sunday, April 4th: Your Wikipedia Scholars Project Preliminary Research Log and Working Bibliography due via the course Blackboard Page by 11:59 pm. See the folder entitled, TAMU-CC Wikipedia Scholars under the Assignments link on Blackboard to retrieve the Research Log Template.

Nominating your article for Did You Know

Week 10
As you work toward completing your reserach and have located scholarly articles to help support your contributions to Wikipedia, now is the time to begin drafting your article contributions using the template provided on Blackboard under TAMU-CC Wikipedia Scholars Project.

Exercise
Add links to your article

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 11
The goal of this week is for you to begin asking a peer or two for feedback to improve your draft based on others' feedback. It's also time to for you to revisit how to move your work live onto Wikipedia - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

You may also ask Marquez for feedback and support as well!

Week 12
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 13
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.

Tuesday, April 27th: Submit your second, more polished draft via the course Blackboard page by 11:59 pm.

Week 14
<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;">By next Tuesday, everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

Tuesday, May 4th Final Draft of Wikipedia Entry due on Article Page/Blackboard due by 11:59 pm

<span style="text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: inherit; font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">--Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.

--   <span style="text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: inherit; font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!