Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/UMass Boston/Composition II 8am (Fall 2019)

Composition II is a course in inquiry-based research writing. It is designed to prepare students for their upper level courses by introducing principles of research and tactics for effective communication in academia. Students will create or revise a Wikipedia article of their choosing to learn about genre, research, citation requirements, revision, and collaboration in writing.

Week 4
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

Everyone should come to class on Thursday, September 26, having already created a Wikipedia account. We'll do the &quot;Wikipedia Policies&quot; training in class Thursday.

Today, we'll start thinking through how to find the spot where you can make a contribution to Wikipedia.

Week 5
Today, we're learning how Wikipedia pages work and how to edit in your own Wikipedia sandbox.

Week 6
Using the guidelines from the exercise above, select which Wikipedia article you'd like to improve.

Everyone, by now, should have begun writing their drafts of their Wikipedia contributions. Those drafts are due (in your Wikipedia sandbox) on October 15.

Week 7
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.

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot; Use the training module above to help you to move your work from your Sandbox to the live Wikipedia page that you're working on improving -- so that anyone else on the internet can see your contribution (and continue to edit it). Don't worry -- even if your work gets changed or removed, Wikipedia saves all prior edits, so I'll still be able to see what you've done.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 8
See Schoology for details.

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