Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Alaska Anchorage/LING A201 (Fall 2019)

An introductory course on grammatical structure, with a primary focus on English. On Wikipedia, students will improve an article on a subject related to a topic relating to grammar, such as (but not limited to) an individual or a grammatical term.

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.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the  Get Help  button at the top of this page.

Week 2

 * Editing Wikipedia (especially pages 1–5)
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

You have two parallel projects in this course this semesterand one involves working with Wikipedia. You will complete much of it on this site.For this assignment, you need to do three things:


 * 1) Create a Wikipedia account
 * 2) Register with the course on the WikiEdu site
 * 3) Let me know you have done so

To create a Wikipedia account: First of all, if you already have a Wikipedia account, you can choose to use that one (which case you’re done with this step) or to create a new one specifically for this class project. To create an account simply go to the WikiEdu dashboard, make sure you’re logged in with the account you’re using for this course, click on “sign up with Wikipedia”, and follow the instructions.

To register with this course on WikiEdu: First go to the WikiEdu dashboard (the link is at the top of this page) and—this is important!—make sure that you’re signed in with the Wikipedia account you’ll use for this project. When you are prompted for your name, please give your actual name—I’ll need that to easily connect you with your contributions (and thus give you credit for them). Click “find your course” and search for “LING A201”. Make sure that you click the Fall 2019 section, and in the page that comes up click the button that says “join course”. The passcode you will need is on the Blackboard site for the course.

To let me know you’ve completed this: Write (legibly!) your Wikipedia login ID down and turn it in enclosed in a 9×12 envelope. (You will also be turning in the academic integrity quiz certificate at the same time, so you can turn them in using the same envelope, and in fact you can simply write your Wikipedia ID on the certificate to save paper, if you’d like.)

Week 3

 * Who gets to be an expert on Wikipedia?

Complete these training modules by the deadline listed in the syllabus.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Complete the training and then do the exercise (actually doing the “optional” part of it, no matter how it’s labelled).

Week 7
This assignment requires you to take a steps to make sure you’re set up to use library resources (particularly RefWorks and interlibrary loan). You will turn in your evidence for that on paper, as described in the full assignment outline.

Week 9
For this assignment, you are to do two things: First, complete this training, and second, demonstrate that you can use library databases by using them to find the following items:


 * My PhD dissertation
 * Any scholarly peer-reviewed article I have written without any co-authors
 * Any scholarly peer-reviewed article I have co-written (i.e., with co-authors)
 * Any scholarly peer-reviewed journal article by Anne Charity Hudley, with or without co-authors
 * Any scholarly peer-reviewed article co-written by Naomi Shin and Ricardo Otheguy (with or without additional co-authors)
 * A newspaper article about some aspect of pronunciation you find interesting

You are to hand in your list of citations on paper.

Exercise
Choose a topicFinalize your topic/Find your sources

This one’s slightly complicated, so be careful;

At or before the deadline for the assignment listed in the syllabus, do the following (preferably in this order):


 * Complete the training titled “Finding Your Article”.
 * Complete the exercise titled &quot;Choose a Topic”, but in addition to using your sandbox to list 3 to 5 possible articles you can add citations to (see below for guidelines), send me a message via Blackboard listing them, including both titles and URLs

Then, as soon as practical after I send your assigned article to you (within a week after your submission, hopefully sooner), you are to take the steps outlined in the exercise titled “Finalize Your Topic/Find Your Sources” to assign your article to yourself.

Guidelines for selecting an article: It needs to be one that deals with some aspect of grammar (which could be an issue of grammatical conventions, or theoretical morphology or syntax, or an individual associated with grammar in some clear way—basically, I’m suggesting that you cast a wide net here), and it needs to be something that could do with more citations (since, at core, what you’re going to be doing is adding citations to articles, whether that’s because you add citations to existing items that need them, or you add new information that is backed by citations you include).

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 12
Linguistics

Complete the training modules and read the guidelines above.

Exercise
Add a citation

Complete the training module and read through the exercise above by the deadline in the syllabus.

Note that you are not required to add any citations yet—you will ultimately have to add three to an article, but that can wait a bit. The exercise associated with this assignment, however, gives some useful ideas for how to go about it.

Week 16
Add a citation

You are to complete this exercise by the deadline in the syllabus, adding three citations (and any additional/changed text that might be necessary to go along with them) to your assigned article.

Thinking about Wikipedia

Go through the module aove, and write a brief (up to 400 words) reflection on the assignment. Begin your essay by stating the title of your assigned article, and then answer the following as completely as you can, given the length limit:


 * How did you find your assigned article?
 * Do you feel you learned anything about that article’s topic?
 * If yes, what was the most interesting thing you learned? If not, why do you think the assignment series didn’t result in that?
 * How easy or difficult was it to find sources that you could use to strengthen the article?
 * What do you think made it so easy or hard?