Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Cincinnati/ENGL 1001-15 English Composition (Fall 2019)

For the second unit of the class, you will be writing or editing an article on Wikipedia. This assignment will have several important learning outcomes:

• Firstly, this assignment expands your sense of audience beyond the confines of the classroom. You are not writing just for your professor or your peers, but rather for a public audience.

• Secondly, this assignment will help you understand that research and writing are collaborative activities. As part of a community of writers, you will edit your peers’ work, and they may edit yours. Other editors in the larger Wikipedia community may edit your work, or even take something down completely. Don’t worry: you will be graded and assessed on the quality of your work and what you learn from the process, rather than by what sticks.

• Lastly, you will learn to write an informative encyclopedia entry from a neutral point of view, without original research. You will practice evaluating sources of information for credibility, currency, and accuracy.

Week 5
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

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 6
What's a content gap?

Week 7
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.)

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8
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
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.

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 9
Guiding framework

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.

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

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

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.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Guiding questions

Guiding questions

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