Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Cincinnati /English 2089 Intermediate Composition (Fall )

Information literacy, research, cultural studies, genre inquiry, mainstream science discourse and reporting

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.

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.

Exercise
Select an article for Evaluation

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 3
Choose your topic / Find your sources

What's a content gap?

Biographies

Cultural Anthropology

Environmental Sciences

Films

History

LGBT+ Studies

Political Science

Science Communication

Sociology

Women's Studies

Exercise
Add a citation

Week 5
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

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6
Peer Reviewing Wikipedia Articles

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

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 7
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