Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering/WRIT 340E FALL 2020 330PM (Fall 2020)

At the end of WRIT 340 students should be able to: • Write for academic, public, and professional audiences. • Demonstrate research and documentation abilities at the upper-division level. • Revise and edit to advanced academic and professional standards. • Prepare and give professional oral presentations for a variety of audiences and purposes. • Articulate the impact engineering has on everyday life. • Work collaboratively to research, write, and present information and ideas. • Write accurate, precise technical prose.

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

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 9
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.

Week 10
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 11
It's the final week to finish your presentation. Your group will meet with the instuctor and discuss the upcoming presentations.

Week 12
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.