Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/York College of Pennsylvania/Digital Writing (Fall 2021)

This 300-level course introduces undergraduate students to theories and practices related to writing in a digital culture. This course focuses on digital writing from the perspective of rhetoric, writing, and linguistics scholarship.

In this unit, students will draw from rhetoric, writing, and linguistics scholarship either authored by underrepresented scholars (e.g., undergraduate researchers, non-white and non-western researchers) or about underrepresented social groups to fill in gaps in Wikipedia's content. Students will be learning about the importance of citation for the creation of knowledge and for equity in knowledge-making communities. Additionally, by contributing to Wikipedia, they will learn about the current practices for collaborative, distributed knowledge creation via wikis. This assignment will engage students in summarizing secondary research, identifying and filling gaps, writing for non-academic audiences, optimizing content for search engines, and editing.

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.)

Week 2
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

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

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.

Week 6
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

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.

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!