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Course name
Composition II 11am
Institution
UMass Boston
Instructor
Dan Messier
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
English
Course dates
2019-09-03 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-12-12 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
16


Composition II is a course in inquiry-based research writing. It is designed to prepare students for their upper level courses by introducing principles of research and tactics for effective communication in academia. Students will create or revise a Wikipedia article of their choosing to learn about genre, research, citation requirements, revision, and collaboration in writing.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Amanda Larson
Maxbates3
VBockarie
Nahida.content001
Tatiannap18
NanahAma
Josseline06
Colleen.mcdonald003
AmadMoney
Lukastukatuka
Melissaprum
Popcorn143
Chikwan Li
JVPrec
Nanashanice

Timeline

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 24 September 2019   |   Thursday, 26 September 2019
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment, 9/24

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:


Assignment - Homework
Create a Wikipedia account and join this course

Everyone should come to class on Thursday, September 26, having already created a Wikipedia account. We'll do the "Wikipedia Policies" training in class Thursday.


Assignment - Planning Your Wikipedia Contribution

Today, we'll start thinking through how to find the spot where you can make a contribution to Wikipedia.

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 1 October 2019   |   Thursday, 3 October 2019
Assignment - Learning How to Wiki, 10/1

Today, we're learning how Wikipedia pages work and how to edit in your own Wikipedia sandbox.

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 8 October 2019   |   Thursday, 10 October 2019
Assignment - Learning Wikipedia Citing Conventions, 10/8
Assignment - Homework
Choose a Topic

Using the guidelines from the exercise above, select which Wikipedia article you'd like to improve.


Assignment - Getting Your Draft Contribution Ready
Milestones

Everyone, by now, should have begun writing their drafts of their Wikipedia contributions. Those drafts are due (in your Wikipedia sandbox) on October 15.

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 15 October 2019   |   Thursday, 17 October 2019
Assignment - Peer review two articles

Guiding framework

Milestones

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


Assignment - Respond to your peer review

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.


Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace." Use the training module above to help you to move your work from your Sandbox to the live Wikipedia page that you're working on improving -- so that anyone else on the internet can see your contribution (and continue to edit it). Don't worry -- even if your work gets changed or removed, Wikipedia saves all prior edits, so I'll still be able to see what you've done. 

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 22 October 2019   |   Thursday, 24 October 2019
Assignment - Reflective Essay

See Schoology for details.

Milestones

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