User:Bellicist/International Law

Course name

International Law

Institution

Alderson Broaddus University

Instructor

Martha Phelps

Subject

International Law

Course dates

2015-04-21 – 2015-05-07

Approximate number of student editors

10

This is an alternate final project for students enrolled in POLS 340: International Law. Students who choose a Wiki Edu final project will be creating an article. Specifically, these articles must correctly link to current issues, theoretical implications, and prominent authors. This assignment should mimic the effort needed for a 20 page paper or a 10 minute podcast. It should include at least eight sources, four of which must be academic and peer-reviewed. This is not an easier alternative than the currently assigned podcast. Not only must students create an article, but they must also show understanding of what other topics need to be linked to the article as a whole.

Timeline

First Steps (2015-04-20): Reading Handouts and Registering

• Handout: Editing Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wiki Education Foundation)
• Handouts: Citing sources on Wikipedia and Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia.
• Handouts: Using Talk Pages handout and Evaluating Wikipedia brochure
• Handouts: Choosing an article

Assignment

• Create an account and then complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
• Create a User page, and then click the "enroll" button on the top left of this course page.
• Explore topics related to your topic area to get a feel for how Wikipedia is organized. What areas seem to be missing? As you explore, make a mental note of articles that will link to your topic.
• Review pages 4-7 of the Evaluating Wikipedia brochure. This will give you a good, brief overview of what to look for in other articles, and what other people will look for in your own.

Milestones

• By 4/22 all students who will be completing this alternate final project have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.

Getting Started (2015-04-25): Moving What You Know Online

Assignment

• Find an empty, stub, or otherwise berifit article to work on and mark the article's talk page with a banner to let other editors know you're working on it. To add the banner, add this code in the top section of the talk page:

{{course assignment | course = User:Bellicist/International Law | term = Spring 2015 }}

• Add a link to your selected article to the table at the bottom of this course page.
• Print the article page this time This may be an empty page. This is fine.
• Upload your existing bibliography from your first podcast to the talk page of the article you are working on.
• Upload the sources you are considering using for this article (formerly podcast) to the the talk page of the article you are working on. Print talk page at this time
• Write an outline of the topic in the form of a standard Wikipedia lead section of 3–4 paragraphs in your sandbox. Wikipedia articles use "summary style", in which the lead section provides a balanced summary of the entire body of the article, with the first sentence serving to define the topic and place it in context. The lead section should summarize, very briefly, each of the main aspects of the topic that will be covered in detail in the rest of the article. Print sandbox at this time
• Continue research in preparation for writing the body of the article.

Milestones

• By 4/25 all students who will be completing this alternate final project have selected articles and listed them on the course page.
• Students have put existing bibliography into the talk page of the article.
• Students have a printed the talk page of their article and printed their sandbox with proposed outline.

Submission (2015-04-28): Moving articles to the main space

Assignment

• Read handout: Moving out of your sandbox
• Reread: Handouts: "Illustrating Wikipedia" (pgs 4-7) and "Evaluating Wikipedia article quality"
• Move your completed sandbox article into main space.
• Print the article page at this time
  • If you are expanding an existing article, copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article.
  • If you are creating a new article, do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow these instructions on how to move your work.
• A general reminder: Don't panic if your contribution disappears, and don't try to force it back in.
  • Check to see if there is an explanation of the edit on the article's talk page. If not, (politely) ask why it was removed.
  • Contact your instructor or Wikipedia Content Expert and let them know.

Milestones

• The wikipedia article will be live.

Professor Grades Wiki Pages (2015-05-07)

Assignment

• Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.
• Students have addressed and replied to all issues and suggestions on their talk page. This can include politely disagreeing or pointing out where the issue was already addressed.

Milestones

• The article is live and complete.
• Students submit prints of the article page before student work started, the talk page once the bibliography was uploaded, their sandbox with the article outline, the first time the article went live, the talk page with all items addressed and replied to, and the final copy of the main article.

Grading

  5%  

   Quality of bibliography and outline

  15%  

   Linkage to related articles (authors, theory, cases, people)

  65%  

   Quality of your main Wikipedia article

  5%  

   Visual Appearance of Wikipedia article

  10% 

   Copy editing/Proof Reading of Wikipedia article