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- Course name
- Global Youth Studies
- Institution
- Drake University
- Instructor
- Prof.Vandegrift
- Subject
- Sociology/Youth Studies
- Course dates
- 2015-08-10 – 2015-12-21
- Approximate number of student editors
- 26
A list of articles suggested for edit and past work is available here
Youth is a category both universal and particular. A period before adulthood has specific meanings as a marked social category. Nations view young adults as the key to the future but also a threat to the current social and political order. Yet being young varies by place, social location, and time. Sometimes, youth are forced to grow up sooner due to national or familial crises; in other settings, their adulthood is delayed because they cannot obtain the resources necessary to be considered an “adult.”
Young adults experience the social order differently from older societal members. They are less tied to the given institutional arrangements and resulting social relationships created before them. Our course explores how young adults around the world share experiences due to global circumstances but also live in unique contexts. Focusing on work and the economy, subcultures, and political activism, we will explore together the experiences of young adult lives.
To demonstrate and share the expertise we develop this semester, we participate as editors in Wikipedia. Very few articles exist in English Wikipedia on youth experiences in specific regions and countries of the world. Many articles about youth tell only the story of youth in the Global North. We seek to disseminate the best possible scholarly materials through working with the Wikipedia community and volunteer editors. Through this effort, we also improve our writing and research skills.
Timeline
Week 1: Getting Started, 1
- In class - Wikipedia essentials
- Overview of the course (Tuesday)
- Description of Global Youth Studies WP project (Tuesday)
- Meet peer editor Kayla
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, overview of Wikipedia (Thursday with Professor Carrie Dunham-LaGree)
This week after first class: Read Handout: Editing Wikipedia. Complete the interactive training
Week 2: Getting Started, 2
- In class - Editing basics
- Basics of editing
- Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
- Collaborating and engaging with the Wiki editing community
- Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments
- Read article possibilities: Class Article Page. Students are eligible to propose their own new article. *Discuss anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
- 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.
Handouts: Using Talk Pages, Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - In Class Thursday
- Practicing the basics
Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself on the user talk page of one of your classmates, who should also be enrolled in the table at the bottom of the page. * Create a User page. * In addition, please read [taps college ambassadors].
Resources: Online Training for Students
- Assignment - Friday Assignments
- 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 seem like good candidates for improvement.
- On your user page, describe the areas of interest for you as connected to Global Youth Studies. Post several candidates for WP articles to edit OR several potential titles for articles to draft. This is a place to brainstorm for feedback.
- Complete one edit of Wikipedia using readings from this week.
- Milestones
All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
Week 3: Topics & Sources
- In class - Exploring the topic area & journal articles
- Be prepared to discuss some of your observations about Wikipedia articles in your topic area that are missing or could use improvement.
- Quiz on key Wikipedia terms
- Discussion of journal articles. Read about [dois] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier)
Handouts: Choosing an article
- Assignment - Due for Thursday
- Edit/Journal Article Download
- Repeat what you did last week: Locate a fact from this week's readings and incorporate. Please do before class. Don't bring a printed copy - just enter your fact in directly and cite it. This is a repeat/repractice of last week's assignment. I will leave five minutes at the end of class to help anyone who needs it. Use proper inline citation. Watchlist the article where you make the changes so you can see what happens.
- Let's discuss the structure of journal articles! Find a peer-reviewed research article using a database or Google scholar. I recommend you find one that fits your research interests. Bring a digital or paper copy to analyze in class. See optional handout on Blackboard in our week 3 course materials. I encourage you to consult with a reference librarian if you are having a hard time finding one.
Handouts: Advice for choosing articles and How to get help
- Assignment - Friday Assignments
- Look at your [watchlist] to see if the article you edited has changed.
- Provide feedback on two classmates' talk pages about the topic ideas they posted on their user page. Use proper formatting: signing properly, hyperlinks where needed, etc.
Week 4: References, sources, topic finalization
- Assignment - Locate References/Get Help
- Meet with a reference librarian and do your own research about the potential themes for your articles. You are working to identify what scholarship exists on your chosen topic and where gaps exist in the existing content on Wikipedia. Begin to keep a list of potential scholarship (peer-reviewed articles, reports, credible news sources, etc.) that you could use as sources.
- In class - Using sources, Topic finalization
- Reexamine the feedback you have received on your user page.
- Discuss the range of topics you will be working on and strategies for researching and writing about them.
- Q&A session with instructor and Wikipedia editors about interacting on Wikipedia and getting started with writing.
- Discuss proposal assignment due Thursday, October 2.
- In-class work over close paraphrasing, plagiarism, and copyright violations on Wikipedia.
Handouts: Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
Week 5: Research Proposal
- Assignment - Thursday
- Project Proposal
- Detailed (3 paragraph) proposal of planned research to revise or write a new article posted on your User Page.
- If you are editing an existing article, please describe the problems with the article you seek the fix, describe new content you are adding, and how you plan to incorporate your changes into a new article. This might mean removing information or creating a better framing of a topic that is currently suffering from systemic bias. Post your intentions to the talk page.
- If you are writing a new article, describe the proposed lead article and content you plan to incoporate. What sources are still missing?
- Prof. V's feedback will inform your finalizing academic sources due later in the semester.
Are you starting a new article? Here are some great tips on starting an article
- In class - Discussion of drafting articles
- Talk about Wikipedia culture and etiquette, and (optionally) revisit the concept of sandboxes and how to use them.
- Discuss your proposals, whether new or revised.
- Assignment - Friday assignment
- User Page Cleanup
- Clean up your user page. Remove old information. User page updates will be evaluated in final draft.
Week 6: Library sources/Feedback
- Assignment - Thursday
- Declare your title and keep working
- Declare your article on our course page and on our class article page
- Begin or continue research in preparation for writing a new article or editing an existing article.
- == Continue research in preparation for writing the body of the article. == Handouts: Uploading images and Evaluating WP article quality
- Assignment - Friday
- Sources
- A list of 5-7 sources on your Wikipedia user page that you will consider working on as your main project. These must be correctly formatted. Send request on Dr. V's and Kayla's talk page for comment. Use their comments to consider how to continue obtaining quality sources for next week’s assignment.
- Milestones
All students have posted finalized or almost finalized sources to be used in drafting article.
Week 7: Creating quality article draft
- In class - Discussion of Draft Process/Questons
- Review of Sandbox concept and general Q&A time. BRING LAPTOP.
- In-class discussion and work time Tuesday.
- Presentation on peer editing by peer editor Kayla Jaczek
Week 8: Writing article draft
- In class - Building articles
- Bring laptop
- Demo uploading images and adding images to articles.
- Share experiences and discuss problems.
Resources: Illustrating Wikipedia and Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Friday
- Lead Paragraph or Improvement Draft & Source Update
- Continue reading the sources for additional information to include in your draft. 'Post three new or three replacement sources (improving on the sources you originally chose, if necessary). Format these using the guidelines found on the citing sources tutorial page
- If you are starting a new article, write your first draft 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.
- If you are improving an existing article, make five substantial updates, revise lead paragraph, and write a summary posted at the top of the sandbox about the changes. Post this summary to the article’s talk page, too.
- Make sure to check that page often to gather any feedback the community might provide.
- Milestones
- All students have started editing articles or writing drafts on Wikipedia.
Week 9: Continue Building Articles and Cleaning Up
- Keep working
- Expand your article into an initial draft of a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
- We'll discuss moving your article out of your sandboxes and into Wikipedia's main space. This will happen at a future date, not today.
Handout: Moving out of your Sandbox
- Assignment - Friday
- Expanding draft
- We'll discuss moving your article out of your sandboxes and into Wikipedia's main space. This will happen at a future date, not today.
- For a new article, you're aiming towards 2000 words of content-with citations-in your Wikipedia sandbox (citations don't count in word length). You should be approaching a completion of your hard first draft.
- If you are editing an article, create four new paragraphs of content and rewrite to fix at least one major problem. Copy edit. Post on the article's talk page a brief description of your plans.You're encouraged to go further - the more you have drafted, the better. You should be approaching a completion of your hard first draft of edits.
- Kayla and Dr. V will give feedback.
Week 10: Article revision towards draft/peer editing
- In class - Thursday in class group suggestions
- As a group, offer suggestions for improving one or two other students' articles, based on your ideas of what makes a solid encyclopedia article.
- Be working on incorporating the edits you received from Prof. Vandegrift before your peers look at your article. Clean up your user page, removing things that no longer are relevant. Archive talk pages, if needed.
- Expand your article into an initial draft of a comprehensive treatment of the topic. You are aiming for 2000 or more of quality material (no filler_. Incorporate feedback. Create a quality lead section. Get your sandbox article ready for peer review before they look at it next Friday.
Week 11: Work on Peer Edits - Nothing Due
- Assignment - Peer Edit
- Peer review two of your classmates' articles as discussed in class on 10/13. Leave suggestions on the talk page of the sandbox article.
- Milestones
- All articles peer reviewed by at least two people in the class.
Week 12: Revise article
- Assignment - Thursday
- Plan final version of your draft
- Summarize the feedback you got on your user page. This will be your guidelines on what you plan to do to edit and complete the draft.
- Make edits to your article based on feedback.
- Create links both within your article and to your article so it is not an orphan article
- In class - Discuss further article improvements
- Continue discussing how the articles can be further improved. Come up with improvement goals for each article.
- Assignment - Friday
- Hard Deadline - First Draft
Over the weekend, your article will be assigned a grade as a draft. Please complete your edits by Friday at midnight.
Week 13: Polish Your Article
- Assignment - Final article
- Add final touches to your Wikipedia article. *Are there copyediting, hyperlinking, or image issues? Not quite correct references? Fix them this week! Did your page have a problem with weasel or peacock words?
Handout: Polishing your article
Week 14: Go live!
- In class - Thursday
- Go Live
In-class check-in and "lab time." Bring your computer to class so we can edit and work. Before you move your article live, please ensure that you have met the standards for avoiding plagiarism. There is a new video from Wikipedia to help Move article live during class - out of the sandbox. Students collaborate to create final edits in live article. Students move their article live.
* Move article out of sandbox and integrated into edited article or posted as original (new) article. * Edit final Wikipedia article using all feedback received. * Create links from other articles to your article. * Make sure all citation links in your article are correct and functional.
- Assignment - Check how article is doing
What feedback have you received?
If your material was cut, try to find out why on the article talk page. Respond to comments and concerns. Work with WP community and Dr. V to create a solution to concerns.
Week 15: Presentations, 1
- In class - Presentations
- Presentations on WP projects. Presentations will be given with 2-3 co-presenters.
- Recommended deadline
Recommended: Post edits by 12/10 and then seeing what happens with the live article. This will guarantee no surprises before 12/19.
Week 16: Presentations, 2
- In class - Presentations
- Presentations on WP projects. Presentations will be given with 2-3 co-presenters.
- Assignment - Hard deadline
- Final draft
The final revisions to your Wikipedia article are due. Recommended: Post edits by 12/10 and then seeing what happens with the live article. The effort at your revisions are worth 15 points. The quality of your final draft is worth 40 points.