Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/James Madison University/Professional Editing (S16)
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- Course name
- Professional Editing
- Institution
- James Madison University
- Instructor
- Cynthia Martin
- Wikipedia Expert
- Adam (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication
- Course dates
- 2016-02-16 – 2016-05-06
- Approximate number of student editors
- 19
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 16 February 2016 | Thursday, 18 February 2016
- In class - Wikipedia essentials
- Overview of the course
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
Handout: Editing Wikipedia
- Assignment - Learn the basics
- Begin the training modules assigned for your course. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016 | Thursday, 25 February 2016
- Assignment - Copyedit an article
- Choose one article, identify ways in which you can improve and correct its language and grammar, and make the appropriate changes. (You do not need to alter the article's content.)