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Course name
Digital Rhetorics and Literacies
Institution
Ohio University Zanesville
Instructor
Matthew Vetter
Wikipedia Expert
Adam (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Writing and Rhetoric II
Course dates
2016-01-11 – 2016-04-22
Approximate number of student editors
18


Welcome to Writing & Rhetoric II – Digital Rhetorics & Literacies. The design of this course emerges from the assumption that learning writing and rhetoric in the 21st century should include digital literacies that innovations in technology over the last 30 years have brought about. The goals for this course are centered on improving our writing, reading, and critical thinking abilities, but we will also consider what it means to be "literate" during this time in history when texts, and they ways we write and read them, are undergoing massive changes.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Bh603612 Linda Cohn, Rozonda Thomas, Sammi Giancola
Jdayem
Iesha92 Orthopaedic Nurse Certified, Virginia Henderson
Ap935713 Diane Crump
Ms976312 Gender roles among the indigenous peoples of North America
Ac161907 30% Club, Georgette Mulheir
28doodles Georgia Pellegrini
Kw159713 Certified Nurse Midwife, Holistic nursing, Home health nursing
Sl616912 Adeline Pond Adams, Lotte Tarp, Martha Laurens Ramsay, Roberta A. Ballard
Abjenk Ashley Nicoll-Holzer, Cathy Gannon, Christine Cushing
Rb526115 Women in Nursing, Women in Rodeo
Mc545412 Patricia Benner
Lexyschell Alex Chidiac, Merissa Aguilleira
Livi787 Kris Jenner, Versace

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Monday, 7 March 2016   |   Wednesday, 9 March 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
  • Complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.

Week 2

Course meetings
Monday, 14 March 2016   |   Wednesday, 16 March 2016
In class - Proposals

Introduce Proposal Assignment. 
Explore Wikiprojects, looking for gaps/opportunities to edit.

In class - Readings on Gender Gap

Cohen, "Define Gender Gap?"
Wadewitz, "Wikipedia's Gender Gap and the Complicated Reality of Systemic Bias"

Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 21 March 2016   |   Wednesday, 23 March 2016
In class - Workshop Project 3 Proposals

In-class workshop of student proposals. Review possible edits and sources. 

Assignment - Student Training

Students complete "Sandboxes and Mainspace" and "Sources and Citation" training modules. 

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 28 March 2016   |   Wednesday, 30 March 2016
In class - Research

Finding sources for articles; in-class work on Annotated Bibliographies

In class - Editing

In-class editing on your targeted articles. 

Assignment - Final Edits and Reflection

Final edits and reflection due by class 4/6. Brief presentations on article edits.