Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Providence College/English 101-021 (Fall 2016)
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- Course name
- English 101-021
- Institution
- Providence College
- Instructor
- Ilisabeth Bornstein
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Writing Seminar
- Course dates
- 2016-10-27 00:00:00 UTC – 2016-11-14 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 18
Writing seminar
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 27 October 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 - Create your account, join dashboard, and complete Editing Basics
- Create an account, join our class dashboard, 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.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 31 October 2016 | Thursday, 3 November 2016
- Assignment - Wikipedia Essentials
Complete training module for introduction to Essentials of Wikipedia
- Assignment - Critique an article
- 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.
- Evaluate an existing Wikipedia article and leave 1-2 suggestions for improving it on the article's talk page.
- SUGGESTION - Pick a topic you already know a lot about, such as your hometown or your high school.
- A few questions to consider (don't feel limited to these):
- Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
- Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
- Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
- Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
- Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
- Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
- Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
Resources: Evaluating Wikipedia, [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Using_talk_pages.pdf Using Talk Pages
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Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 7 November 2016 | Thursday, 10 November 2016
- Assignment - Add to an article
- Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with citation to an appropriate source, to the Wikipedia article you commented on for the Talk page.
- Complete trainings, below
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 14 November 2016
- Assignment - Reflection paper
A 1250 word reflection on your experience with Wikipedia. See class handout for more information.