This month, we are working to better represent Latin American scholars—Emilia Ferreiro, Luiz Antonio Marcuschi, Paula Carlino, Elvina Narvaja de Anoux, Angela B. Kleiman, Desiree Motta-Roth, and Virginia Zavala—and their key works on both field-specific and vital articles within writing studies.
We aim to work together to address knowledge inequities on Wikipedia as we create and contribute to these articles.
We want to highlight the #1Lib1Ref campaign going on right now. This is an easy way to get involved with Wikipedia editing by contributing one citation.
Our main goals are to . . .
1. Set writing goals: Create achievable goals for contributions to a target article or articles.
2. Coordinate collaboration: Form writing groups of WikiProject Writing participants interested in improving the same article or articles.
3. Combat knowledge inequities: Address content gaps by creating new content with attention to the research and scholarship of marginalized writing studies teacher-scholars.
Take action by...
1. Choosing an article: Head to our article worklist to find an article you'd like to work on.
2. Setting a goal: Edit our 'Setting goals' section with your suggested plan for the month.
3. Collaborate on an article: Use our resources and #1Lib1Ref resources to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, request feedback, and plan monthly goals.
A few of the scholars listed under the article worklist section have pre-existing Wikipedia articles on Spanish and Portuguese Wikipedia. If you are interested in translating these articles to live on English Wikipedia, we have listed a few instructions on how to do so using the Content Translation tool*. This tool allows users to easily translate articles by creating a user-friendly side-by-side display and allows you to easily publish or save your article as a draft when you finish. Here's how to access the tool:
Log into Wikipedia
Click on ‘Beta’ at the top right
Scroll down and click on ‘Content Translation’
Click on ‘Save changes’ on the bottom of the page to save the tool
To start translating an article click on ‘Contributions’ and select ‘Translations’ from the drop down menu
For more information on the Content Translation tool, check out the user manual.
*This tool allows new users to publish translations as a draft on English Wikipedia. If you are an extended confirmed user (accounts at least 30 days old with 500 or more edits), you can automatically publish translations to the English Wikipedia mainspace. We encourage both newcomers and experienced Wikipedians to try it out!
Alongside each biography of an academic we've suggested a few field-specific articles and one general interest, vital article to incorporate their scholarship into. Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement.
Ferreiro, Emilia; Sylvia Schmelkes. (1999). Literacy in Mexico and Central America. Wagner, Daniel A.; Richard L. Venezky; Brian V. Street (Eds.), Literacy: An international handbook; Boulder, CO: Westview Press (pp. 444-447).
Ferreiro, Emilia. (1994). Two literacy histories: A possible dialogue between children and their ancestors. In Keller-Cohen, Deborah (Ed.), Literacy: Interdisciplinary conversations; Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc (pp. 115-128).
Ferreiro, Emilia. (1997). The word out of (conceptual) context. In Pontecorvo, Clotilde (Ed.), Writing development: An interdisciplinary view (Studies in written language and literacy, Vol. 6); Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins (pp. 47-60).
Teaching literacy section needs to be revised with an understanding of reading and writing as closely integrated. There is currently no primary home for an understanding of the teaching of writing (only the teaching of reading).
Marcuschi, Luiz Antônio. "Gêneros textuais: definição e funcionalidade." Gêneros textuais e ensino 2 (2002): 19-36.
Marcuschi, Luiz Antônio, and Antônio Carlos Xavier. Hipertexto e gêneros digitais: novas formas de construção de sentido. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Lucerna, 2005.
Marcuschi, Luiz Antônio. "Gêneros textuais emergentes no contexto da tecnologia digital." Hipertexto e gêneros digitais. Rio de Janeiro: Lucerna 3 (2004).
Marcuschi, Luiz Antônio. "O hipertexto como um novo espaço de escrita em sala de aula." Revista Linguagem & Ensino 4.1 (2001): 79-111.
Carlino, Paula. Escribir, leer, y aprender en la universidad. Una introducción a la alfabetización académica. Fondo de cultura económica, 2005.
Carlino, Paula. "Alfabetización académica diez años después." Revista mexicana de investigación educativa 18.57 (2013): 355-381.
Carlino, Paula. "Alfabetización académica: un cambio necesario, algunas alternativas posibles." Educere 6.20 (2003): 409-420.
Carlino, Paula. "El proceso de escritura académica: cuatro dificultades de la enseñanza universitaria." Educere, Revista Venezolana de Educación 8.26 (2004): 321-327. .
Sweis, Giovanni Parodi, and Cristóbal Julio. "More than words: Contending semiotic systems and the role of disciplinary knowledge in specialized text comprehension." Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (AELFE) 33 (2017): 11-36.
Sotomayor, Carmen, et al. "Perception of pedagogy students about their initial formation." Magis: International Journal of Research in Education 5.11 (2013): 375-392.
Sweis, Giovanni Parodi. "Corpus linguistics and multidimensional analysis: exploration of valuation in the PUCV-2003 corpus." Revista española de lingüística 35.1 (2005): 45-76.
Parodi Sweis, Giovanni. "The evaluation of the production of argumentative written texts: a cognitive/discursive alternative." Revista signos 33.47 (2000): 151-166.
Arnoux, Elvira, Sylvia Nogueira, and Adriana Silvestri. "Habilidades metacomprensivas en estudiantes de profesorado: la formulación de preguntas." Revista Folios 25 (2007): 81-95.
Arnoux, Elvira, et al. "La intervención pedagógica en el proceso de escritura de tesis de posgrado." Revista de la Maestría en Salud Pública 2.3 (2004): 1-16.
Arnoux, Elvira, Mariana Di Stefano, and Cecilia Pereira. "La lectura y la escritura en la universidad." Buenos Aires: Eudeba (2002).
Arnoux, Elvira, Sylvia Nogueira, and Adriana Silvestri. "La construcción de representaciones enunciativas: el reconocimiento de voces en la comprensión de textos polifónicos." Revista signos 35.51-52 (2002): 129-148.
Kleiman, Angela B. "Trajetórias de acesso ao mundo da escrita: relevância das práticas não escolares de letramento para o letramento escolar." Perspectiva 28.2 (2010): 375-400.
Kleiman, Angela B. "Os estudos de letramento e a formação do professor de língua materna." Linguagem em (Dis) curso 8 (2008): 487-517.
Kleiman, Angela B. "Letramento e suas implicações para o ensino de língua materna." Signo 32.53 (2007): 1-25.
Kleiman, Angela B. "Preciso “ensinar” o letramento." Não basta ensinar a ler e a escrever 1 (2005).
Teaching literacy section needs to be revised with an understanding of reading and writing as closely integrated. There is currently no primary home for an understanding of the teaching of writing (only the teaching of reading).
Motta-Roth, Désirée, and Viviane M. Heberle. "A short cartography of genre studies in Brazil." Journal of English for Academic Purposes 19 (2015): 22-31.
Motta-Roth, Desirée. "16 The Role of Context in Academic Text Production and Writing Pedagogy." Genre in a changing world (2009).
Motta-Roth, Désirée, and Fábio S. NASCIMENTO. "Transitivity in visual grammar: concepts and applications." Linguagem & Ensino 12.2 (2009): 319-349.
Motta-Roth, Désirée. "Rhetorical features and disciplinary cultures: a genre-based study of academic book reviews in linguistics, chemistry, and economics." (1995).
Zavala, Virginia. "Language as social practice: deconstructing boundaries in intercultural bilingual education." Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada 57 (2018): 1313-1338.
Zavala, Virginia. "An ancestral language to speak with the “Other”: Closing down ideological spaces of a language policy in the Peruvian Andes." Language Policy 13.1 (2014): 1-20.
Zavala, Virginia. "“It will emerge if they grow fond of it”: Translanguaging and power in Quechua teaching." Linguistics and Education 32 (2015): 16-26.
Zavala, Virginia. "Borrowing evidential functions from Quechua: The role of pues as a discourse marker in Andean Spanish." Journal of Pragmatics 33.7 (2001): 999-1023.
Add your username, goals for article creation, and any specific articles you'll be working on below, alongside your name and a goal or goals you aim to achieve by the end of the month. Additionally, if you plan to collaborate on an article with another participant or participants you may opt to list collaborators and/or invite others to join you.
Copy and paste this format and only change what is within the (parentheses). Add this with a new bullet point below the other participants' sign ups:
The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly workshops & office hours. If you need some help getting started, have specific questions, or would like to find space to work on your article alongside your collaborators, these are great spaces to do so:
Drop-in whenever you'd like on Friday, January 14th and 28th from 1:00pm-3:00pm EST for an informal virtual writing group. The CCCC Wikipedian-in-Residence and the CCCC Graduate Fellows will live edit Wikipedia via Twitch on a different topic focus each week. Although we cannot meet physically, we wish to create a online space where scholars can get together and chat about our work. Whether you are working on a project, plan on adding a few sources to an article, or just want to chat with other scholars, this is a great space to do so.
This introductory workshop covers editing basics with particular attention to some of the specific concerns experts face on Wikipedia and discussion of how academics can use their expertise to advance knowledge equity online. Topics include navigating privacy issues, concerns around conflict of interest, and strategies for getting started with articles that need a lot of work.
This intermediate workshop introduces WikiProject Writing as a collaborative space for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia articles related to our areas of expertise. Topics include defining the scope of WikiProject Writing by tagging articles, directing the priorities of WikiProject Writing by assessing articles, and adding to and working from our list of articles in need of work and creation.
If you would like to discuss something Wikipedia-related one-on-one or get help with a Wikipedia article you’re working on, please feel free to sign up for my office hours on Mondays and Tuesdays or email me to suggest another time (savannahcragin@berkeley.edu).
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