Altoan

Welcome Altoan!

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Sincerely, Crtew (talk) 00:18, 26 August 2013 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)

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Sign on to the course page

Altoan, Congratulations, you were the first one to start the assignment. You did a good job of creating your account, writing a message on my talk page, and writing content for your user page. Now all you have to do is sign on to our course page! It is located at Education Program:University of Southern Indiana/COMM 192: Intro to Mass Communication (Fall 2013). Crtew (talk) 22:48, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

First tasks

 Partly done was changed to  Done because you did them all! Crtew (talk) 02:13, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Adopt a journalist project

Alfrets Mirulewan: Articles for Creation for WikiProject Indonesia.

You have been assigned to write about Alfrets Mirulewan (click this link to edit), who was an Indonesian journalist and editor-in-chief and killed at Kisar, Maluku Islands, Indonesia.

This project is affiliated with WikiProject Journalism and WikiProject Freedom of speech and is conducted by a university course that is participating in Wikipedia:Education program. Crtew (talk) 21:29, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Second tasks

Mandi, You have successfully run the reflinks tool and your sources are in good shape! Crtew (talk) 15:32, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

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