What follows is information about the Eng 22 (Intro to Expository Writing )class I taught in the Summer 2008 for the Upward Bound Program at Leeward Community College in Pearl City, Hawaii. The class was 5 weeks long. We met for 2.5 hours, four times a week. Nine students were in the class: 3 from Waianae High School, 2 from James Campbell High School, 2 from Waipahu High School and 1 each from Yuba City High School and Oroville High School.
Class Assignments edit
- The first assignment was to describe and evaluate a Wikipedia article. For our purpose, the article was about the high school the class member attended. Essay instructions
- In the second assignment, students compared and contrasted two Wikipedia articles. For our class, students compared the Wikipedia article about their high school with another Wikipedia article about another high school. Essay instructions
- A third assignment had students write an annotated bibliography on a topic listed at Wikipedia:Requested articles page. Essay instructions
- Next, for the fourth assignment, students had to do a minor edit on the Wikipedia article about their high school.
- The final project was to write an article for Wikipedia, using two comparable Wikipedia articles as models. The new article was based on the research done in the third assignment aiming at Wikipedia: Good article criteria. This final project was done in stages, with drafts of the articles posted at each student's Wikipedia userspace (see below for links to these). Once these drafts had been worked on and peer & instructor reviewed and edited, they were posted to Wikipedia mainspace for the world to see, edit, comment on, and learn from.
Article topics edit
- User:Banga96792 wrote the article Authority Problem
- User:Ub_student wrote the article Applewood cheese
- User:hewaiualani wrote the article Theodore Heuck
- User:Chelly123 wrote the article California slang
- User:gmoniyee wrote the article Civil War rifles
- User:ubenglish wrote the article karmaloop.com
- User:hiubenglish22 expanded the stub Li hing mui
- User:Kiara56 wrote the article Personal Freedom
- User:maiv-yias wrote the article Pascal Dangin
- User:Eng22 wrote the article Harry Statham
As time and energy permit. I will add more commentary and discussion of what went well and what I might have done differently to make the class and assignments work better.
Welcome! edit
Hello, Eng22, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:
- Introduction
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
- Also feel free to make test edits in the sandbox.
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User pages are not article pages edit
Good evening. I noticed a recent edit you made here. You seem to be creating or working on rather a lot of what appear to be encyclopedia articles at username titles. Since many of those pages include categories, they are creating real problems for other parts of the project. I have to admit 1) that I'm curious why you are creating the pages in the userspace instead of in the main article space and 2) why you seem to be doing it across so many different user pages.
If you are going to work on drafts in the userspace, please move them into user subpages so they can be more clearly differentiated from the user's actual page. Please also comment out any categories and most templates (since many templates also include an embedded category tag). The category can be uncommented at the point you move it into the main articlespace.
Please also be sure that there are no inbound links to any of these pages. Inbound links would be a serious breach of our userpage policy. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 20:56, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
- Looking at your userpage more closely, it appears that this is a grouping of editors working on a school project. If you have not already seen the page, I would urge you to review Wikipedia:School and university projects and it's associated drill-down pages for teachers and students. The drafts you are creating are usually better organized as a WikiProject than as an ad-hoc clustering of userpages. Given where you are in your cirriculum, it may be too late to change this round but it would be something to keep in mind for next time. Rossami (talk) 21:11, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of Karmaloop.com edit
A tag has been placed on Karmaloop.com, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as the Wikipedia:Business' FAQ for more information.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. LAAFan 23:00, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Project edit
Firstly, please announce your project at Wikipedia:School and university projects. And on the talk page of each article - for example: thus. It is nice to see a project announcing itself honestly unlike some that just try ot sneak in.
Looking at your list of topics, most look OK with the glaring exception of Personal Freedom. Surely you realised that this topic would already be covered here? Since you presumably want to see a markable essay, I suggest you tell Kiara56 to create this on your college's computer. Wikipedia does not allow people the freedom to write essays here! — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 07:25, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
OK, I see the essay is at User:Kiara56. It might as well stay there. But please do not copy&paste your students' essays into the article space as you did for example with, Personal Freedom. This conceals the true authorship. You should always move articles. But, again it is probaably too late, the damage is done. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 07:34, 17 July 2008 (UTC)