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- Course name
- First Year English Composition 1001
- Institution
- University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College
- Instructor
- Ruth Benander
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Sociology
- Course dates
- 2023-08-23 00:00:00 UTC – 2023-11-30 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 43
English Composition 1001 is a writing-centered, inquiry learning course that emphasizes the careful reading, analytical thinking, and persuasive strategies inherent in researching and writing within an academic community. Students learn that rhetorical knowledge is the basis of composing while learning to write with purpose, audience, context, and conventions in mind. Students develop rigorous academic research practices: how to locate and evaluate primary and secondary sources relevant to their line of inquiry and position their own ideas in conversation with public writing. Students also engage in regular self-reflection: articulating what they know, what they can do, and how to apply their knowledge and skills in various contexts.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 24 August 2023
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
- Assignment - Wikipedia assignment blog
Begin a blog about your experiences. We will use discussion questions to frame your entries, and reflect on the research and writing process. We will create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment in your Google Sites eportfolio site. We will title this page "Wikipedia Process Blog".
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account. You will submit your login credentials through the Wikipedia Credentials assignment in our Canvas course. Here is a video that shows how to make your Wikipedia Account.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 29 August 2023 | Thursday, 31 August 2023
- Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
- In class - Discussion
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 5 September 2023 | Thursday, 7 September 2023
- Assignment - Review the rules for health topics
- Assignment - Make a small edit
- In class - Discussion
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 12 September 2023 | Thursday, 14 September 2023
- Assignment - Choose possible topics
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6, Article finder: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/article_finder
- In class - Getting to know your Sandboxes
- In class - Building your bibliography
- Assignment - Finalize your topic and find sources
- Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 19 September 2023 | Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts. Review Headings and Subheadings here.
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 26 September 2023 | Thursday, 28 September 2023
- Assignment - Peer review two articles
- In class - Discussion
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 3 October 2023 | Thursday, 5 October 2023
- Assignment - Respond to your peer review
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- In class - Adding images
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 10 October 2023 | Thursday, 12 October 2023
- Assignment - Continue improving your article
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; or reorganize the text to communicate the information better. This is the time that you will also add images and other media such as an infographic.
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 17 October 2023 | Thursday, 19 October 2023
- Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 24 October 2023 | Thursday, 26 October 2023
- Assignment - Polish your work
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards.
You will also get feedback on your image additions or infographic that supports your contribution to the page.
Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 31 October 2023 | Thursday, 2 November 2023
- Assignment - Final article
It's the final week to develop your article.
- Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final checklist before completing your assignment.
- Work in your group to discuss the checklist to make sure the assignment meets all the items of the checklist.
- Don't forget that you can ask for help from your instructor or the Wikipedia Expert at any time!
- In class - In-class presentation
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 9 November 2023
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
- Assignment - Original analytical paper
Wikipedia asks you to write in a neutral tone in your entry. Choose a gap in the knowledge, conflict, or new ideas in the existing conversation about your topic that changed how you think about the topic. Identify a current social or professional problem that this idea highlights for you. Write a paper using the information and sources from your Wikipedia article to advance an action you believe you can take or which you would recommend that members of your profession should take to address the problem that you have identified. Use your Wikipedia sources to support your solution. Explain the stakeholders that will benefit from your solution.
The draft is due for instructor feedback in our Canvas course by midnight November 9.
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2023 | Thursday, 16 November 2023
- In class - Peer Review and Revise Original Analytical Paper
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 21 November 2023
- In class - Reflection on the Original Analytical Paper, due Tuesday in class
In this piece of writing, you will compare the similarities and differences in content, tone, audience, purpose, structure, and effect of your Original Analyticak Paper and your Wikipedia Project.
- In class - No class on Thursday
- November 23 for the Thanksgiving holiday
- In class - Week 15 (11/27 - 11/30)
Tuesday, Nov 28: Final Course Evaluation Outline
Thursday, Nov 30: Final ePortfolio Review and Submission
- Assignment - Reflective essay
In this essay, Analyze the rhetorical situation of the Wikipedia page by examining the audience, purpose, and context of your work. Explain how you have composed multiple genres for the variety of audiences and purposes using Wikipedia, using sources as a foundation for your contributions. Narrate the composing processes Wikipedia has required and the conventions you needed to observe to create the page. Discuss how you used inquiry-based research practices to identify potential gaps in the page you chose to contribute to, conflicts in perspectives you identified, or new ideas in the existing conversation about the topic to which you have contributed. Present how you located, evaluated, and synthesized the source material you found to reflect a range of perspectives on the page. Finally, articulate what you learned about reading, research, and writing processes through this work and how you can apply this knowledge in your other classes and in your profession.