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This course is an introduction to those physical and chemical principles that describe how food composition, molecular properties, and interactions among molecules give rise to food properties.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
You should edit a Wikipedia article on food in two ways:
First, add some content (one-two sentences or a brief paragraph) related to the physical properties of the food (heat, entropy, molecular interactions, etc.).
Second, add a reference citation to any claim in the article that doesn't have one.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Find an existing or create an appropriate photo, illustration, or piece of video/audio to add to a specific article on food.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep searching for and reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Find a Wiki article on a food or food ingredient that does not include a description its physical properties. Add a description of its molecular composition, including at least one reference as well as appropriate internal links to other Wiki articles.
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
An understanding of the physical structure of a food is important for understanding its properties. For example, the current article on peanut butter does not indicate that it is a dispersion of solid ground peanuts (composed of proteins and carbohydrates) dispersed in liquid peanut oil and the consequences of this structure for behavior as a food.
Add content to the Wiki article (the one you added composition to earlier) that briefly but clearly describes the physical structure of the food, including at least one reference as well as appropriate internal links to other Wiki pages.
Find an article on food that would be improved through the addition of an equation that describes an important property of the food (it could be the same article you have been editing). Add an equation to the article including a short paragraph describing the equation, explaining what it means (what the terms mean and how the equation relates these terms), and how it is applied to and explains the properties of the food.
Everyone should have generated a rough (perhaps very rough) draft of their article with enough content and structure to allow for peer review. The process of peer review will begin next week.
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
It's the final week to develop your article.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.