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This course focuses on the nature and politics of language, composition, media, and communication. Students learn the basics of inquiry for the purposes of practicing argumentation. This course has a special emphasis on interdisciplinary knowledge-making and the politics of research production in the 21st century.
Student | Assigned | Reviewing |
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Icechrome | Ball Culture | Black Theater Alliance, Hoodoo |
JusticeTone' | Mopan People | African American Muslims |
Quietstorm14 | Atlanta Inquirer | Sophia B. Jones, Cotton Club |
Nehita Star | Mary P. Burrill | Aku Kadogo, Atlanta Inquirer |
Jeilani Chante | Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women | Aku Kadogo, African American Muslims |
Lady Fierce | Audrey F. Manley | Atlanta Inquirer, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar |
IamKoi | Aku Kadogo | Black Theater Alliance, Hoodoo |
SophieBelatrix | Cotton Club | Atlanta Inquirer, Ball Culture |
Nasiya Tarih | African American Muslims | Mopan People, Doris L. Wethers |
Phillcollins101 | Hoodoo, African Divination | Mopan People, Sophia B. Jones |
Before you can participate in the Wikipedia community, you need to choose a hacker name. When selecting your hacker name, you need to think very carefully about how you want to protect your government-issued personally identifying information.
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
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:
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.)
Evaluate an article
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.
Note: Important Wiki Project's that involve increasing coverage of black women's intellectual and cultural traditions include:
Note: Choose at least 2 questions relevant to the article you're evaluating. Leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes Lady Fierce (talk) 00:43, 7 May 2019 (UTC).
Thinking about sources and plagiarism
Be prepared to have a class debate next week about copyright, creativity, and cultural appropriation
What's a content gap?
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Recommended: In preparation for the discussion, you should also read the article: What Motivates Wikipedians and Black Twitter on Wikipedia? Thanks, but We Need to Define Ourselves.
Choose your topic / Find your sources
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Thinking about Wikipedia
Discussion Questions
Guiding framework
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. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
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
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; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
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.
Parameters TBA
Presentations take place from 10:30-12:30 p.m.