Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Southwestern University/Biochemistry (Fall)

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{{assignment|Assignment - 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:

• [https://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia Editing Wikipedia], pages 1–5
• [https://wikiedu.org/evaluatingwikipedia Evaluating Wikipedia]

{{assignment|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.)

Once you have your account created, review the "Wikipedia Policies", "Sandboxes...", and "How to Edit" trainings. 

{{assignment|Assignment - Evaluating Wikipedia & using sources}}

After you've completed those trainings, start thining about what makes scientific topics good on Wikipedia. Review the "Evaluating Articles" and "Plagiarism" trainings, then eplore related [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biochemistry biochemistry] topics on Wikipedia and pick a topic to evaluate yourself. Use the exercise below to help you through this evaluation 

Evaluate an article

After you complete this exercise and these trainings, you should be able to:

• Explain Wikipedia's policy on plagiarism and copyright violations.
• Discuss good techniques to avoid close paraphrasing and plagiarism.
• For additional help, review the discussion prompts below. 

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

{{assignment milestones|Everyone has a Wikipedia account}}

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

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{{assignment|Assignment - Select a biochemistry topic}}

Choose your to

{{assignment|Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area}}

[https://wikiedu.org/chemistry Chemistry]

[https://wikiedu.org/genes_and_proteins Genes and Proteins]

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{{assignment milestones|Everyone has started writing}}

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

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{{assignment|Assignment - Complete first draft}}

Each group should have their complete first draft ready in ONE group members Sandbox. This draft needs to be ready for peer review. 

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{{assignment|Assignment - Peer review an article}}

• Add your username next to the article you are assigned to peer review.
• Then, use the "Guiding Framework" to peer review your classmates' drafts. As directed, leave suggestions on on the Talk page of the article, or sandbox, that your fellow student is working on. 

Guiding framework

{{assignment milestones|Peer reviews are complete}}

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

{{assignment|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:

• [https://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia#page=12 Editing Wikipedia], pages 12 and 14
• Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

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{{assignment|Assignment - Continue improving your article}}

[https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/continue-improving-exercise/link-articles Add links to 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; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

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{{assignment|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: [https://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia#page=13 Editing Wikipedia], page 13

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{{start of course week|2020-12-15|2020-12-17}}

{{assignment|Assignment - Reflection Paper}}

{{in class|In class - In-class presentation}}

Use the guiding questions below to present about your Wikipedia research process. Your presentation should be 5 min.

Guiding questions

{{assignment|Assignment - Final article}}

It's the final week to develop your article.

• Read [https://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia#page=15 Editing Wikipedia] page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
• Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

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Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

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