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Course name: Writing for the Web

Institution: Oregon State University

Instructor: Ehren Pflugfelder

Subject: Writing

Course dates: 2015-03-31 – 2015-06-30

Approximate number of student editors: 25

Writing for the Web will prepare students to produce instructive, informative, and rhetorically savvy writing for Web-based locations and applications. Web-based writing is often written differently than writing meant for different media, because writing on the Web is more often concerned with helping people find information, get things done, convey their opinions, build communities, and collaborate on complex projects. To this end, Writing for the Web will teach students processes, strategies, and principles for analyzing writing contexts and producing writing for different content management systems, Websites, Webwares, and apps. This course also a responds to the need for clear, effective, and detail-oriented writing in existing genres and for analysis and production in new and developing platforms. Instruction is grounded in rhetorical theory and by current research in digital rhetoric and technical writing as well as current multimedia writing practices. Students learn effective strategies for writing and producing Web content, particularly through the use of existing Websites and services, but also through the construction of their own Websites. To achieve success in this course, students must demonstrate knowledge of advanced writing techniques adaptable for numerous networked, multimedia contexts.

Finally, there are a few more brochures that would be helpful:

Editing Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_brochure_%28Wiki_Education_Foundation%29.pdf

Choosing an Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Choosing_an_article.pdf

Citing Your Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Citing_your_sources.pdf

Avoiding Plagiarism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Avoiding_plagiarism.pdf

Wikipedia training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students

Timeline

Week 4 : Wikipedia basics

In class

Discussion of: Introduction to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Student_assignments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub_categories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHrGsxSpM5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVFPW0r4jWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXD1TRGafQ0

Handouts: Using Talk Pages handout and Evaluating Wikipedia brochure

To Do: Nominate Wikipedia stubs on message board; sign up for a Wikipedia account; sign up for the Writing for the Web course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:Oregon_State_University/Writing_for_the_Web_(Spring_2015)

Discussion of: collaborative writing, stub voting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia http://www.theonion.com/articles/wikipedia-celebrates-750-years-of-american-indepen,2007/

To Do: Make sure you vote; Complete "Welcome" and "The Core" Wikipedia training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students To Read: Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making us Stupid?” (in Bauerlein)

Discussion of: Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making us Stupid?” (in Bauerlein), group formation, Sandbox or external Google doc formation

To Do: Blog Post #4, Complete "Welcome" and "The Core" Wikipedia training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students

Week 5 : Drafting starter articles

In class

Discussion of: Wikipedia and ethics, NPOV http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/z1aahs/the-word—wikiality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view Group Work

To Do: Outline with Responsibilities; Complete "Editing" Wikipedia training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students

Discussion of: technical aspects of posting to Wikipedia/coding; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Group Work

To Read: Mark Pensky, “Do they Really think Differently?” (in Bauerlein)

Discussion of: Mark Pensky, “Do they Really think Differently?” (in Bauerlein) Group Work

Week 6 : Moving articles to the main space

In class

Discussion of: formatting for Wikipedia; We'll discuss moving your article out of your sandboxes and into Wikipedia's main space. Group Work Handout: Moving out of your sandbox

To Read: Kathering Mangu-Ward “Wikipedia and Beyond” (in Bauerlein)

Wikipedia article due 5/11