Wikipedia:School and university projects/Eng 22

What follows is information about the Eng 22 (Intro to Expository Writing )class I taught in the Summer 2008 for the Upward Bound Program at Leeward Community College in Pearl City, Hawaii. The class was 5 weeks long. We met for 2.5 hours, four times a week. Nine students were in the class: 3 from Waianae High School, 2 from James Campbell High School, 2 from Waipahu High School and 1 each from Yuba City High School and Oroville High School.

Class Assignments

The first assignment was to describe and evaluate a Wikipedia article. For our purpose, the article was about the high school the class member attended. Essay instructions
In the second assignment, students compared and contrasted two Wikipedia articles. For our class, students compared the Wikipedia article about their high school with another Wikipedia article about another high school. Essay instructions
A third assignment had students write an annotated bibliography on a topic listed at Wikipedia:Requested articles page. Essay instructions
Next, for the fourth assignment, students had to do a minor edit on the Wikipedia article about their high school.
The final project was to write an article for Wikipedia, using two comparable Wikipedia articles as models. The new article was based on the research done in the third assignment aiming at Wikipedia: Good article criteria. This final project was done in stages, with drafts of the articles posted at each student's Wikipedia userspace (see below for links to these). Once these drafts had been worked on and peer & instructor reviewed and edited, they were posted to Wikipedia mainspace for the world to see, edit, comment on, and learn from.

Article topics

User:Banga96792 wrote the article Authority Problem
User:Ub_student wrote the article Applewood cheese
User:hewaiualani wrote the article Theodore Heuck
User:Chelly123 wrote the article California slang
User:gmoniyee wrote the article Civil War rifles
User:ubenglish wrote the article karmaloop.com
User:hiubenglish22 expanded the stub Li hing mui
User:Kiara56 wrote the article Personal Freedom
User:maiv-yias wrote the article Pascal Dangin
User:Eng22 wrote the article Harry Statham

As time and energy permit. I will add more commentary and discussion of what went well and what I might have done differently to make the class and assignments work better.

--Eng22 (talk) 06:59, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]