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Course name
WRIT 015-11- Banned and Challenged Books
Institution
Georgetown
Instructor
Lisbeth Fuisz
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Writing and Culture
Course dates
2018-09-04 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-12-22 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
15


This class examines censorship in U.S. public schools and libraries. Hundreds of challenges are made yearly to texts for containing sexually explicit material, violence, homosexuality, anti-family sentiment, offensive language and Satanic themes, amongst others. This class will explore what is at stake in these arguments over appropriate reading materials. Students will share their growing knowledge about book censorship with a wider audience through their contributions to Wikipedia.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Mjensen32 Mexican American Studies Department Programs, Tucson Unified School District, Leonard Peltier
Aciccia93 Chief Wahoo
Hannahso608 Rigoberta Menchú, Ethnic studies
Literature8 Hispaniola
Williamoneill15 Tucson Unified School District
Apolizzotto4 Tucson Unified School District
SBaylor Ethnic studies, Contemporary Native American issues in the United States
Chaunguyenle Hispaniola, Chicana/o studies
Jdb337 Native American mascot controversy, Indigenous Peoples' Day
Carlsontemple Leonard Peltier, Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies
Mcoyne1616 Precious Knowledge, Tucson Unified School District, Daddy's Roommate
Stephaniegajdjis And Tango Makes Three, Daddy's Roommate, Mexican American Studies Department Programs, Tucson Unified School District
Tdonohue18
Lgiordano18 Precious Knowledge, Tuscon unified school district-mexican american studies program
BushraSh Gay literature

Timeline

Week 2

Course meetings
Tuesday, 11 September 2018   |   Thursday, 13 September 2018
In class - 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:


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.)

This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity. Each training completed on time is worth 20 points. Please complete before coming to class on Thursday, 9/13.


Assignment - Class Reading

Wikipedia Project, Phase One: discussing the pros and cons of Wikipedia.

  For this class, please read Chapter 3: “The Case Against Wikipedia” in Thomas Leitch’s Wikipedia U, available through Canvas.


Assignment - Small edits to article on children's literature 9/13/18

This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity. Everyone will make at least one small edit to a live article to practice using Wikipedia visual editor and to practice creating an edit summary. 5 points/edit. In-class assignment.

Milestones

Begin a blog about your experiences on Wikipedia. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create at least five blog entries during the semester. These blogs will help you keep track of your evolving experience of working in Wikipedia and be used in writing your final reflection due in Decemeber. Each blog is worth 20 points and must be completed and posted to Canvas prior to Dec. 6. This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity.

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 18 September 2018   |   Thursday, 20 September 2018
In class - Evaluate Wikipedia article in class 9/18/18

Exercise

Evaluate an article


In class - Evaluate Drama Article - Sept. 18

This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity. We will evaluate the article on Drama in class. 15 points for completing this activity. The first step is to create a section in your sandbox called "article evaluation" where you can note your observations about the article in response to the prompts in the exercise. Consider completing the "optional" step of posting one suggestion to the article's talk page. Be sure to sign this suggestion.

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Milestones

 

Reminder: Blog about your experiences on Wikipedia. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. For example, use the following discussion prompt "What's a content gap?" to frame a blog post. Create at least five blog entries during the semester. These blogs will help you keep track of your evolving experience of working in Wikipedia and be used in writing your final reflection due in Decemeber. Each blog is worth 20 points and must be completed and posted to Canvas prior to Dec. 6. This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity.


Assignment - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 2 October 2018   |   Thursday, 4 October 2018
In class - Editing articles in honor of Indigenous' Peoples Day - Oct. 2, 2018

      1. Select a Wikipedia article from the lists generated by your classmates.

      2. Assign the article to yourself through the dashboard.

      3. Evaluate the article using the questions from the evaluation exercise you’ve done before. It’s posted above in Week 3. Post your evaluation notes in your sandbox. Be sure these notes are labeled to differentiate them from your previous evaluations. (15 points).

     4. Make at least 5 small live edits to the article based on your evaluation. Each edit is worth 5 points. Be sure to include a edit summary for each edit. Small edits include fixing citations, revising sentences for clarity, correcting proofreading errors, and adding 1-2 sentences of new content. Aspirational goal for this assignment is to add 1-2 sentences of new content based on class sources such as Rethinking Columbus, the Acosta article, the Cabrera et al article, and the documentary. Another good source for information is Credo Reference, a compilation of encyclopedias available through Lauinger Library. Here is the link: Credo Reference

 

This opens a pop-up window to share the URL for this database

This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity worth 40 points total (15 for evaluation and 5 for each edit). Edits must be completed by Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 11:59pm to receive full credit.

 

 


In class - Editing articles in honor of Indigenous' Peoples Day - Oct. 4, 2018

Repeat Tuesday's activity with a different article.

 

 

      1. Select a Wikipedia article from the lists generated by your classmates.

      2. Assign the article to yourself through the dashboard.

      3. Evaluate the article using the questions from the evaluation exercise you’ve done before. It’s posted above in Week 3. Post your evaluation notes in your sandbox. Be sure these notes are labeled to differentiate them from your previous evaluations. (15 points).

     4. Make at least 5 small live edits to the article based on your evaluation. Each edit is worth 5 points. Be sure to include a edit summary for each edit. Small edits include fixing citations, revising sentences for clarity, correcting proofreading errors, and adding 1-2 sentences of new content. Aspirational goal for this assignment is to add 1-2 sentences of new content based on class sources such as Rethinking Columbus, the Acosta article, the Cabrera et al article, and the documentary. Another good source for information is Credo Reference, a compilation of encyclopedias available through Lauinger Library. Here is the link: Credo Reference

 

This opens a pop-up window to share the URL for this database

This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity worth 40 points total (15 for evaluation and 5 for each edit). Edits must be completed by Friday, Oct. 5 at 11:59pm to receive full credit.

Assignment - Locate and evaluate articles related to Tuscon controversy

 

Identify 5 articles on Wikipedia that are related to the section of Rethinking Columbusyou read or that are related to the Tucson controversy to which we as a class may make edits. Post the names of these five articles to the Canvas discussion called “Wikipedia articles related to Rethinking Columbusand to the Tucson controversy”. This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity and is worth 10 points.


Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

 

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 9 October 2018   |   Thursday, 11 October 2018
In class - Evaluating Wikipedia articles on A Wrinkle In Time - Oct. 9
  • Select either the Wikipedia article on the book or the movie, and decide if the article follows the basic format described in the handout. What does the article have/cover that is mentioned in the handout? What is missing and could be added to the article? Then find one source using a database from Lauinger Library, either Credo Reference or Literature Resource Center.
  • Label and post your evaluations to your sandbox. This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity. The evaluation is worth 15 points.

a.  Credo Reference

 

b.     

Literature Resource Center (LRC)

 

 

 


Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Books

Films

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 16 October 2018   |   Thursday, 18 October 2018
Milestones

Reminder: Blog about your experiences on Wikipedia. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. For example, use the following discussion prompt "Thinking about Wikipedia" to frame a blog post. Create at least five blog entries during the semester. These blogs will help you keep track of your evolving experience of working in Wikipedia and be used in writing your final reflection due in Decemeber. Each blog is worth 20 points and must be completed and posted to Canvas prior to Dec. 6. This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity.


In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 23 October 2018   |   Thursday, 25 October 2018

Week 9

Course meetings
Tuesday, 30 October 2018   |   Thursday, 1 November 2018
In class - Evaluate Wikipedia article on Persepolis - 10/30/18

 

         Evaluate the Wikipedia article for Persepolis:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_(comics)

a.    Use both means of evaluation with which we are now familiar: the list of questions from the evaluation activity and the handout about the structure of a book article.  Post these evaluations to your sandbox with an appropriate heading. This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity worth 15 points.

b.    Then meet with a small group and agree upon one edit each person will make in the section of the article assigned to your group. These are the sections:

                                               i.     Lead + Publication history

                                             ii.     Background + Character list

                                            iii.     Summary of Persepolis 1

                                            iv.     Summary of Persepolis 2

                                              v.     Reception + Film + Persepolis 2.0

c.    Please make this edit to the LIVE Wikipedia page by Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 11:59pm. The edit is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity worth 5 points.

Evaluate using

Books

Evaluate an article

Week 10

Course meetings
Tuesday, 6 November 2018   |   Thursday, 8 November 2018
In class - Choose your topic/Evaluate your article - 11/6/2018


Week 11

Course meetings
Tuesday, 13 November 2018   |   Thursday, 15 November 2018
In class - Library research - 11/13-15/2018

Please meet in the Dubin room in the Lauinger Library (Rm. 156). Please bring your "Evaluating Wikipedia" handout that you completed in class on Nov. 6 to help guide your research.

Week 12

Course meetings
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Please complete these two trainings by the end of class. They are each worth 20 points if completed on time, and they count as Wikipedia Project, Phase One activities.

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Milestones

Everyone has begun drafting the new content for their article.


In class - Plan for class on Tuesday, November 20, 2018

By the end of class on Tuesday, by 1:50pm, please complete the following:

 

1.     Complete two trainings on the Wikipedia dashboard: “Drafting in the sandbox” and “Plagiarism.” They are linked above.

2.     Create a bibliography of sources from your library sessions using RefWorks. Bibliography should be in MLA 7th or 8th edition. Please check the bibliography for errors using your Hacker guide as a reference for MLA 7th edition. MLA 8th edition can be found at http://irsc.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=24678019

 

3.     Create a plan, based on your detailed evaluation, for what edits you will make to your Wikipedia article. These edits must encompass the three areas on the Wikipedia Project, Phase Two handout (new content, revisions based on Wikipedia criteria, and small edits). This plan can be general about the scope of your intentions, but it must include the justification for the changes you will make. Feel free to use the language from the Wikipedia handouts on evaluating and editing articles. Here are some examples:

a.  I will add content about Pre-Colombian experiences of the Tainos to fill in a content gap I identified in the article.

b.    I will reorder the article’s structure to better meet Wikipedia’s criterion for balance so that no section takes over the article. Right now the summary section is longer than any other portion of the article.

c.    I will tighten and shortened the section on controversy because it seems, to use the language in Wikipedia’s guidelines, overly long in proportion to its importance.

d.    I will add citations to improve the article’s reliability, an important element of Wikipedia’s guidelines for quality articles.

4.     Post the bibliography and the plan to the ARTICLE’S TALK PAGE. Add a new section to the talk page that’s entitled something like “proposed revisions to the article.”

5.     Begin drafting your new contributions in your SANDBOX.  These are the contributions addressed in the Wikipedia Project, Phase Two handout -- "Adding information you deem necessary. This information will fill content gaps you identify and create balance in the article’s coverage of the topic. The goal will be to prepare about 350 words of new text (based on research) to add to the article. This may be a new section or small chunks of content (1-2 sentences at a time)." A full draft of your new content must be in your sandbox by Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 11:59am (prior to our first class meeting after Thanksgiving).

 

If you are not in class on Tuesday, you are responsible for completing these steps on time for full credit. As noted in the rubric for Wikipedia Project, Phase Two, to earn a 4 on the project, “All required steps in the writing process were taken and completed on time.”

 

 

Week 13

Course meetings
Tuesday, 27 November 2018   |   Thursday, 29 November 2018
In class - Peer review - 11/27/18

Peer reviewers today will not be looking at the whole article, just the new content you will be adding to the article.

Please answer the questions on the handout. There are questions to answer before and after you complete the peer review.

1. Answer questions 1-3 on handout.

2. Then read and respond to the work of two classmates in their sandboxes.

To get started for each review, navigate to the page where your peer is drafting their contribution to Wikipedia. This will usually be their sandbox, but if you aren't sure, ask. Use the Talk page of that sandbox page to leave feedback.

If your class is drafting their work in sandboxes, follow these steps:

·       Find your peers' sandbox. Navigate there from the Students (or Editors) tab of your Course page...or just ask them.

·       Go to the talk page of their sandbox.

·       Click "New section".

·       Add a subject, something like "Samantha's peer review".

·       Leave your notes in the space below.

·       Save the page.

 

3. After completing feedback for two classmates, answer questions 4-6 on the handout about the feedback you received.

4. Turn handout in to Professor Fuisz at the end of class.

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned drafts.


In class - Respond to your peer review - 11/29/18

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:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.


Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

Please complete the training prior to the start of class. The training is worth 20 points if completed on time, and it counts as a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity.

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.

Week 14

Course meetings
Tuesday, 4 December 2018   |   Thursday, 6 December 2018
Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Please complete the training prior to the start of class. The training is worth 20 points if completed on time, and it counts as a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity.

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


Assignment - Polish your work

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!


In class - Article review

Guiding framework

Week 15

Course meetings
Tuesday, 11 December 2018   |   Thursday, 13 December 2018
Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

  • Read 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!


Assignment - Reflective essay

Guiding questions

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading by 11:59pm on Dec. 14, 2018.

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