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- Course name
- Cultural History of Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Institution
- University of Washington
- Instructor
- MICHELLE MARTIN
- Wikipedia Expert
- Shalor (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Children's Literature
- Course dates
- 2019-09-25 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-12-09 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 35
This historical overview of Children's and Young Adult literature studies the evolution of the genre written in English by and for African Americans. Students' Wikipedia assignment will ask them to write or edit a page related to some aspect of historical or contemporary African American children's or Young Adult literature.
Timeline
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Sunday, 13 October 2019
- 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:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- 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.)
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Sunday, 20 October 2019
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Sunday, 27 October 2019
- Assignment - Exercise
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Sunday, 3 November 2019
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
Week 7
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Sunday, 17 November 2019
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Sunday, 24 November 2019
- 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:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Assignment - Continue improving your article
Exercise
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.
- 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: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Sunday, 1 December 2019
- 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 Presentation on Wikipedia Assignment