Day Ten Assignments

For next class

1) If you haven't already completed Summary Practice 1 and Paraphrase Practice 1 in the Discussion section of D2L, do so by the end of today's class (7/1)

2) Come to class prepared to share with the class on the big screen one problem you or your group is experiencing with the Wikipedia revision/editing process

3) Continue the editing process (this is key - don't rely only on the designated class time to conduct the revision and editing work)

The Wikipedia article task must be completed by the beginning of class on Wednesday, July 8.

Day Ten Class Notes

Housekeeping (15)
Please write your name and the Wikipedia user name (just your user name, not your password) you are using for this class on the piece of paper that is coming around

Look at Wikipedia Resources and ask questions

Wikipedia Article Scoring Rubric (10)
Review the Wikipedia Article scoring rubric and discuss questions

Create/Revise your Action Plan (20)

• For today, you were to have created a list of 3-4 "things" that you needed to do to improve the Wikipedia article of your choosing.
• Based on the requirements outlined in the scoring rubric, revise your action plan on the collaboration page.
• Based on work done since Monday, note which parts of your plan you have already completed (leave these items on the collaboration page-- just write "completed by [name] on [date]" next to them)
• Based on the scoring rubric, list new actions for plan, who will complete them, and the proposed date for completion
• Discuss questions that may have arisen after working with the scoring rubric to develop the action plan
• IMPORTANT - use the collaboration page as the repository of all of your work for this assignment. To make it more readable, create sub-headings that make sense for your revision project.
  

Evaluating Sources (20)
Instructor highlights key components of source evaluation from collaboration pages Comments/Observations/Questions

Summary and Paraphrase Discussions (10)
Instructor highlights work

Time for work on Wikipedia Articles (75)
The editing and revision work for the Wikipedia article must be completed by the beginning of class on Wednesday, July 8.

Day Nine Assignments

For next class

1) Find two sources that could be used in your Wikipedia article and meet the Wikipedia criteria for a verifiable and credible source

Post an MLA Works Cited for these two sources on your collaboration page. Under the Works Cited entry, write a brief (150 words or more) evaluation of each source based on the criteria at one of these sites:

• Evaluating Sources online: Four Criteria - OWL @ Purdue
• Wikipedia: Verifiability
• Wikipedia: Reliable Sources

2)List at least 3-4 specific next steps on your collaboration page and assign these tasks to group members with expected due dates

3) Review the spdq assignment from day 8 and complete the Discussion assignments (Summary Practice 1 and Paraphrase Practice 1).

Instructor Availability

Just a quick note to let you know that I'll be away from my computer until Sunday morning. If you have questions about your revisions, please do email me, but know that I won't be able to respond to your questions until Sunday morning.

Photograph by Eric Geistler, BWCAW, May, 2009

Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis Rough Draft Instructor's Comments

The instructor's comments have been sent to you as an .mp3 email attachment. Please check your email. If you submitted a rough draft on time, but did not receive an email with comments from me, please let me know as soon as possible.

Day Eight Assignments

The revision of the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis is due by the beginning of class on Monday, June 29 (and I encourage you to send it to me prior to the deadline). Send the complete revision - essay and Works Cited page in one document - as an email attachment to Michael.Kuhne@minneapolis.edu.

If you did NOT finish the two Discussions ("Summary Practice I" and "Paraphrase Practice I"), I ask that you complete them (both the posting and the reply) by the beginning of class on Wednesday, July 1).

Day Nine Class Notes

Reflecting on the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis (15)

What went well? What's still a challenge?


Wikipedia Article Assignment(15)

Review Assignment Definition
Open the wiki in a new tab or window
Ask one question in the comment section below the assignment.

Discuss grading rubric.: we've never done this assignment before - do you have any suggestions about what the grading rubric should include? How much attempted change to an article do you think would be reasonable? How should we judge that change? Quantity? Quality? Which criteria?

Find another potential Wikipedia article (10)

Wikipedia Article Fair (50)
-work from the instructor's work station
-name the article
-what interests you about the article?
-what is wrong/incomplete about the article?

Looking ahead to the final 20 minutes today - decisions about the article

Wikipedia resources (10)

What else have you found within Wikipedia that is useful?
Please add your resources to the Wikipedia Resources page on the course wiki

Evaluating Sources
Evaluating Sources: Four Criteria - OWL @ Purdue
Activity - find an external source (external to Wikipedia) that you think would be a good one to link to your Wikipedia article (from the WFAA or a new article).
Take notes of this (include all pertinent publishing information - MLA Works Cited entry) resource, and write (handwritten or computer generated) a short evaluation of the source. We will use this information in class on Wednesday.

Final 20 minutes - Making Article Decisions
which article?
individually or collaboratively?
next steps on the new article wiki

Day Eight Class Notes

Peer Response Groups (50)

Get in peer response groups

Pick the person whose writing will be discussed first--everyone responds to first question from that writer--everyone responds to second question--third question

Move to the questions in the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis peer response guidelines--everyone responds to 1.1--everyone responds to 1.2 and so on through 2.1 and 2.2

Begin the process again with the next group member

Write notes about helpful information from this discussion

Addressing the Revision of the Feature Article Analysis Essay
Return to the Instructor Sampling Discussion (15)

Instructor's comments sent this morning as an audio file email attachment

Sampling (25)

• Thesis statements (Cody and Abdirahman)
• Analytical body paragraphs (claim - evidence - explanation -closing) (Terry's 3rd and 4th body paragraphs)
• Addressing summaries, paraphrasing, and direct quotes

Creating Accurate Works Cited Entries for Wikipedia pages

Wikipedia: Citing Wikipedia - MLA style guide (25)

Use Diana Hacker's page (Work of Art) to help guide the creation of a Works Cited entry for a photograph.

Making clear connections between the first piece of information presented in the Work Cited entry and how that information is communicated in the in-text citation.

Task: Return to the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis peer response and final draft wiki page
Edit - draft your Works Cited page (discuss formating challenges) - save.


Practice summarizing and paraphrasing
Common problems appearing in drafts (40)

-ineffective signal phrasing to indicate HOW the source is being cited

-text appearing as a summary or paraphrase with key words or phrases from the original

Tips for summarizing
* Carefully read the text you are summarizing
* Write the main idea of each paragraph in your own words
* If some paragraphs have similar ideas or the same idea, write one idea for this group of paragraphs
* Write the main idea of the entire passage in your own words

Combine these lists of ideas into a summary that includes
* one sentence that states the main idea of the entire text
* one sentence for each of the key points from the individuals paragraphs or groups of paragraphs that support the main idea.
* an in-text citation for the source of the summarized information

Things generally left out of summaries
* examples
* quotes

• How to Summarize (University of Pittsburgh)


• Learn to Summarize (University of Houston- Victoria)


• Summary: using it wisely (University of North Carolina)
  
  

Tips for paraphrasing

• Carefully read the text you are paraphrasing


• while looking at the paraphrase, write a 4 word summary of each sentence in the text in your own words


• Put away the original text


• Using your 4 word summaries, explain the main ideas of the passage by writing sentences in your own words

Check your version against the original:

1. does it convey the correct ideas?


2. Does it use any exact quotes?


3. Does it too closely mimic the sentence structure of the original?
   
   

• If you find exact quotes, place them in quotation marks and include an in-text citation * Include an in-text citation for the entire paraphrase
  


• Paraphrasing (Duke University)


• Paraphrase and Summary (University of Toronto)


• Successful vs. unsuccessful paraphrases (UW-Madison)


• Paraphrase: Write It in Your Own Words (Purdue University)


• Paraphrase or Quotation? (Monash University)
  

Discussion - Summary Practice 1 and Paraphrase Practice 1

Photograph attribution: Pear-2-Pear by Fab:o Fo:s

Day Seven Assignments

These assignments are due at the beginning of class on Day Eight:

1) Read and respond to the rough drafts in your small peer response group. Use the peer response guidelines to direct your responses.

Day Seven Class Notes

Peer response guidelines

Discuss process and Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis peer response guidelines

Add three questions about your rough draft for your peer response group to answer at the end of your rough draft




Norming

Get volunteer

Small groups respond to specific questions

Summary of norming and questions

Scrap Paper Evidence Exercise

Writer identifies a claim in need of (better) evidence

On a scrap of paper, write
--your name
--the name of the Wikipedia article you are discussing
--the claim for which you need better evidence

Instructor gathers and re-distributes to students working in pairs

Partners must then find evidence for the claim

When complete, partners return scrap - with evidence - to the original writer-- and discuss

Instructor Sampling for explanation

Instructor chooses thesis statement, claim, and evidence from rough draft and places in Discussion
Discuss

Photograph Attribution
Daniel Burka: How User Feedback Influences Design
by gr3m]

Day Six Assignments

These assignments are due by the beginning of Day Seven (unless otherwise noted).

The revision of the Wikipedia Debate essay should be sent to Michael.Kuhne@minneapolis.edu as an email attachment (not within the body of the email, please), and this is due by noon on Monday, June 22. We will be doing some work with these revisions in class, so it is important that you have them completed and sent.

The rough draft of the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis is due by noon on Monday, June 22. Please post your draft within your small peer response group (Michael has edited and create new pages for each individual rough draft).

Day Six Class Notes

The revision of the Wikipedia Debate essay is due by noon on Monday, June 22.
Please send your revision as an email attachment to Michael.Kuhne@minneapolis.edu.

Review the expectations for the revision:

• focused (750 word minimum)


• clear thesis (sub-claims are a plus, but not required)


• focused analytical body paragraphs (claim-evidence-explanation-closing)


• Cite some from the four Wikipedia Debate articles or the three videos that we watched in class AND a Wikipedia page


• Produce a Works Cited page (good faith effort)


• keep it simple and direct

Today's goal

Understand the organization of
the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis
-- read and discuss

Download the Wikipedia Feature Article Drafting Sheet - we will use this to guide our work today.

Which criteria for a featured article does this article fail to meet?

Create a thesis statement
-- share thesis statement with one other person
-- does it follow the format suggestion in the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis assignment?
-- is it arguable and focused?

Based on the thesis, what are the claims for the body paragraphs?

Create an outline of the claims for the body paragraphs
--large group discussion

Find evidence in your chosen non-feature article to support each claim

By the end of class, everyone should have a thesis statement, a series of claims supporting the thesis statement, and evidence to support each of these claims

[photo: Chalk Outline by rbieber]

Check your email

Please check your email. As of 3:30 on Monday, June 15, I have sent all of you an email with my comments about your Wikipedia Debate rough draft. Those comments are contained within the .mp3 file that I attached to the email. If you did not receive that email, please inform me via email at Michael.Kuhne@minneapolis.edu.

Also, if you are having trouble editing the course wiki, one trouble-shooting approach is to open the course wiki in a new tab or window (it doesn't work as effectively when one tries to edit when the course wiki is presented through the course's D2L screen).

Day Five Assignments

These assignments are due at the beginning of Day Six.

1) Continue working on your Wikipedia Debate essay revision - it is due by noon on Monday, June 22. Submit the revision as an email attachment to Michael.Kuhne@minneapolis.edu

2) Review the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis assignment definition

Day Five Class Notes

Announcements

• Extend deadline to respond to small peer response group drafts - Tuesday, June 16, noon.
• Extend deadline for revision of Wikipedia Debate essay - Monday, June 22, noon.
• (Send your revised draft as an attachment to Michael.Kuhne@minneapolis.edu)

Small Peer Response Group Conferences

Instructor's Focus for the Wikipedia Debate essay (10 minutes)

• clear organization of the essay (introduction, body, conclusion)
• a concise lead and a focused thesis statement (with sub-claims is a plus)
• focused analytical body paragraphs (claim - evidence - explanation - closing)
• improvements with MLA (introductions to sources, signal phrases, punctuation/formatting, in-text citations)
• A good faith effort with the Works Cited page

The Small Peer Response Group Process (5)

• move into your small peer response groups (you may need to have computers on and the essays in front of you; that's fine)
• one person volunteers to have his or her essay critiqued
• one person volunteers to begin critiquing
• in your discussions, stay focused on the items noted above
• don't simply draw attention to an error or omission - make concrete suggestions for how the writer can improve the essay
• when one person is done, move on to the next person

Small peer response group conferences (40 minutes)

revision plan (10)

• what you need to do
• when you are going to do it

The revision deadline has been extended to Monday, 22 June, by noon. (please note, however, that the rough draft deadline for the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis is also Monday, June 22; plan your time accordingly).

Submit the revised Wikipedia Debate essay as an email attachment to Michael.Kuhne@minneapolis.edu

Instructor Sampling (20 minutes)

• Focused lead/hook (Aaron and Biniam)
• Clear thesis with sub-claims (Jordana)
• Analytical Body Paragraphs and use of MLA (Keira)

Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis

Begin discussion of next major writing assignment: Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis (60 min)

Search--Find out what a Feature Article is in Wikipedia

--view criteria
--discuss criteria

• are they manageable? reasonable?
• what don't you understand?

Find a feature article about a topic that interests you
-- read it
-- identify how this article meets three of the criteria (directed writing)
-- pair discussion

Find a non-feature article about a topic that interests you
-- read it
-- identify three criteria which this article does not meet (directed writing)
-- pair discussion

Large group discussion
How do wikipedians meet the standards established in the criteria?

Day Four Assignments

These assignments are due at the beginning of Day Five.

1) Finish reviewing and responding to the drafts within your Peer Response Group. Work in a a new window or tab on your computer when editing the your peers' drafts (rather than trying to edit from within course wiki on the D2L page). Place this URL in the address bar of the new window or tab: http://engl1111.pbworks.com/Wikipedia+Debate+peer+response+and+final+drafts-+Kuhne

2) Read and review the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis assignment definition.

Day Four Class Notes

Housekeeping

Organize groups and explain future group process (30 min)
Upload Wikipedia Debate drafts to course wiki.
Discuss process and issues with code ("cleaning" documents by using Notepad (.txt); copy-and-paste the .txt. version into wiki) and wiki.

Peer Response

Read Peer Response Overview

Discuss process and Wikipedia Debate peer response guidelines
--using color (highlighting and font) for editing; the comments function

In-class norming and practice peer response (groups and individual)

MLA

(Using drafts)

signal phrases
punctuation
in-text citation

• In-text Citations: The Basics (Purdue University)
• Citing sources in the text (Cornell University)
• Documenting Sources: MLA In-Text Citations (dianahacker.com)

Works Cited

Introduction to summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting.

For suggestions about the art of summarizing check out the following resources:

• How to Summarize (University of Pittsburgh)
• Learn to Summarize (University of Houston- Victoria)
• Summary: using it wisely (University of North Carolina)

Check out these resources for more information on paraphrasing:

• Paraphrasing (Duke University)
• Paraphrase and Summary (University of Toronto)
• Successful vs. unsuccessful paraphrases (UW-Madison)
• Paraphrase: Write it in your own words (Purdue University)
• Paraphrase or Quotation? (Monash University)

[photo: audience by Herr Josh]

Day Three Assignments

This is what you must have completed for Day Four:

-Make sure you have access to a digital copy of your Wikipedia Debate draft at the beginning of class (e.g. flash drive, email attachment, and so on). We will be loading them to the course wiki at the beginning of class.

Day Three Class Notes

Housekeeping: Did everyone get registered with Wikipedia?

Sample paragraphs from the Practice Analytical Paragraph Discussion for the analytical paragraph structure and discuss. (35 minutes total)

Based on class discussion, make changes to your post in the Practice Analytical Paragraph Discussion using the Edit function in D2L.
--Questions about analytical paragraph structure?

Prewriting (20 minutes)--Explore a position regarding Wikipedia.

Ex: As we move from seeing Wikipedia as only a resource to an online
intellectual community, students are more than ready to accompany us.

Ex: Wikipedia is an excellent place to start research.

Topic and Comment: Arguable? Focused?
Practice writing thesis statements.

Share with one other person.
-Can you see the topic and comment clearly?
-Is this an arguable statement?
-Is it focused?
-Write thesis statements on white board and discuss/revise as class

If time allows - University of North Carolina thesis statements

If time allows - MLA--introducing signal phrases, punctuation, and in-text citations.

Day Two Assignments

This is what you must do for Day Three:

1. Return to the Wikipedia tutorial and review the rest of the tutorial pages (formatting, talk pages, and wrap-up) (20)
2. Review again the analytical paragraph presentation - you can find this in the Course D2L within the Content feature (15)
3. Read carefully the Wikipedia Debate assignment definition (15)
4. Do the Practice Analytical Paragraph Discussion (Course D2L – Discussion): This is due by 8:00 am on Monday, June 8.