Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Washington/Astro482 Spring 2018 (Spring)
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- Course name
- Astro482 Spring 2018
- Institution
- University of Washington
- Instructor
- Paula Szkody
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Scientific Writing
- Course dates
- 2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-05-30 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 6
This course involves students learning how to write their resumes, scientific articles for the public and papers for a scientific journal. They will review published material as well as work of fellow students. Wikipedia will be a week long exercise in copyediting for wikipedia versus peer review in scientific journals.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 26 March 2018 | Wednesday, 28 March 2018
- Assignment - Learn about Wikipedia
Get a wikipedia account and look over the training modules for wikipedia.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 2 April 2018 | Wednesday, 4 April 2018
- Assignment - Find an article to copyedit
Find an article related to your research topic that you can copyedit and start making your changes.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 9 April 2018 | Wednesday, 11 April 2018
- Assignment - Finish changes to your article
Make your final copyedit changes to your article.