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Students will be studying some of the ways in which the context and form of an utterance interact to affect speaker's intended meaning beyond literal word meaning. Our main topics this term will include reference, deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and the signaling of information structure through word order.
Working with Wikipedia entries, you'll find, assess, cite, and contribute verifiable definitions and references in order to build up wiki pages on designated topics in pragmatics
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to our course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
1. Complete the "Evaluating Articles and Sources" training (linked below).
2. Create a section in
your sandbox titled "Article evaluation," where you'll leave notes about your observations and what you've learned.
3. Choose an article on Wikipedia to read and evaluate from the set of articles related to pragmatics that is sent to you from Dr. Stvan via Blackboard. Don’t just answer “yes” or “no,” but write out details that illustrate your observations. (Answer as many as apply to your article, but don't feel limited to these--you can include other observations, too!):
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
By Sat. Feb. 3, everyone should have completed the first three assigned training modules.
1. Complete the "Sources and Citations" training (linked below).
2. Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this step:
By Sat. Feb. 10, everyone should have completed the fourth of the assigned training modules (Sources and Citations).
It's time to choose an article to improve!
1) Review page 6 of your
Editing Wikipedia guidebook.
2) Look over the articles in the Articles tab for our course (Go to the bottom of that page to find the section called "Available Articles"). After seeing who your group members will be (check the class slides from Tues. Feb. 13), compare notes with your group. When you find the the article(s) that you all want to work on, email Dr. Stvan. She will assign it to you and the other members of your group. This part is due by Friday, Feb 16 at 10pm.
3) Depending on your topic, you will want to refer to one of the guides for improving articles in these links:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Editing_Wikipedia_Articles_Biographies.pdf
---A) In
your sandbox, write a few sentences about what you plan to contribute to the selected article. Include these components. Think back to when you did an article critique. What can you add?
---B) Also post some of your ideas to the article's talk page so that you might get feedback.
Here comes the research part: Compile a list of relevant, reliable books, journal articles, or other sources related to this topic. Then,
---C) post that bibliography to the talk page of the article you'll be working on, and in your sandbox. Make sure to check in on the Talk page to see if anyone has advice to help you shape your bibliography.
Steps A), B), and C), are due by Sunday, Feb. 18 by 10pm
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing the articles assigned to them, so that every group's article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
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!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Present about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
Everyone should have finished all the work they'll do on Wikipedia for this term, and be ready for the final round of grading.
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contactwikiedu.org |
This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
Students will be studying some of the ways in which the context and form of an utterance interact to affect speaker's intended meaning beyond literal word meaning. Our main topics this term will include reference, deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and the signaling of information structure through word order.
Working with Wikipedia entries, you'll find, assess, cite, and contribute verifiable definitions and references in order to build up wiki pages on designated topics in pragmatics
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to our course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
1. Complete the "Evaluating Articles and Sources" training (linked below).
2. Create a section in
your sandbox titled "Article evaluation," where you'll leave notes about your observations and what you've learned.
3. Choose an article on Wikipedia to read and evaluate from the set of articles related to pragmatics that is sent to you from Dr. Stvan via Blackboard. Don’t just answer “yes” or “no,” but write out details that illustrate your observations. (Answer as many as apply to your article, but don't feel limited to these--you can include other observations, too!):
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
By Sat. Feb. 3, everyone should have completed the first three assigned training modules.
1. Complete the "Sources and Citations" training (linked below).
2. Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this step:
By Sat. Feb. 10, everyone should have completed the fourth of the assigned training modules (Sources and Citations).
It's time to choose an article to improve!
1) Review page 6 of your
Editing Wikipedia guidebook.
2) Look over the articles in the Articles tab for our course (Go to the bottom of that page to find the section called "Available Articles"). After seeing who your group members will be (check the class slides from Tues. Feb. 13), compare notes with your group. When you find the the article(s) that you all want to work on, email Dr. Stvan. She will assign it to you and the other members of your group. This part is due by Friday, Feb 16 at 10pm.
3) Depending on your topic, you will want to refer to one of the guides for improving articles in these links:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Editing_Wikipedia_Articles_Biographies.pdf
---A) In
your sandbox, write a few sentences about what you plan to contribute to the selected article. Include these components. Think back to when you did an article critique. What can you add?
---B) Also post some of your ideas to the article's talk page so that you might get feedback.
Here comes the research part: Compile a list of relevant, reliable books, journal articles, or other sources related to this topic. Then,
---C) post that bibliography to the talk page of the article you'll be working on, and in your sandbox. Make sure to check in on the Talk page to see if anyone has advice to help you shape your bibliography.
Steps A), B), and C), are due by Sunday, Feb. 18 by 10pm
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing the articles assigned to them, so that every group's article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
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!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Present about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
Everyone should have finished all the work they'll do on Wikipedia for this term, and be ready for the final round of grading.