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Students will be studying some of the ways in which the context and the 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, and speech acts.
Working to build up Wikipedia articles students will find, assess, cite, and contribute verifiable definitions and references in order to enhance wiki pages on designated topics in pragmatics and linguistics.
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.)
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. Start by doing the two training modules above. Make sure you are logged in to Wikipedia when you do them, so I'll be able to tell you've completed the training.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Here's some helpful resources:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Everyone should have finished the first three Training Modules and done the Evaluation exercise (while logged in).
This training will walk you throught the process of how to add a citation to back up an existing claim on a Wikipedia page.
Your goal this week is to add a citation to some exisitng page. If you need help finding a different page that needs a citation added, use Citation Hunt:
Everyone should have completed the fourth of the assigned training modules (Adding citations) which includes practice on adding a citation to an existing page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
Everyone has chosen an article so they can begin researching and working in their article drafts.
Everyone has begun writing in their article drafts.
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
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.
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.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
This essay should be submitted through Canvas. It's replacing our originally planned in-class presesntations. Please look over the prompt in the assignment above, but repsond to the prompt in Canvas to create your submisson!
As we move towards Finals Week, and you finish your reflective essay, remember that you can contintue to edit your page, or any other Wikipedia page, anytime in the future. As you read more about pragmatics and other fields of linguistics, share your knowledge!
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contact |
![]() | 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 the 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, and speech acts.
Working to build up Wikipedia articles students will find, assess, cite, and contribute verifiable definitions and references in order to enhance wiki pages on designated topics in pragmatics and linguistics.
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.)
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. Start by doing the two training modules above. Make sure you are logged in to Wikipedia when you do them, so I'll be able to tell you've completed the training.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Here's some helpful resources:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Everyone should have finished the first three Training Modules and done the Evaluation exercise (while logged in).
This training will walk you throught the process of how to add a citation to back up an existing claim on a Wikipedia page.
Your goal this week is to add a citation to some exisitng page. If you need help finding a different page that needs a citation added, use Citation Hunt:
Everyone should have completed the fourth of the assigned training modules (Adding citations) which includes practice on adding a citation to an existing page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
Everyone has chosen an article so they can begin researching and working in their article drafts.
Everyone has begun writing in their article drafts.
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
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.
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.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
This essay should be submitted through Canvas. It's replacing our originally planned in-class presesntations. Please look over the prompt in the assignment above, but repsond to the prompt in Canvas to create your submisson!
As we move towards Finals Week, and you finish your reflective essay, remember that you can contintue to edit your page, or any other Wikipedia page, anytime in the future. As you read more about pragmatics and other fields of linguistics, share your knowledge!