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Hi Gonobo, I am teaching Writing 101 at the University of Montana-Western in Dillon, MT. My students and I are working on a Wikipedia project. Their assignment is to choose a stub to "complete" - they have to write 750-1000 words, with 3-4 sources included, and then try to get it published on Wikipedia. I am in over my head on this one! I was wondering if you are available to mentor? Thanks, Lisa Bullard

P.S. The school here runs on a block schedule - so classes meet 3 hours per day, 5 days per week, meaning it is fairly intensive. The students assignment is due this coming Tuesday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.131.146.137 (talk) 16:32, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Gonobo, I am teaching Writing 101 at the University of Montana-Western in Dillon, MT. My students and I are working on a Wikipedia project. Their assignment is to choose a stub to "complete" - they have to write 750-1000 words, with 3-4 sources included, and then try to get it published on Wikipedia. I am in over my head on this one! I was wondering if you are available to mentor? Thanks, Lisa Bullard

P.S. The school here runs on a block schedule - so classes meet 3 hours per day, 5 days per week, meaning it is fairly intensive. The students assignment is due this coming Tuesday.

P.P.S. - Sorry to duplicate the message (total newbie here!) but I forgot to click "Watch this page" and also I created a user account. Thanks again!

LMB333 (talk) 16:47, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi LMB333. I'd be happy to try and help. If you have a lesson plan or materials that you have given the students, seeing that might help me understand where you are at and how I can help. It might be on the late side to set up a course page for you, but it would be good to have a central page from which to coordinate. If you haven't read it, the instructor orientation outlines a typical schedule for a class project. If the students haven't yet selected articles that they plan on expanding, I would suggest having them select from Category:Stub-Class Montana articles or one of the subcategories that interest them in Category:Stub-Class articles. I'd advise against having them edit any medical articles, because the referencing requirements are more stringent. Feel free to contact me via email if you'd prefer or we could arrange to meet on IRC. Gobōnobo ^{+ c} 20:56, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Gobonobo,

Thank you for your help! I wish I would have contacted you sooner! The list of stubs you linked to would have been helpful for the students. I sent them to a much bigger list of stubs, which overwhelmed them! I would be happy to send you the assignment sheet, but am not sure how to do that. Can I attach it here?

I had them do this assignment:

I think it could be very helpful to have a class page. We are going to the computer lab today so I can have them do that, although I'm not sure how...

To give you some sense of where they are at with the assignment: As of today, they should have chosen a stub they want to add 750-1000 words to. They should be coming to class with 4 sources, ideally 3 are "academic" sources and 1 is a "popular" source. By tomorrow they need to turn in an annotated bibliography on their sources. On Monday, their rough draft is due. On Tuesday they will be turning in a revised copy, and on Wednesday, our last day of class, I am hoping they can add their content to Wikipedia.

Thanks again! 150.131.146.229 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:18, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

I've set up a course page at Wikipedia:USEP/Courses/Writing 101 (University of Montana-Western). Feel free to add to it or change it how you would like. Once the students have selected usernames, please be sure the usernames are added to that page (by them or yourself). The course page has a link to an orientation for students.

Ideally, we'd have a chance to preview the students' rough drafts so that any obvious problems can be addressed in the revision process. If they publish their rough drafts in their user spaces, I can commit to reviewing them. Be sure that the "popular" source isn't a blog or a tumblr (newspaper and magazine articles should be fine). Gobōnobo ^{+ c} 19:29, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! Students are adding their usernames to the course page as I type! We are excited to have a course page, and the students were very excited that you will be able to review their articles! They can add them to their userpages on Monday. I will ask them to complete the orientation over the weekend. Thank you again!

LMB333 (talk) 21:09, 11 October 2012 (UTC)