Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Behavioral Ecology (Joan Strassmann)/Assignment 8

WikiProject Assignment 8: Peer review of 3 entries

Behavioral Ecology, Biology 372, Teacher: Strassmann, TAs: Adu-Oppong, Scott, Sukum

In this assignment you will review 3 entries by other students that are not in your group.

When is it due? Thursday 31 October 2013 11:59 PM

What is it worth? It is worth 20 points out of the 600 total for the entire Wikipedia assignment.

What exactly do I turn in? You turn in a document on Blackboard named <LastNameFirstName>Wiki31Oct with the following: 1. Your name. 2. The honor code. 3. Names and links to the 3 entries you review. They should not come from your group and should not be the same ones you did before. You must choose them by signing up on the main course page. 4. A clear description of what you have changed, what we should look for.

What do I do? By now you should be fairly comfortable with editing on Wikipedia. This is your chance to help out your fellow classmates, and shine yourself. It is also a chance to read more broadly than your single chapter, even if it is just out of the textbook, or Mockingbird Tales. Use your expertise to read your classmates’s entries. Feel free to add material, edit material, and put comments on the talk pages. It is hard to give a specific rubric as to what you should do, because you will encounter variable entries. What you should do is improve them. You can do this by adding material that is missing, by editing the writing or organization to make it more clear, and by contributing to the talk page.

Should I add headings in the Wikipedia entry? Yes, if necessary. Headings are valuable and your perspective may point to additional headings that may be needed. Just be sure that if you put more in, you also add them to the outline at the beginning.

Can I change areas of the Wikipedia entry on this organism that are not behavior? Yes, you can change anything you like on this or other organisms. You may add things that are missing like geographic distribution, diet, taxonomy, appearance, or links to Wikimedia photos, for example. But these additions will not count towards this assignment, which is about behavior. Anything you add should follow the Wikipedia principles, hold a neutral tone, and be well referenced. Remember, the more words we add, the more likely our class will shine among all Wikipedia classes.

Do I have to actually change something on Wikipedia? Yes. Add your modifications to the appropriate page. Include the course banner, if it is not already there. Briefly describe what you have done on the talk page of each of the articles you peer review.