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How to get started • Worklist • Source & article lists • Creating new article drafts • Resources • Events • Past spotlights Spotlight on Rhetorics of Climate Change and Environmental Activism WikiProject Writing logo in green For Earth Month, WikiProject Writing will focus on improving public understanding and coverage of research on the rhetorics of climate change. We aim to combat misinformation and disinformation surrounding climate change and climate justice, by contributing the expertise of our fields to a range of vital, general interest, and field specific Wikipedia articles. This month, our goals are to … expand and improve a core set of high-traffic articles on topics of vital significance to the general public with a focus on citing and integrating research and scholarship by scholars publishing research on rhetorics of climate change and environmental activism create or expand and improve general interest articles related to climate change as well as field-specific articles in writing studies and related fields expand our lists of articles to articles to improve and create with attention to research and scholarship by writing studies scholarship related to climate change Please join us! How to get started   If you have five minutes . . . Suggest an article by adding it to the article lists in the table below Visit an article on our list and add a few red links to missing articles Visit an article on our list and add a few links between existing articles Visit an article on our list and add a citation If you have thirty minutes . . . Add a sentence or short paragraph with citations to an article Suggest revisions or additions on the article talk page If you have an hour . . . Read a scholarly article and cite it in an existing Wikipedia article Start a draft of a missing Wikipedia article Worklist   To coordinate our efforts and promote collaboration, we encourage you to let everyone know what article or parts of an article you’re working on. Here are a few great ways to use this list: Add articles you are working on along with a note about your plans and where you might like help. Add links to any draft articles you've created. (NB: When you create a draft others are able to edit this page alongside you. Whether or not you invite others to collaborate on the draft, it is important to mention that you are currently working on it so we can avoid the creation of the same article multiple times.) Reply to others if you would like to collaborate with them. You can respond below their comment with a note about your plans for contributions. Whenever you post a note to other editors, be sure to sign it with ~~~~ to leave a digital signature. If you are responding to someone else's comment and are not sure how to format your reply using wikitext, follow the example listed at WP:THREAD. You will also find directions in the markup when you click on 'Edit source.' ... Source & article list   This month we are starting from scholarship. Below you'll find links to each academic journal article published in the special issue of Enculturation titled "Rhetorics and Literacies of Climate Change." Alongside each journal article we've suggested a few vital, general interest, and field specific Wikipedia articles that might benefit from their expertise. We invite you to edit and contribute to the Wikipedia articles listed here and to suggest more. If you see a topic or person not mentioned here based on the article listed, please add this to our list. If you are unsure about whether a specific scholar or topic would be considered notable by the larger Wikipedian community, review the notability criteria for academics or leave a note on our talk page to ask other members of WikiProject Writing what they think. Article Vital articles General interest articles Field-specific articles Schell, Hogg, et al. “Introduction: Rhetorics and Literacies of Climate Change.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 1, Nov. 2020. Environmentalism Climate change education Ecological literacy Environmental justice Environmental communication Ecocomposition Material rhetoric Clary-Lemon, Jennifer. “Examining Material Rhetorics of Species at Risk: Infrastructural Mitigations as Non-Human Arguments.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 2, Nov. 2020. Environmentalism Environmental communication Species at Risk Act Political ecology Public rhetoric (geography) Rhetorical situation Shivener, Rich and Dustin W. Edwards. “The Environmental Unconscious of Digital Composing: Mapping Climate Change Rhetorics in Data Center Ecologies.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 3, Nov. 2020. Environmentalism Environmental communication Google data centers Rhetoric of science Digital rhetoric Comstock, Michelle. “Choreographing Climate Migration in the Wilderness/Rural Corridor: Yellowstone’s Invisible Boundaries Exhibit.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 4, Nov. 2020. Environmentalism Human impact on the environment Traditional ecological knowledge Rhetoric of science Migration rhetoric Anderson, Patsch, et al. “Eroding the Future: Telling the Story of Sand Mining and Climate Justice in Coastal South Africa.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 5, Nov. 2020. Climate change Climate justice Climate change and indigenous peoples Environmental justice Ecological literacy Digital rhetoric Spacial rhetoric Collins Bates, Julie. “Local Expertise, Global Effects: Amplifying Activist Arguments for Climate Change Action.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 6, Nov. 2020. Communication Environmental racism Environmental justice Individual and political action on climate change Little Village Environmental Justice Organization Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Decolonial feminism Soto Vega, Karrieann. ”Colonial Causes and Consequences: Climate Change and Climate Chaos in Puerto Rico.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 7, Nov. 2020. Environmentalism Exploitation colonialism Climate change in Puerto Rico Individual and political action on climate change Feminist rhetoric Boyles, Christina, and Kyle Fields. "Resilience, Recovery, and Refusal: The (Un)tellable Narratives of post-María Puerto Rico.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 8, Nov. 2020. Environmentalism Narrative (Sovereignty-centered storytelling) Environmental racism Environmental justice Colonial rhetoric Digital rhetoric Baniya, Sweta. "Managing Environmental Risks in the Age of Climate Change: Rhetorical Agency and Ecological Literacies of Transnational Women During the April 2015 Nepal Earthquake.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 9, Nov. 2020. Feminism Narrative Transnationalism Climate change and gender April 2015 Nepal earthquake Ecological literacy Feminist rhetoric Brownlee, Yavanna M. "Relational Practices and Pedagogies in an Age of Climate Change: Engaging Students in Understanding Indigenous Ways of Knowing.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 10, Nov. 2020. Indigenous peoples Climate change and indigenous peoples Environmental sustainability Critical pedagogy Multimodality Megan, Von Bergen, and Bethany Mannon. "Talking Climate Faith: Katharine Hayhoe and Christian Rhetoric(s) of Climate Change.” Enculturation, vol. 32, no. 11, Nov. 2020. Katharine Hayhoe Environmental communication Religion and environmentalism Feminist rhetoric Invitational rhetoric Ethos

Creating new article drafts

When creating a new article, we recommend submitting it in the draft space for review and feedback from experienced Wikipedia editors. Here's how:

1. OPTION 1: Use the Wikipedia Article Wizard tutorial. This will walk you through step-by-step how to create a draft in a few easy steps.
2. OPTION 2: Draft the article in your sandbox. This can be found in the top right of any Wikipedia page next to the 'Talk' button. (NOTE: You must be logged in to find your sandbox).
   1. Use this space to create your article. When you feel that is ready to be reviewed, click 'More' on the top right next to the star icon. Then, select 'Move' from the dropdown menu.
   2. Under new title, select 'Draft' from the drop down menu.
   3. Next to this field, change the name of the article from your sandbox to the topic of the article (i.e. Tamika L. Carey).
   4. Under the 'Reason' field write 'Ready for draftspace.'
   5. Deselect the 'Move associated talk page' box.
   6. Select 'Move page' and you're done! Look out for a review of your draft article.

When you submit a draft, let us know on the talk page. We would love to review the article as well.

Resources

1. Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics
   
2. Citing your own work
   
3. Notability criteria for academic biographies
   
4. Notability criteria for academic and technical books
   
5. Tutorial on drafting articles

Events

The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly workshops & office hours. If you need some help getting started, have specific questions, or would like to bounce ideas off other academics, this is great space to do so:

Wikipedia as Public Scholarship

Friday 4/9 @ 12:00pm-1:30pm EST

Register here (limited to 15 participants)

This introductory workshop covers editing basics with particular attention to some of the specific concerns experts face on Wikipedia and discussion of how academics can use their expertise to advance knowledge equity online. Topics include navigating privacy issues, concerns around conflict of interest, and strategies for getting started with articles that need a lot of work.

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Getting Started with WikiProject Writing

Friday 4/23 @ 1:30pm-3:00pm EST

Register here (limited to 15 participants)

This intermediate workshop introduces WikiProject Writing as a collaborative space for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia articles related to our areas of expertise. Topics include defining the scope of WikiProject Writing by tagging articles, directing the priorities of WikiProject Writing by assessing articles, and adding to and working from our list of articles in need of work and creation.

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CCCC Wikipedian-in-Residence Office Hours

Mondays and Tuesdays from 11:00am-1:30pm EST one-on-one OR Fridays @ 11:00am-1:00pm EST drop-in group editing session

Sign up here

If you would like to discuss something Wikipedia-related one-on-one or get help with a Wikipedia article you’re working on, please feel free to sign up for my office hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays or email me to suggest another time. I host group office hours every other Friday if you want company while you edit so that you can bounce ideas off other experts - this is a great time for collaborative editing.

Past Spotlights

• March 2021: Centering BIPOC Women in Writing Studies