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- Course name
- The Research Paper: Octavia Butler's Fledgling
- Institution
- LaGuardia Community College--CUNY
- Instructor
- Ximena Gallardo C.
- Subject
- English/Composition
- Course dates
- 2015-03-06 – 2015-06-12
- Approximate number of student editors
- 28
This course focuses on the investigative and evaluative process required to write effective research documents. Students will learn to collect, analyze, and use sources as well as to develop ideas by drafting, revising, citing and documenting sources, critiquing their work, and editing final drafts.
This particular section will emphasize the difference between types of research writing by having students collaborate in creating a substantial encyclopedic entry in Wikipedia as well as writing individual thesis-based research papers.
Timeline
[edit]Week 1 (March 6-13): Introduction
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In Class 1. Overview of the course and how Wikipedia will be used. Example of the page we will attempt to emulate: Octavia Butler's Kindred. (WP Basics slides 1-3). 2. Online privacy; choosing a username; the advantages of using a pseudonym. (Do not know the meaning of the word? See a definition HERE. Note: To be effective, the pseudonym should be different from your name, nicknames, or your regular usernames. For more information on usernames, see "Guidance for new users" in Wikipedia's Username policy. 3. Use the handout "Welcome to Wikipedia" to complete the "Welcome to Wikipedia" quiz on Blackboard. 4. Create a Wikipedia account (class packet p. 1). If you are having trouble creating the account, talk to me. 5. Submit your username information to THIS FORM. 6. Enroll in the class by clicking "Enroll" above. 7. Create your Userpage ("Welcome to Wikipedia," p. 14 or class packet, p.1) by writing a short introduction of yourself to other Wikipedians. This introduction can be as revealing as you want to make it. For example, here is the "About me" section of my Userpage. Remember you can always make your Userpage more elaborate as you learn more about editing Wikipedia. Preview the page before clicking "Save page." 8. Create your Sandbox (WP Basics slides 4-10): Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Citation Practice." Here you will compose a References section with two footnotes for secondary sources on Octavia Butler’s work:
9. Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Journal Entries." Take a few minutes to write Research Journal Entry #1 on what you did and learned today.
(Lose your copies? Find them on Blackboard).
Student Banner[edit]Note: To mark you as participating in this course, I will add this banner to the top of your Wikipedia userpage
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Week 2 (March 13-20): Butler's Backgrounds
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In Class If you missed the first class, please complete steps 3-7 of the Week 1 class meeting during class today. Steps 8-9 as well as the assignments for Week 1 are due March 20 before class. Check the presentation "Wikipedia Basics" on Blackboard to figure out how to do citations in your Sandbox. 1. Swift review + more background information:
2. What to expect from the novel Fledgling: Class brainstorm on vampire narratives HERE. Responses HERE. 3. Organizing the sandbox 4. Editorial Work: Prewriting
1. Read Fledgling, chapters 1-6 (pp.1-55). If you do not have the novel yet, you can download these chapters from our Blackboard class. Otherwise, it is available at the LAGCC Bookstore. 2. Complete the Quiz for chapters 1-6 on Blackboard. 3. a. Review the handout "Wikimarkup cheatsheet" (also on class packet, p. 2).
4. a. Read the handout "Using Wikipedia talk pages."
Read "Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources" (packet, p. 11) and "Signal Phrases" (packet, p. 16). Complete the Paraphrasing Quiz (handout; copy on Blackboard). Turn it in at the beginning of class on Friday, March 27. |
Week 3 (March 20-27): Butler's Notability
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In Class 1. Editorial work: prewriting. Complete Research Assignment #2:
2. Go to your Sandbox. Under the section "Research Journal Entries," write Research Journal Entries #2 and #3 on what you did and learned last class and today. 3. Review the draft photo permission letter.
1. Read Fledgling, chapters 7-15 (pp. 57-165). 2. Complete the Quiz for chapters 7-15 on Blackboard. 3. Review the handout "Wikimarkup cheatsheet" (also on class packet, p. 2). 4. Log on to Wikipedia. Go to your Sandbox. Under "Fledgling Summaries," create a Level 3 Heading titled "Chapters 7-15." In your own words ONLY, write a summary of what happens in these chapters. Do NOT quote. Do NOT closely paraphrase summaries from outside sources, as this is against Wikipedia policy, as explained in the handout "Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia." Preview the page before clicking "Save page." 5. Read "Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources" (packet, p. 11) and "Signal Phrases" (packet, p. 16). Complete the Paraphrasing Quiz (handout; copy on Blackboard). Turn it in at the beginning of class on Friday, March 27.
All students who have Wikipedia user accounts and userpages, have practiced posting on their sandboxes and on talk pages, and are listed on the course page by March 20 at midnight receive 25 points.
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Week 4 (March 27-April 2): Drafting Butler's Biography
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In Class 1. As a class,
3. Go to your Sandbox. Under the section "Research Journal Entries," write Research Journal Entry #4 on what you did and learned today.
1. Read Fledgling, chapters 16-21 (pp. 167-229). 2. Complete the Quiz for chapters 16-21 on Blackboard. 3. Review the handout "Wikimarkup cheatsheet" (also on class packet, p. 2). 5. Log on to Wikipedia. Go to your Sandbox. Under "Fledgling Summaries," create a Level 3 Heading titled "Chapters 16-21." In your own words ONLY, write a summary of what happens in these chapters. Do NOT quote. Do NOT closely paraphrase summaries from outside sources, as this is against Wikipedia policy, as explained in the handout "Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia." Preview the page before clicking "Save page."
Complete Research Assignment # 3: Read and annotate pages 1-23 of Dr. Joy Sanchez-Taylor's dissertation chapter "Octavia Butler’s Fledgling and Daniel Jose Older’s "Phantom Overload: the Ethnic Undead" (copy on Blackboard). Then, complete THIS QUESTIONNAIRE.
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Week 5 (April 17-24): Drafting Butler's Biography II
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1. Read my instructions for your team's work today (in blue at the top of your Workspace document). Ask me questions.
3. Go to your Sandbox. Under the section "Research Journal Entries," write Research Journal Entry #5 on what you did and learned today.
1. Read Fledgling, chapters 22-Epilogue (pp. 231-310). 2. Complete the Quiz for chapters 22-Epilogue on Blackboard. 3. Review the handout "Wikimarkup cheatsheet" (also on class packet, p. 2). 4. Log on to Wikipedia. Go to your Sandbox. Under "Fledgling Summaries," create a Level 3 Heading titled "Chapters 22-Epilogue." In your own words ONLY, write a summary of what happens in these chapters. Do NOT quote. Do NOT closely paraphrase summaries from outside sources, as this is against Wikipedia policy, as explained in the handout "Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia." Preview the page before clicking "Save page." 5. Complete Research Assignment # 3: Read and annotate pages 1-23 of Dr. Joy Sanchez-Taylor's dissertation chapter "Octavia Butler’s Fledgling and Daniel Jose Older’s "Phantom Overload: the Ethnic Undead" (copy on Blackboard). Then, complete THIS QUESTIONNAIRE. |
Week 6 (April 24- May 1): Drafting Butler's Bio III/Beginning Fledgling
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1. Team 1 will pair with Team 4 and Team 2 with Team 3 to proofread completed sections. You should go to Blackboard, download the completed sections for both teams, and print them out. 2. Copyedit and code your completed sections using wikimarkup. Copy coded sections to your team's sandbox.
3. Search or download the critical essay assigned to you for Research Assignment 4. Download the questions to answer for the essay from Blackboard. 4. Go to your Sandbox. Under the section "Research Journal Entries," write Research Journal Entry #6 on what you did and learned today.
Complete Research Assignment 4: Search or download your critical essay on Fledgling. Annotate it and then go to your Sandbox. Create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Assignment 4." Type the answers to all the questions for your assigned reading. (Questions on Blackboard)
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Week 7 (May 1-8): Working with Sources
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1. Review the paraphrasing handout. In pairs, play the extra credit exercise The Ultimate Paraphrase 2. Research Assignment 5, Part I (20 points of the 40): Get together with the other people who read the same article as you. You will have 30 minutes to prepare your group's presentation of the article by answering the questions in your workspace on the course's Talk page. 3. As a class, review Butler's biography on Wikipedia and vote on what sections to keep as they are. 4. Working in teams, post your revised section from your team sandbox to Butler's Biography (except for Team 5, which needs to wait). 5. Read the quotes in Team 5's sandbox. Browse the revised article. Vote on where in the article the quotes should go so Team 5 posts them.
Complete Research Assignment 6: Annotate the review of Fledgling assigned to you. In your Sandbox create a Level 2 Heading titled "Fledgling review." Then
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Week 8 (May 8-15): Working with Sources/Planning the article
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In class 1. Research Assignment 5, Part I (replay): Get together with the other people who read the same article as you. You will have 30 minutes to prepare your group's presentation of the article by answering the questions in your workspace on the course's Talk page. 2. a) Research Assignment 5, Part II (20 points of the 40)--Article presentations : You will have up to 10 minutes to present your article to the class. b) Revise synopsis of the article based on the oral presentation and discussion. 3. Vote on the importance of themes using THIS FORM. 4. Research Assignment 6: Get together with the other people who read the same review as you. You will have 20 minutes to answer the questions in your workspace on the course's Talk page. 5. Go to your Sandbox. Under the section "Research Journal Entries," write Research Journal Entry #8 on what you did and learned today.
1. Submit your first, second, and third choice for an Editing Team using THIS FORM.
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Week 9 (May 15-22): Drafting sections for Fledgling
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1. Submit your first, second, and third choice for an Editing Team using THIS FORM. 2. Creating topic sentences for your section and lecture/discussion with Dr. Joy Sanchez-Taylor. 3. Editing sections for Fledgling article. Please sign your contributions with your usernames. Editing Team 1 Workspaces james johnson, lajevelyn, mona's mistake, mazuyuki eizoku, purplelover Editing Team 2 Workspaces lagccstudent, owen zeph, princessmisshel, beautiful soul, japanize myself, divergent forever Editing Team 3 Workspaces houston jay, dr. droog, ebeastmond, xrush, sportsfan, Najahlovespink Editing Team 4 Workspaces liberatedminds, unconsciouseclecticism, santuros, elzieburg, apache50 4. Go to your Sandbox. Under the section "Research Journal Entries," write Research Journal Entry #9 on what you did and learned today.
1. Submit a complete first draft of your section to your workspace (25 points). With the exception of Characters and Plot, which have their own rules, your submission must be
2. Thinking about the upcoming Reflective Essay. See online copy of instructions HERE. The first draft of the essay will be due on Blackboard by midnight, Friday May 29. |
Week 10 (May 22-29): Drafting sections for Fledgling II
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In Class 1. Editing sections for Fledgling article. Please sign your contributions with your usernames.
Editing Team 2 Workspaces
Editing Team 3 Workspaces
Editing Team 4 Workspaces
2. With my permission, transfer the section to your team's sandbox. Format it so the paragraphs breaks show, and code it so that the references show as footnotes and the links go to the wikipages or website they should.
Assignment due May 29 by midnight Submit the first draft of the Research Reflection Essay (1000 words) to Blackboard. (75 points) Copy of Instructions HERE. |
Week 11 (May 29-June 5): Drafting III / Posting to the Fledgling article
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In Class
Editing Team 2 Workspaces Editing Team 3 Workspaces
Editing Team 4 Workspaces 2. Revise the Research Reflection Essay.
By 9:00AM, submit the last draft of the Research Reflection Essay (1000 words minimum) to Blackboard. Under the area "Text Submission," explain what changes you have made to this draft that distinguish it from the previous draft. Please use bullet points. (150 points) This draft will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
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Week 12 (June 5-12): Reviewing and revising
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In Class 1. A. Creating the "Further reading" section. Find the articles assigned to your team--most of them are in EBSCO, Artemis, or JSTOR. Copy the citation information and paste it in Team 2's sandbox under the section "Further reading." The entry must be in the correct place using alphabetical order by last name and must be formatted correctly (quotation marks for titles of article, italics for titles of books, journals, websites). For those items that have a website link, please add the link to the title of the article. Team 1
Team 2
Team 4
Your team should submit at least two quotes from the novel that it deems worthy of adding to the article. Please include the page number where it can be found and add a short explanation of its importance. I strongly encourage the teams to find quotes connected to their sections, but other types are fine as well.
Read the comments posted by Dr. Sanchez-Taylor's class on Fledgling's Talk page. For any suggestion to make a change in the article, type an answer either saying that you have made it or explaining why it cannot be done. A reply to another user requires that you
Now go to the talk page of each user who commented on the article and give them some WikiLove for their work, whether you followed the suggestion or not.
By 9:00AM, submit the last draft of the Research Reflection Essay (1000 words minimum) to Blackboard. Under the area "Text Submission," explain what changes you have made to this draft that distinguish it from the previous draft. Please use bullet points. (150 points) This draft will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
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Last Meeting (June 12)
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- In class
1. Wikipedia last words
- a. Article statistics
- b. Translating articles from the English Wikipedia into other languages.
- c. Attending or presenting at WikiConference USA 2015
- d. Attending the Training the Trainers editathon sponsored by Afrocrowd at Brooklyn Public Library Main Branch (10 Grand Army Plaza) on 6/20. Training the Trainers is an advanced editathon for students who have already received instruction with Wikipedia. It will allow Afrocrowd to meet and get to know potential candidates for the Afrocrowd Project Manager position. For more on Afrocrowd, visit their Wikipedia meetup page: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd
2. Reviewing your grades
3. Completing extra credit
- --Adding references and quotes to Kindred and Fledgling (depends on assignation; some were not completed)
- --Adding "Point of view" and "The creation of alternative communities": unconsciouseclecticism
- List of coded references for Octavia E. Butler's Biography
- Sandbox for Team 2
- --Uploading an image of the book's cover to Fledgling: andyyecua
- --Uploading Leslie Howle's donated photograph to the Butler article. Use Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
- --Adding footnotes to "The survivor as hero" in the Butler article
4. Depositing your Research Reflection Essay into Digication
- a. Download a copy of your revised Research Reflection Essay from Blackboard onto the computer's desktop.
- b. Open the essay and delete the header/heading. Save it on the desktop again.
- c. Read the instructions on how to deposit an artifact in Digication HERE.
- d. Deposit your revised Research Reflection Essayin the Digication site at https://intranet.laguardia.edu/eportfoliosso/