Wikipedia:School and university projects/Eng 22
What follows is information about the Eng 22 (Intro to Expository Writing )class I taught in the Summer 2008 for the Upward Bound Program at Leeward Community College in Pearl City, Hawaii. The class was 5 weeks long. We met for 2.5 hours, four times a week. Nine students were in the class: 3 from Waianae High School, 2 from James Campbell High School, 2 from Waipahu High School and 1 each from Yuba City High School and Oroville High School.
Class Assignments[edit]
- The first assignment was to describe and evaluate a Wikipedia article. For our purpose, the article was about the high school the class member attended. Essay instructions
- In the second assignment, students compared and contrasted two Wikipedia articles. For our class, students compared the Wikipedia article about their high school with another Wikipedia article about another high school. Essay instructions
- A third assignment had students write an annotated bibliography on a topic listed at Wikipedia:Requested articles page. Essay instructions
- Next, for the fourth assignment, students had to do a minor edit on the Wikipedia article about their high school.
- The final project was to write an article for Wikipedia, using two comparable Wikipedia articles as models. The new article was based on the research done in the third assignment aiming at Wikipedia: Good article criteria. This final project was done in stages, with drafts of the articles posted at each student's Wikipedia userspace (see below for links to these). Once these drafts had been worked on and peer & instructor reviewed and edited, they were posted to Wikipedia mainspace for the world to see, edit, comment on, and learn from.
Article topics[edit]
- User:Banga96792 wrote the article Authority Problem
- User:Ub_student wrote the article Applewood cheese
- User:hewaiualani wrote the article Theodore Heuck
- User:Chelly123 wrote the article California slang
- User:gmoniyee wrote the article Civil War rifles
- User:ubenglish wrote the article karmaloop.com
- User:hiubenglish22 expanded the stub Li hing mui
- User:Kiara56 wrote the article Personal Freedom
- User:maiv-yias wrote the article Pascal Dangin
- User:Eng22 wrote the article Harry Statham
As time and energy permit. I will add more commentary and discussion of what went well and what I might have done differently to make the class and assignments work better.