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| course_name = Linguistics in the Digital Age
| instructor_username = AmyFou
| instructor_realname = Amy Fountain
| support_staff = Ian (Wiki Ed)
| subject = Linguistics
| start_date = 2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC
| end_date = 2020-12-09 23:59:59 UTC
| institution = University of Arizona
| expected_students = 60
| assignment_page = Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/University_of_Arizona/Linguistics_in_the_Digital_Age_(Fall_2020)
| slug = University_of_Arizona/Linguistics_in_the_Digital_Age_(Fall_2020)
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Language is increasingly being produced and interpreted by machines and this fact ripples through humans’ lives in an increasing variety of linguistic interactions. This course asks students to explore the applications of linguistic analysis to the problems posed and opportunities created by the creation and dissemination of language in digital world. Students will learn about corpus-based and machine-learning approaches, including machine translation, to the production and understanding of language, and the ways these may interact to magnify or diminish some problematic properties of public speech, and reveal or conceal its authorship, especially in the digital world. In collaboration with the WikiEducation initiative, students will actively engage in the critical review of Wikipedia resources to assist in the identification and remediation of problematic language.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Mhickss Get Well Soon (song) Icon (Jaden Smith song), Snack
ChaserBerry Improvisation Snack
Courtneywray Suffix Dog whistle (politics)
Lcraddock2 Phoneme Lexicon
Emoore3 Mass communication Muja (alligator)
Connor.new Bound and free morphemes Muja (alligator)
AveryEllis Sentence (linguistics) Lexicon
Camilamada15 Physiology Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Haileylab Muja (alligator) Boeing, Implusivity
Kiaraaguilar Icon (Jaden Smith song) Morphophonology
Jonpaullarson Lexicon Muja (alligator)
Elenalvid Semantics Constructed script
Meganmckenna1 Inherently funny word Suffix
Olivia Luttinger Indo-Aryan Languages Filter (higher-order function)
Abc 49 Sentence Morphophonology
Albertogramirez Stocks Arizona Cardinals, Snack
GESAVI Pragmatics Affix
Trot Corn Syntax Cranberry morpheme
Mustafakhaled6 College football Inherently funny word
Oemo01 Morpheme, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Pragmatics
Ashshleigh Morpheme Sentence clause structure
LingClassmate Profanity Inflection
Norm1237 Engineering physics Snack
Chasethomas31 Content morpheme Suffix
Aidynbojorquez Etymology Cranberry morpheme
Lex simthe Cranberry morpheme Affix
Penscythe Orthography Etymology
HenryJPalmer Subject (grammar) Get Well Soon (song)
Annalieseg33 Sentence clause structure Suffix
HaydenMitteer Cord blood Arizona Cardinals, Engineering physics
Aileen Carrizoza Mexican WhiteBoy, No problemo, Mexican Whiteboy Sentence
SillyCrumb Violet Evergarden Garden-path sentence
Bclarke52402 Sentence function College football
Ivanvanek Hedgehog
DemiKilpatrick Physiology, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Etymology
Tanyajimenezf Null morpheme Phoneme
Lindsay20001202 Biolinguistics Morphology (linguistics)
Thomas J. Trommald Affix Morphophonology
Ali-AlhajiA7A Snack Isolating language
Superduperdog Implusivity Muja (alligator), Sentence
Kvazquez3 Lemma Orthography
Turambar10 Constructed script
RCoronado3 Root (linguistics) Bound and free morphemes
IrbisM Morphophonology, Puerto Rico Cranberry morpheme
Cd.Bassett Medical cannabis research Arizona Cardinals
Aileenecarrizoza Lemma
Elizimmerman Dialect Sentence clause structure
Cocacolaperson Boeing Isolating language, Muja (alligator)
ChaseHult Filter (higher-order function) Implusivity
Alrashed33 Most common words in English Stocks
Shahnawaz01 Inflection Sentence function
Greenechris11 Arizona Cardinals Affix
Sanjith.rajesh Synthetic language Engineering physics
Luccamagalhaes Garden-path sentence Constructed script
Bclarke1 Sentence function Cranberry morpheme
Dlarez Dog whistle (politics) Morphophonology
Ajlappenbusch Word No problemo
Ajeffries Dog training Filter (higher-order function)
Brianvuu
Izabellahernandez N-gram Synthetic language
Rxstow
Jingtian77123

Timeline

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Week 1

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Course meetings
Monday, 24 August 2020   |   Wednesday, 26 August 2020   |   Friday, 28 August 2020
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2

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Course meetings
Monday, 31 August 2020   |   Wednesday, 2 September 2020   |   Friday, 4 September 2020
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

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Evaluate an article


Week 3

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Course meetings
Wednesday, 9 September 2020   |   Friday, 11 September 2020
Assignment - Choose possible topics

Exercise

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Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 4

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Course meetings
Monday, 14 September 2020   |   Wednesday, 16 September 2020   |   Friday, 18 September 2020
Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

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Add a citation


Week 5

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Course meetings
Monday, 21 September 2020   |   Wednesday, 23 September 2020   |   Friday, 25 September 2020
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9


Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Linguistics

Science Communication

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6

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Course meetings
Monday, 28 September 2020   |   Wednesday, 30 September 2020   |   Friday, 2 October 2020
Assignment - Peer review two articles

Guiding framework

In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 7

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Course meetings
Monday, 5 October 2020   |   Wednesday, 7 October 2020   |   Friday, 9 October 2020
Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 8

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Course meetings
Monday, 12 October 2020   |   Wednesday, 14 October 2020   |   Friday, 16 October 2020
Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 9

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Course meetings
Monday, 19 October 2020   |   Wednesday, 21 October 2020   |   Friday, 23 October 2020
Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

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Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 10

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Course meetings
Monday, 26 October 2020   |   Wednesday, 28 October 2020   |   Friday, 30 October 2020
Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

  • Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
  • Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 11

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Course meetings
Monday, 2 November 2020   |   Wednesday, 4 November 2020   |   Friday, 6 November 2020
Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.