Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Georgia Institute of Technology/Introduction to Neuroscience (Fall 2013)/Course description
Welcome to the GT Introduction to Neuroscience course page for BMED 4752. Over at WikiProject Neuroscience (WikiProjects are places where volunteers can collaborate and discuss topics that relate to the areas of their interest, in this case, Neuroscience) there is discussion about the class. Yes, your class. As odd as that might sound, there are talk pages for everything on Wikipedia. Every article has a talk page. Your user page has a talk page. Wikipedia depends upon conversation, colloaboration, and consensus so of course there will be people discussing stuff in all kinds of places. Why does this matter? Because there are willing volunteers to help you decide on your topic. Volunteers who care about the quality of Wikipedia. See the discussion already generated so far. There is a section on that page titled "Need a topic? Unsure about one? Think you're sure, but you want to double check? Ask below".
Adjacent to your name in the "Names and Article Titles" heading, list your user name, article title, and a link to the your sandbox that you are working on in the following format. (Please don't leave two copies of your full name behind, and do not unnecessarily capitalize article titles, despite the examples of your peers. Autonomous sensory meridian response is a correct example.)
#last name, first name · {{User|username}} · {{la|article title}} · [[User:username/sandbox]]
Having the whole list of neuroscience articles that all of you are covering on this course page will let other universities that you have intentions to write out your proposed article. This prevents other students in other universities from beating you to your article write up. Feel free to collaborate with each other and to seek input from Wikipedia editors. Wikipedia depends upon collaboration. Good luck!
A good assignment has the following characteristics:
- Incorporates factual and encyclopedic neurobiological information. Up-to-date content, at least a couple refs in the last 3 years. The more your topic is studied, the more recent sources should be.
- 15,000–25,000 Bytes total. (See me ahead of time if you think you need to go over 25KB ).
- Readable by laypeople and jargon is defined (WP:NOTJOURNAL) and/or hyperlinked: see WP:OVERLINK vs. WP:UNDERLINK .
- At least 10 peer reviewed journal article refs. (this includes review papers and cite recent reviews in place of older research if possible and follow WP:MEDRS for biomedical information).
- Linked to/from other Wikipedia articles where possible (so it's not an unavoidable WP:ORPHAN) and used red links (WP:RED) for needed pages.
- Respond/act upon the talk page comments on your own article.
- Well formatted, follows Wikipedia style (tagged with appropriate WikiProject templates and course banner template on this page to the article's talk page, good organization, including a table of contents with headings per WP:HEADING, follows WP:REFSPACE).
- Well written (neutral WP:NPOV, no original research WP:OR, verifiable WP:V, good grammar, no typos, readable).
- Used Real Name for username in History page and listed at the course page.
- Is Outstanding in some way, such as original media, very well referenced, creative, became a Featured Article, etc.