PREPARATION POST (FOR 4/25) -- WIKIPEDIA FINAL ROUND

Dear Wikipedians (!) :

As promised, here is our final preparation post of the semester, to be done in advance of class time on Thursday (4/25), since on that day we will "submit" our article together (most likely near the beginning of the hour).

The link for our article draft on "multimodality" is in BlackBoard (in the left-hand navigation menu). Follow the link and "log in" to Wikipedia for your editing task. I have also left our Class Space visible on Google Drive so that anyone who is stylizing the article in Wikipedia can look there to see what was underlined or indented, what was a section header vs. a subheader, etc.

And of course, if you run into trouble, I'm available in office hours and via e-mail, so don't hesitate to ask! Here are the editing tasks you selected at the end of class today:

1. Proofreading for Punctuation and Sentence Structure, especially
WWC on "passive voice" (pp. 58-65)
WWC on "subject-verb agreement" (pp. 70-78) and "parallelism" (pp. 79-82)
Style on "emphasis" (pp. 46-48, 49-51) and "elegance" (pp. 91-93)
WWC on "possessive case" (pp. 92-94) and "apostrophe" (p. 119)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Capital_letters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Punctuation

• Rachel Cushanick
• Morgan Hough
• Shay Morant
• Lindsey Sullivan
• Brittany Stephens

2. Numbering and Unifying all Endnotes/References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Layout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#General_references

• Amanda Diehl
• Erik Reed
• Dr. Graban (I doubt that you'll need my help, but ...)

3. Creating Section Headers and a TOC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Article_titles.2C_headings.2C_and_sections
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TOC#Table_of_contents_.28TOC.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Structure_of_the_article

• Chris Menendez
• Anneleise Sanchez
• Jordan Spina

4. Editing for Tone and Stance
Style on "ethics of style" (pp. 126-129)
WWC on "passive voice" (pp. 58-65)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Style#Gender-neutral_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Explanation_of_the_neutral_point_of_view

• Tyler Avery
• Stacey Cox
• Nick Pelton

5. Proofreading for Spelling
Be sure to use lists of commonly misspelled words (in WWC and elsewhere) and check 2-3 sources on the spelling of a technical term!

• Joey Arellano
• Cassie Hamilton
• Katherine Saviola
• Danae VanPortfliet

6. Word Choice and Word Usage
WWC on "Sense and Sensitivity" (pp. 174-184)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Editorializing

• Jenn Gaudreau
• Brittany Morrill
• Austin Tillery

7. Stylizers (i.e., boldfacing, italicizing, inserting hyperlinks, naming categories you want the article to be associated with, and cleaning up the page)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Layout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Bulleted_and_numbered_lists

• Catalina Quintana
• Donovan Todd
• Rachel Young
• Dr. Graban (I doubt that you'll need my help, but ...)

And two final reminders:

Your Wikipedia Analytic Reflection is due (posted to your blog) by beginning of class time on Thursday (4/25). See the Assignment Sheet for particulars, but it probably won't seem completely new to you.

In addition to that (more formal) reflection, I invite everyone to submit a briefer for-my-eyes-only reflection on how the project went for you. (Obviously, this will not be linked to your blog.)

Have a wonderful 48 hours,

-Prof. Graban