PREPARATION FOR 4/18 (PEER WORKSHOP 2)

Dear Everyone:

You know you have done a great job of drafting intensely -- and are doing a good job of editing intensely -- when the draft metamorphoses into something messy before the next phase. Welcome to the messiness! As you all start taking ownership of each other's sections, we'll move forward in editing teams, so as to focus on the integrity and coherence of the content, and so as to work towards smoothness of language and tone. (And in reality, those things work together, rather than as separate categories.)

Based on today's workshop, please make any major organizational changes (e.g., moving material into or out of your section, of copying/pasting between sections) as soon as possible, to ensure that content is at least located where it needs to be in the article. Then, by the beginning of class time on Thursday, please have completed your editing assignment directly in the Class Space on Google Drive. Here is the list of editing groups for which you volunteered:

• Cohesion: Jenn Gaudreau, Stacey Cox, Morgan Hough
• Explainers: Lindsey Sullivan, Amanda Diehl, Erik Reed
• Perspective Checkers: Donovan Todd, Catalina Quintana, Katherine Saviola
• Tone and Stance: Tyler Avery, Shay Morant, Rachel Young
• Readability and Word Choice: Rachel Cushanick, Brittany Morrill, Austin Tillery, Brittany Stephens
• Quotations (especially formatting and what to do with long quotes): Jordan Spina, Cassie Hamilton
• Fact Checkers: Anneleise Sanchez, Joey Arellano, Nick Pelton
• Paragraph Focus: Chris Menendez, Danae VanPortfliet

This time, you are taking control of the whole article for your particular task. Please use the "Wikipedia Peer Review 1" handout to guide you (if you don't have a hard copy, you can find it in BB "Handouts" at the very bottom of the list), since I offered up some examples from the actual article and even pointed you towards relevant resources, online and off. So in other words, those resources are our editing guide for this next phase.

You'll be working individually, which means it is possible that even those of you working on quotations might come up with different solutions to what you see as similar problems; this is perfectly fine. Edit and resolve what you can -- after all, you are giving each other permission to do so -- but if you are hesitant or unsure about making a major change, feel free to call it out in {{boldfaced double brackets}}.

At the beginning of class on Thursday, I will move our first revised version into a Wikipedia project space where it will live for a week as we do our second round of editing -- which will involve a whole new set of editing teams.

Much fun ahead!
-Prof. Graban