Response for Wednesday: Wikipedia

After searching on Wikipedia for your entry's discussion and history pages, report back to this blog about what you learned. Summarize the kinds of things the discussion talked about (what are people suggesting to be edited with the entry?), and discuss how/if reading the discussion and history pages helped you revise or focus your Essay #4 draft.

--ejfleitz

peer feedback

By talking with you, Michelle and I are more clear about the direction of this assingment. I have more work to complete, but I think the best route is to edit an existing topic, rather than starting a new one.

Peer Feedback

There was a lot of confusion for me on this essay so I didn't recieve a lot of feedback, but did recieve help and clarification for the project.

Feedback for Essay 4

The feedback that I received for this paper was helpful and especially was useful for me in expanding more on what I could add and finish for the final draft. The peer evaluation of my paper was good for helping me pinpoint what I needed to change and have edited for the final draft.

Peer Feedback

It was good getting the feedback from my peers on essay 4. I need to add how the legal community uses latin in their speech and writing as well as the other things I have already mentioned.

In class peer workshop

Having a class member review my work helped to reveal the weak areas of my paper. I know that I need to expand on certain aspect to make my post clear to people who are not familiar with the topic.

How helpful was this?

Somewhat helpful

Progress on essay 4

Project 4 is a bit confusing to me. I have never posted or edited to wikipedia before. I was cruising around the site and it still seems blurry of how to post to it. The information that I have collected from essay 3 and further research is coming along well though. My rough draft is short and sketchy. It needs a lot of work, but I think after the peer workshop I'll have a better handle on things... hopefully.

Progress Essay #4

Essay #4 is coming along well; I found it difficult to narrow down a subject within my field that I am interested in writing about, but I have a good start and my ideas are starting to come together. I am going to be focusing on the study of the role of non-verbal language within my discourse community. Wikipedia already has an entry for non-verbal communication, which has allowed me a starting point for analysis. I am trying to expand on the definition of non-verbal communication and to include its study in my discourse community.

I feel lost on this assignment. I am not sure I am on track with what you are looking for. It was very hard to find topics on wikipedia that are not already covered, so I expanded on the dance competition entry to add dance conventions and workshops. I found it very difficult to find sources for this information. Most of the knowledge is either common knowledge or not cited anywhere. I know I need to come up with more cited information from accurate sources.

progress

I feel that this assignment is almost impossible. There is nothing that I can bring to Wiki that is new to the table. I did my essay on an insulin pump specialist. Then there is the fact that I don't know how long to make my essay. If i make it longer than one page then its repetitive and boring. So I guess that I'm not really that happy with my progress so far.

Self Evaluation

I feel that I am doing okey for this project. However I am having a hard time with wikipedia convincing them that I am not plagerising. I know technically I am not because I am giving reference to the site when I post my draft. I would like to discuss about this further during the office hours.

Progress on Essay #4

I have been finding information and preparing for the final draft right now. I had some difficulties getting the rough draft started with what to add into he entries. I chose to edit a page rather than create my own page. The references and sources I have considered using are sources that I used for essay #3 which are relevant to what I am writing for the final draft.

progress

I dont feel like im truely entering my discourse community but someone who is studying. Ive learned much and look forward to learning more. This assignment has been fine so far, it is challenging, however, to convert to an academic style other than the "standard essay"

Progress for Essay #4 Draft

I feel that i have a good start to essay #4 i feel as though i could re word my sentences a little bit and add in some more information. i think your feedback always helps, i know there are some things i can change and work on a bit more before i submit it to wikipedia.

Friday's Post

When Bartholomae says to "invent the university" I believe he is stating that a student creates their own experiences throughout their college career. Students may or may not use sources (library, professors, study centers, or other students) to make their experiences the best. How ever they go about inventing the university, everyone's is different. It is a possibility that students in the same major may have close to the same experiences, but nothing is ever exact.
He uses the word invent rather than learn because you learn from mistakes and he doesn't want the experiences of a univeristy to be exactly a learning experience, although it is he wants it to be created and to the best of your ability. Student inventing is learning the knowledge (past, present, and future) of your discourse community.

Essay 4

I think that my paper is off to a good start on essay 4. Since I am making a brand new wikipedia entry, it may be a little too brief. I tried to focus on bringing the summarized points from essay 3 into this paper. I might want to bring in some more sourcing to better elaborate. I enjoy my topic and am learning a lot about it. It will be good to have some feedback to see if I am pointed in the right direction on this project.

Things are going good so far. I think I have a goo start on project #4. I know I still need to brush it up a little before I post it on Wikipedia, but I think I am on the right track. Your feedback always helps, so I will make the corrections that you suggest.