Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Indiana University of Pennsylvania/Composition II (spring)
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- Course name
- Composition II
- Institution
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Instructor
- Matthew Vetter
- Wikipedia Expert
- Brianda (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Course dates
- 2025-01-21 00:00:00 UTC – 2025-05-09 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 28
Welcome to Composition II - Writing & Research in Wikipedia. This course takes an innovative approach for learning about writing, rhetoric, and research in that the large majority of our work will revolve around reading, evaluating, and writing in Wikipedia. As part of this work, you will each become familiar with goals, policies, and practices for understanding and contributing to the Wikipedia community. Through our discussions, readings, activities, and projects, you will also gain a conceptual understanding about writing in four knowledge domains:
procedural knowledge, the understanding of writing as a recursive and multifaceted process that occurs over time social knowledge, the understanding of writing as constrained and informed by communities of writers, readers, and other social actors rhetorical knowledge, the understanding of writing as a transaction between writer and audience within a particular situation or context and for a particular purpose or goal genre knowledge, the understanding of writing and writers as influenced by genres, and the understanding of genres as typified responses to common and recurring situations resulting in repeated forms, patterns, and conventions cultural knowledge, the understanding of writing as influenced by and having influence on culture and society, especially in relation to issues of representation, identity, and power
To accomplish this learning, you will engage in course projects for analyzing Wikipedia articles, performing research, making edits to Wikipedia, and writing reflectively and persuasively about the work that you're doing. By the end of the course, you will have also developed an original argument concerning Wikipedia’s “place” in higher education. By contributing to Wikipedia and improving specific articles, you'll also be working to improve this resource through meaningful, public writing.