Week Twelve (12/7-12/14)

A. Proofreading and editing article sections (overall, 100 points):
          Secondary Sources for Wild Seed HERE.

B. Checking feedback on Research Paper on Blackboard


Assignment Due Sunday, December 13 at 9:00 AM

 Class reflection. Instructions HERE

Week Eleven (11/30-12/7)

A. Revising article sections (overall, 100 points; 1 hour):
          Secondary Sources for Wild Seed HERE.

B. Time to work on the next draft of the Research Paper (2 hours)


Assignment Due Saturday, December 5

Last Draft of the Research Paper. Instructions HERE.

Week Ten (11/23-11/30)

A. Revising article sections (overall, 100 points; 2 hours):
          Secondary Sources for Wild Seed HERE.

B. (Optional) Time to work on the first draft of the Research Paper (1 hour)
C. Last Weekly Research Journal Entry! - Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Journal Entry ___" Take a few minutes to write Research Journal Entry #10 (10 points) on what you did and learned today.

Assignment Due November 24 

First Draft of the Research Paper. Instructions HERE.

Week Nine (11/16-11/23)

A. Revising article sections (overall, 100 points--one and a half hours):
          Secondary Sources for Wild Seed HERE.

B. Reviewing my feedback on your Research Essay Proposal (one and a half hours)
  • If your research proposal was incomplete (did not fulfill all requirements spelled out HERE), you may turn in a revised, complete proposal for 85 points. 
  • If you did not turn in a proposal, you may turn in a complete late proposal for 75 points.
    • See an example of a proper proposal HERE and  HERE
  • If your proposal was complete: see my comments on your draft. Please move on to a first draft of the essay.
    • Instructions for the Research Paper HERE

 C.  Fill out this Working Thesis Statement form HERE. My feedback HERE.

 D. Weekly Research Journal Entry - Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Journal Entry ___" Take a few minutes to write Research Journal Entry #9 (10 points) on what you did and learned today.

Assignment Due November 23

First Draft of the Research Paper. Instructions HERE.
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Week Eight (11/9-11/16)

A. Choose a team to work on sections for the Wikipedia article on Wild Seed:
Editing Team 1. Article sections: Characters; Power struggles; Further reading
Editing Team 2. Article sections: Plot; Contribution to feminist thought
Editing Team 3. Article sections: Reception; Eugenics/Superhuman Mutants; Commentary on New World Slavery
Editing Team 4. Article sections: Backgrounds; Afrocentrism/Afrofuturism; Revision of origin stories

B. Editing the article sections (overall, 100 points):
          Secondary Sources for Wild Seed HERE.

 C. Instructions for the Research Paper HERE

 D. Reviewing my feedback on your Research Essay Proposal
  • If your research proposal was incomplete (did not fulfill all requirements spelled out HERE), you may turn in a revised, complete proposal for 85 points. 
  • If you did not turn in a proposal, you may turn in a complete late proposal for 75 points.
    • See an example of a proper proposal HERE and  HERE
  • If your proposal was complete: see my comments on your draft. Please move on to a first draft of the essay.
E. Weekly Research Journal Entry - Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Journal Entry ___" Take a few minutes to write Research Journal Entry #8 (10 points) on what you did and learned today.
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Week Seven (11/2-11/9)

In Class

A.  Presentation on readings for Research Assignment 5
B.  Review of topics and writing Research Paper Proposal. Instructions HERE. 
C. Vote on the importance of themes using THIS FORM.
D. Weekly Research Journal Entry - Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Journal Entry ___" Take a few minutes to write Research Journal Entry #7 (10 points) on what you did and learned today. 

 Assignment due 11/7 by 9:00AM

Research proposal due on Blackboard (100 points). Instructions HERE.

 Assignments due 11/9 
  • Read pages 15-23 of the class packet and review the LaGuardia's Library's Guide to Plagiarism. Complete the Quizzes Understanding Plagiarism (17 points) and Acknowledging Sources (20 points) on Blackboard
  • Complete this Quoting Quiz (8 points) HERE.
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Week Six (10/26-11/2)

In Class

A.  Review/ lecture / discussion of readings for Research Assignment #4
B. Finishing Research Assignment #3 (30 points). Instructions HERE.
C. Choosing a reading for Research Assignment # 5
D. Weekly Research Journal Entry - Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Journal Entry ___" Take a few minutes to write Research Journal Entry #6 (10 points) on what you did and learned today. 
Assignments due 11/2

 Complete Research Assignment #5. Instructions HERE.
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Week Five (10/19-10/26)


Wikipedia Editor Hat with Dog
Congratulations in completing the Wikipedia training!
Now you are a trained editor (plus you received 25 points!)
In Class

 First of all, grab a cookie! :-)

 A. Research Assignment #3 (30 points). Instructions HERE.
Each reading will be followed by class discussion to ensure we understand the main points of each reading.

B. Weekly Research Journal Entry - Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Journal Entries." Take a few minutes to write Research Journal Entry #5 (10 points) on what you did and learned today. 
Assignments due 10/19
  1. Complete Research Assignment #4. Instructions HERE.
  2. If you have not completed Research Assignment #2 (or have done it incorrectly), complete it before Wednesday at 9:00AM or zero points for you. 
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Week Four (10/14-10/19)



In Class

 A. Evaluation of current Wikipedia article for Wild Seed.
1. Browse Wikipedia's WikiProject Novels, then go to its style guide and read the section "Article body" carefully for the components on an article on a novel.
2. See how these guidelines were fulfilled in the article for Butler's Kindred.
3. Now browse the Wikipedia article on Octavia Butler's Wild Seed. In your groups, discuss whether this article already fulfills the requirements of WikiProject Novels.
4. As a group, go to Wild Seed's Talk page. Click on New Section. Based on what you have learned from the WikiProject Novels style guide, leave ONE suggestion for improving the article.--Don't forget to sign your post! 

 B. Listing article components covered by this class so far 
As a group, visit our course's Talk page, look at the group paraphrases and, Using Wikiproject Novels style guide as your guideline, quickly list what components of the novel we have already begun covering. Continue this list by checking the paraphrases we have done as quizzes: HERE and HERE.

 C. Summarizing a secondary source
In his quick review of Octavia Butler's work, "Books to Look For," science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card reveals that
[w]ithin three pages [of Wild Seed] I knew that not only was I a damned fool for not reading Butler's work all along, but also I was going to use passages from Wild Seed in my forthcoming book on writing science fiction and fantasy -- as a perfect example of how to handle exposition of a complex milieu without slowing down the tale.
Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Orson Scott Card on Butler's craft in Wild Seed."  In your own words ONLY, summarize what Card has to say about Wild Seed in How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy. You may use bullet points. 

D. Weekly Research Journal Entry - Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Journal Entries." Take a few minutes to write Research Journal Entry #4 (10 points) on what you did and learned today.


Assignments due 10/19
  1. Read Wild Seed, chapters 11 to "Epilogue." (Up to page 189 on the pdf on Blackboard; the book is also on reserve in the Library, together with the other volumes in the trilogy).
  2. Log on to Wikipedia. Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Wild Seed, Chapters 11-Epilogue" (25 points).  In your own words ONLY, write a 150 to 200-word summary of what happens in these chapters. Do NOT quote. Do NOT closely paraphrase summaries from outside sources, as this is against Wikipedia policy, as explained in the handout "Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia." You may want to preview the page before clicking "Save page."
  3. Complete Research Assignment #2 (30 points). Instructions HERE. 
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Week Three (10/5-10/14)

In Class
1. Review  of Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting (class packet, pages 4-6)
2. Critique group paraphrasing using THIS EVALUATION. Online handout HERE.
3. Revise paraphrasing of interviews
4. Paragraphing: essay writing vs. encyclopedic writing 
  • Thesis statements (class packet, page 8)
  • Body paragraphs (class packet, pages 10-11) 
5. Using E.R. Helford's analysis of the themes in Wild Seed to write encyclopedic paragraphs.  Online handout HERE.
**OJO: next class meets on Wednesday 10/14**

 Assignments due 10/14
  1. Read Wild Seed, chapters 7-10. (Up to page 133 on the pdf on Blackboard; the book is also on reserve in the Library, together with the other volumes in the trilogy).
  2. Log on to Wikipedia. Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Wild Seed, Chapters 7-10" (25 points).  In your own words ONLY, write a 150 to 200-word summary of what happens in these chapters. Do NOT quote. Do NOT closely paraphrase summaries from outside sources, as this is against Wikipedia policy, as explained in the handout "Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia." You may want to preview the page before clicking "Save page."
  3. MAKE SURE YOU ARE LOGGED IN to Wikipedia. Complete the Wikipedia training by clicking here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students (this training will take about 1 hour. Once you have completed it, your status of the Wikipedia Course Dashboard will change to "Training Complete."
  4. Complete this Paraphrasing and Quoting Test (5 points). Reading HERE and also in Blackboard.
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Week Two (9/28-10/5)

In Class
1. Quick review of what we learned last class
2. Review of Annotating, Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting (pages 14-17 of the class packet; How to: pages 3-6)
3. a) If you have a summary of Butler's biography, you get to critique someone else's. If not, you should be working on writing the summary. 
    b) In teams, summarize
4. Paraphrasing and quoting from interviews with Octavia Butler. Online handout HERE.
5. Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Journal Entries." Take a few minutes to write Research Journal Entry #2 (10 points) on what you did and learned today.

 Assignments due 10/5 
  1. Read Wild Seed, chapters 5-6. (Up to page 91 on the pdf on Blackboard; the book is also on reserve in the Library, together with the other volumes in the trilogy).
  2. Log on to Wikipedia. Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Wild Seed, Chapters 5-6" (25 points).  In your own words ONLY, write a 150 to 200-word summary of what happens in these chapters. Do NOT quote. Do NOT closely paraphrase summaries from outside sources, as this is against Wikipedia policy, as explained in the handout "Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia." You may want to preview the page before clicking "Save page."
  3. Read the handout "Using Wikipedia talk pages." Now, practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia by introducing yourself to THREE people on their Talk pages: a) our own Ann Matsuuchi (Username: Mozucat), b) our Wiki Education volunteer Adam, and c) one classmate of your choice. The class list is HERE. A hello/ thank you in advance/ thank you for the help with the summary/ a question or comment about the class or some other nice words will suffice--Don't forget to sign your posts!
  4. Complete this Paraphrasing and Quoting Test (10 points).
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Week One (9/21-9/28)

Welcome to ENG103. 0907! In this research class, you will
  • learn the difference between thesis-based and encyclopedic writing
  • become an expert in the proper methods and procedures of contributing to Wikipedia
  • engage in the investigative and evaluative process required to write an outstanding encyclopedic article and see your work published as part of LaGuardia’s ongoing WikiProject on the work of African-American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler

 In Class
1. Overview of the course and how Wikipedia will be used. Example of the page we will attempt to emulate: Octavia Butler's Kindred. (WP Basics slides 1-3).
2. Online privacy; choosing a username; the advantages of using a pseudonym. (Do not know the meaning of the word? See a definition HERE.
Note: To be effective, the pseudonym should be different from your name, nicknames, or your regular usernames. For more information on usernames, see "Guidance for new users" in Wikipedia's Username policy.
3. Use the handout "Welcome to Wikipedia" to complete the "Welcome to Wikipedia" quiz on Blackboard.
4. Create a Wikipedia account (class packet p. 1). If you are having trouble creating the account, talk to me or to Ann.
5. Submit your username information to THIS FORM.
6. Enroll in our Wikipedia course page by clicking HERE.
7. Create your Userpage ("Welcome to Wikipedia," p. 14 or class packet, p.1) by writing a short introduction of yourself to other Wikipedians. This introduction can be as revealing as you want to make it. For example, here is the "About me" section of my Userpage. Remember you can always make your Userpage more elaborate as you learn more about editing Wikipedia. Preview the page before clicking "Save page."
8. Create your Sandbox (WP Basics slides 4-10): Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Citation Practice." Under it, create a Level 2 Heading titled "References." Under it, insert a reflist tag. Save the page.
Open the section "Citation Practice"  and follow the teacher's instructions to create three footnotes for secondary sources on Octavia Butler’s work:
a. The example from the whiteboard:
Text: Octavia Butler was shy as a child. 
Citation: <ref>Butler, Octavia E. "Positive Obsession." Bloodchild and Other Stories. New York : Seven Stories, 2005. 123-136.</ref>
b. Butler's entry at the Encyclopedia of SF: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/butler_octavia
c. Butler's essay entitled "Birth of a Writer" (searchable through EbscoHost). Let's create a reference in MLA style.
9. Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Research Journal Entries." Take a few minutes to write Research Journal Entry #1 (10 points) on what you did and learned today.

 Assignments due 9/28 (10/5 if you missed the first class meeting)
  1. Buy and read Wild Seed, chapters 1-4. (Up to page 45 on the pdf on Blackboard; the book is also on reserve in the Library, together with the other volumes in the trilogy).
  2. Review the handout "Wikimarkup cheatsheet" (also on class packet, p. 2).
  3. Log on to Wikipedia. Go to your Sandbox, click on Edit, and create a Level 2 Heading titled "Wild Seed, Chapters 1-4" (25 points).  In your own words ONLY, write a 150 to 200-word summary of what happens in these chapters. Do NOT quote. Do NOT closely paraphrase summaries from outside sources, as this is against Wikipedia policy, as explained in the handout "Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia." You may want to preview the page before clicking "Save page."
  4. Complete Research Assignment #1 (30 points). Instructions HERE. 


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