This month, we are working to improve coverage of content at the intersection of composition pedagogy (or the teaching of writing) and digital technologies. We are particularly interested in representation of how writing teachers at all levels engage technology for effective teaching methods. As is always the case with WikiProject Writing, we will be especially attentive to marginalized identities and scholarship in our editing efforts. We aim to work together to address knowledge inequities on Wikipedia as we create and contribute to these articles.
Our main goals are to . . .
1. Set writing goals: Create achievable goals for contributions to a target article or articles.
2. Coordinate collaboration: Form writing groups of WikiProject Writing participants interested in improving the same article or articles.
3. Combat knowledge inequities: Address content gaps by creating new content with attention to the research and scholarship of marginalized writing studies teacher-scholars.
Take action by...
1. Choosing an article: Head to our article worklist to find an article you'd like to work on.
2. Setting a goal: Edit our 'Setting goals' section with your suggested plan for the month.
3. Collaborate on an article: Use our resources section to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, and request feedback.
A few of the scholars listed under the article worklist section have pre-existing Wikipedia articles on Spanish, Portuguese, and French, and Basque Wikipedia. If you are interested in translating these articles to live on English Wikipedia, we have listed a few instructions on how to do so using the Content Translation tool*. This tool allows users to easily translate articles by creating a user-friendly side-by-side display and allows you to easily publish or save your article as a draft when you finish. Here's how to access the tool:
Log into Wikipedia
Click on ‘Beta’ at the top right
Scroll down and click on ‘Content Translation’
Click on ‘Save changes’ on the bottom of the page to save the tool
To start translating an article click on ‘Contributions’ and select ‘Translations’ from the drop down menu
For more information on the Content Translation tool, check out the user manual.
*This tool allows new users to publish translations as a draft on English Wikipedia. If you are an extended confirmed users (accounts at least 30 days old with 500 or more edits), you can automatically publish translations to the English Wikipedia mainspace. We encourage both newcomers and experienced Wikipedians to try it out!
Alongside each biography of an academic or topic article we've suggested either one field-specific article and one general interest, vital article or both to incorporate relevant scholarship into. Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement.
Haas, Angela M. “Toward a Digital Cultural Rhetoric.” The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, edited by Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, 1st ed., Routledge, 2018, pp. 412–22.
Dobson, T.M. & Willinsky, J. (2009). Digital Literacy. In The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. pp.286-312
Martin, A. (2008). Digital Literacy and the ‘‘Digital Society’’. In Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices, pp.151-176.
Price-Dennis, D., Holmes, K.A., Smith, E. (2015). Exploring Digital Literacy Practices in an Inclusive Classroom. The Reading Teacher. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.1398.
Kurniawati, N., Maolida, E., and Anjaniputra, A.G. (2018). The Praxis of Digital Literacy in the EFL Classroom: Digital-Immigrant vs Digital-Native Teacher. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 8(1). https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v8i1.11459.
Hawisher, G., & Selfe C. (1991). The Rhetoric of Technology and the Electronic Writing Class. College Composition and Communication 42(1), pp. 55-65. https://doi.org/10.2307/357539.
Selfe C. (2007). Multi-Modal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Hampton Press.
Selfe C. (1999). Technology and literacy in the 21st century: The importance of paying attention. Southern Illinois University Press.
Selfe C. (2009). The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing. College Composition and Communication 60(4), pp. 616-663. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40593423.
Robin, B. (2006). The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. In C. Crawford, R. Carlsen, K. McFerrin, J. Price, R. Weber & D. Willis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2006--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 709-716). Orlando, Florida, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved January 23, 2022 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/22129/.
Lambert, J.& Hessler, B. (2018). Digital storytelling: Capturing lives, creating community.
Robin, B. (2009). Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Technology Tool for the 21st Century Classroom, Theory Into Practice 47 (3), pp.220-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405840802153916.
McLellan, H. (2007). Digital storytelling in higher education. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 19, pp. 65–79. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03033420.
Add your username, goals for article creation, and any specific articles you'll be working on below, alongside your name and a goal or goals you aim to achieve by the end of the month. Additionally, if you plan to collaborate on an article with another participant or participants you may opt to list collaborators and/or invite others to join you.
Copy and paste this format and only change what is within the (parentheses). Add this with a new bullet point below the other participants' sign ups:
The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly events & office hours. If you need some help getting started, have specific questions, or would like to find space to work on your article alongside your collaborators, these are great spaces to do so:
Curious about how different people navigate editing Wikipedia? Come join us on Twitch where Alexandra Krasova (CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellow) and Dr. Matthew Vetter (CCCCWI Committee member) will draft articles for Cynthia Selfe and Cheryl Ball. This is a great space to come for company as you edit, learn best practices for editing various types of articles, or just to observe. Participants are invited to ask questions and make comments via the chat function throughout the stream.
This introductory workshop covers editing basics with particular attention to some of the specific concerns experts face on Wikipedia and discussion of how academics can use their expertise to advance knowledge equity online. Topics include navigating privacy issues, concerns around conflict of interest, and strategies for getting started with articles that need a lot of work.
This workshop introduces WikiProject Writing as a collaborative space for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia articles related to our areas of expertise. Topics include defining the scope of WikiProject Writing by tagging articles, directing the priorities of WikiProject Writing by assessing articles, and adding to and working from our list of articles in need of work and creation.
If you would like to discuss something Wikipedia-related one-on-one or get help with a Wikipedia article you’re working on, please feel free to sign up for my office hours on Mondays and Tuesdays or email me to suggest another time ([email protected]).
