Assignment: Wikipedia
Throughout the semester, we have examined the sources of our biases and learned how to identify biases in others’ writing.
This assignment asks writers to put those skills together to create a useful Wikipedia article.
How Wikipedia is different from a college essay (from Wiki Education Foundation)
A Wikipedia page is not an argumentative essay. The final draft of your page should be Fact-based, not persuasive writing. Rather than making an argument, you will be writing a description of the information about a topic, cited to reliable sources.
Written with a formal tone and easy-to-understand language. Wikipedia isn’t the place for you to show off your extensive vocabulary. The audience of Wikipedia is global, and people who have never heard of the topic before will be reading what you are writing. Clearly convey the basics of the topic in your writing.
Mostly paraphrased from sources, with no large block quotes. Wikipedia’s policies state that you should try to paraphrase whenever possible.
Brief quotes from sources is fine, try to provide the context in your own words and only quote the truly key phrase or two from the original.
