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- Course name
- Composition I - Writing Wikipedia
- Institution
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Instructor
- Matthew Vetter
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Writing and rhetoric
- Course dates
- 2022-01-17 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-05-06 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 28
Welcome to English 101: Composition I - Writing Wikipedia. This course takes an innovative approach for learning writing, rhetoric, and research in that the large majority of the work you do will revolve around reading, evaluating, and editing 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 conceptual understanding about writing in three knowledge "domains": procedural knowledge, social knowledge, and rhetorical knowledge. To accomplish this learning, you will engage in course projects for analyzing Wikipedia articles, performing research, making edits to Wikipedia, and writing reflective and argumentative essays about the work that you're doing. By contributing to Wikipedia and improving specific articles, you'll also be working to improve this resource through meaningful and public writing.