Welcome to the College Writing II Wiki

Students in Jennifer Beyer's College Writing II courses will utilize this space to collaborate and to develop content. Our primary focus is to develop study guides for The Kite Runner and for Tess of the d'Urbervilles. These study guides will serve current and future students who study these novels. This space may also be used to cordinate ideas and material for the group presentations and annotated research bibliography late in the semester.

see also: The Kite Runner Wiki or click on the sidebar (to the right-hand side of the screen) to navigate the main pages.

Who May Contribute

Anyone is welcome to edit or add comments to the study guides as they take shape. Anyone may, of course, access any of the material as it is developed here over the semester. The majority of the content should be developed by the students. Feel free to contact me for the access code if you are interested in participating in the wiki.

CW II Students:  

Think of this wiki as a shared online whiteboard. Your groups can share information using this wiki, making your research accessible to everyone. Play around with this wiki: Notice how you can add comments to a page, see what people have changed, and edit all the text. Here is how to work in the wiki:

Step 1: Log In

Click the EDIT PAGE button at either the top or the bottom of any page you want to edit. When prompted, enter in the access code I gave you in class. If you do not remember it, email me from your student netmail account.

Step 2: Create the content

• Add your own ideas
• React to others' ideas
• You may edit other people's information, but do so in an academic manner: edit for grammar, spelling, to correct or clarify information. Be conscientious.
• Save your changes!

Step 3: Revise, Link, and Edit

• Using the comment features, start discussing how the material can be made more presentable (fix format, merge material to avoid repetition and to maximize the knowledge presented thus far. Consider audience, purpose, and strategy! Are bulletted lists the best option? Paragraphs? Headers?
• Add links by highlighting a word or phrase, click the hyperlink icon, and use the menu to connect to an existing page or create a new page and add new content
• proofread! The documents are all in rough shape, my own included, but we can start to clean them up

Here are the front pages of the two study guides we are working on for ENGL 1102 (you can also jump to specific pages by using the sidebar to the right):

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Study Guide Wiki

The Kite Runner Study Guide Wiki

These are the assignment sheets that prompted the content:

Information on Wikis in general (from CommonCraft.com):

Directions for using the wiki:

• To navigate through the wiki use the SIDEBAR on the right             
• To edit a page use the  EDIT PAGE button
• After adding your information click the SAVE PAGE button
• Each page has a comment button. Use this to add notes/directions/ideas that are not yet ready to be added to the content of the page

Guidelines for use:

• Add your name to all information you post (group members' names)
• When adding new information, you can separate it from existing information by using the "Insert Horizontal Rule" icon
• Cite sources from the novel and any outside sources you utilized
   
   
   

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