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Students will perform a set of laboratory experiments covering areas of biochemistry such as protein analysis, enzyme purification, enzymatic assays, recombinant DNA and the polymerase chain reaction.
The Wikipedia assignment will provide students with an opportunity to conduct secondary research in library databases and to contribute findings and sources to Wikipedia articles in the discipline.
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete. It includes links to the training modules required for this course. All training, exercises, and contributions are due May 10, 2022. Training, exercises, your contribution, and the sources you use will all be evaluated as part of your grade for the assignment.
Use the timeline as a guide to help with pacing your work on the assignment.
By now you have established your acccount in Wikipedia and can get to the WikiEdu course dashboard for CHEM 378, spring 2022.
As you work on this assignment, keep note of the following for a final reflection.
The final reflection is also due 05/10/22.
Once you have a Wikipedia account and have enrolled in the course here, work on the Getting familiar with Wikipedia training modules and exercise linked in the block below.
"A stub is an article deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject." Go to the Wikipedia page on stubs for more information.
For this assignment you will find and edit a stub in the Biochemistry category. Begin to look at the Biochemistry stubs to consider which one (or more) you would like to contribute to. By next week you should settle on one or more and you can assign it to yourself in the WikiEdu Dashboard.
Once you have selected your topic/stub, assign it to yourself. Go through the exercises above, and review any others that may help you at this point. Finalizing your topic and finding sources.
Locate sources in Hunter College Libraries' databases. Hint: start by entering your topic into OneSearch on the HCL website. You can also go directly to a database if you choose. You can browse the recommended databases on the subject database page for biochemistry.
Reach out to me (ifinkelhunter.cuny.edu) if you have questions.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
You are working on a stub topic in your Sandbox.
Add links to your articleNow is the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact me at any time if you need further help!
Now that you've improved your draft it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
By May 10th, everyone should have finished all of the work on the Wikipedia assignment.