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Welcome to HIST 394, the second of a two-semester introductory survey of the history of science in the Western world from the ancient Greeks to the twentieth century. The first semester covers science from ancient Greece to the death of Isaac Newton in 1727, while the second semester covers "modern science," the period from Newton to the present day.
For the writing enhanced portion of this course, your assignment is to create a new Wikipedia page, or to substantially modify a page or a section of a page. Details are given on the Timline portion of this website, and will be given in class.
Handout: Editing Wikipedia
Follow the links below to review Wikipedia's philosophy and editing basics.
Handouts: Using Talk Pages, Evaluating Wikipedia
Wikipedia article rating system
Some HOS articles rated
Articles in need of expansion.
Pages needing attention in history of science (keep to post-1700). Some are better than others.
Some possible pages (also skim the textbooks for other ideas):
Albrecht von Haller (talk | History)
Alexander von Humboldt (talk | History)
Auguste Laurent (talk | History)
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (talk | History)
Caloric theory (talk | History)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (talk | History)
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (talk | History)
Chemical revolution (talk | History)
Claude Louis Berthollet (talk | History)
Corpuscular theory of light (talk | History)
Eduard Suess (talk | History)
Georg Ernst Stahl (talk | History)
Goethean science (talk | History)
Hans Christian Ørsted (talk | History)
Harry Hammond Hess (talk | History)
James Dwight Dana (talk | History)
Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (talk | History)
Johann Wilhelm Ritter (talk | History)
John Dalton (talk | History)
John Tuzo Wilson (talk | History)
Joseph Black (talk | History)
Kosmos (Humboldt) (talk | History)
Light (talk | History)
Linus Pauling (talk | History)
Louis Agassiz (talk | History)
Louis Pasteur (talk | History)
Marie François Xavier Bichat (talk | History)
Martin Heinrich Klaproth (talk | History)
Paul Forman (talk | History)
Phlogiston theory (talk | History)
Pierre-Simon Laplace (talk | History)
Richard Owen (talk | History)
Romanticism in science (talk | History)
Superseded scientific theories (talk | History)
Thomas Young (scientist) (talk | History)
Vitalism (talk | History)
Werner Heisenberg (talk | History)
Wilhelm Ostwald (talk | History)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (talk | History)
All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
Handouts: Choosing an article
Be prepared to explain close paraphrasing, plagiarism, and copyright violations on Wikipedia.
Handouts: Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
Supplementary training: [[../../../training/students/sources|Sources and Citations
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Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the course. If you have not completed this yet, do it in class today.
In class today, you should create a short description of your project in your sandbox. Copy in the original article, or portion of your article to the sandbox. Put in at least one citation.
Supplementary training: [[../../../training/students/sandboxes|Sandboxes and Mainspace
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You should now begin to compile a bibliography of relevant, reliable sources and post them to your sandbox and the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources. Make sure to check in on the talk page (or watchlist) to see if anyone has advice on your bibliography
You should have a working bibliography by this week.
All students have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia.
Resources: Illustrating Wikipedia and Evaluating Wikipedia
Supplementary training: [[../../../training/students/peer-review|Peer Review]]
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Handout: Polishing your article
Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.