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Wikibooks

Submitted by Jim Brown on September 21, 2006 - 11:05am

While browsing wikipedia, I ran into the section on Wikibooks. These are books/textbooks on various topics. And, of course, they are edited on the wiki format. Check out the Composition Wikibook or the one on literary criticism. I wonder if these would be useful in the classroom. I also wonder if a good classroom exercise might be for students to write a section/chapter of one of these books.

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very interesting

Submitted by fernheimer on October 4, 2006 - 3:41pm.

These sound like an interesting possibility. I might try them out next semester, depending on how this semester's individual assignment goes. Thanks for pointing them out Jim.

Also, this kind of assignment seems like it would be ideal in a 314 or an introductory literature class elsewhere. What might be a nice thing to do is to have students complie their advice to other (future) students who will enroll in the class in later semesters. Trish has done this informally in terms of the evaluations she has done, but I wonder if it might work as a "gift" assignment that one class gives to the next section who takes it?

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