Project Instructions Page

Project Instructions Page

For each group decide on the topic for which your group will take responsibility. Have a look at the available reference material and check with your instructor to get the topic approved. Then from the project home page level add your topic title to the wiki page for your class in the following format:

Group Project, The title of the project, Name1, Name2,...

Make sure that the format is as above so that auto indexing software will be able to recognize your groups data.This top level page will be the place your group dumps quotes, citations, thoughts, random writing on your topic and material taken from other sources. You should include a correct APA style citation for each bit of data dumped on the page. This is not material you will share so feel free to include anything you want to this page. Once you have accumulated a sufficient amount of data you can start organizing the information into logical groups in any order that makes sense. As the data are organized you can start writing draft summaries or paragraphs that can be incorporated into your final report draft.

After you have a top level group project page create a child page entitled "Group #xx Draft Final Report"

This page is where you will assemble your groups draft report. You should immediately add the reference to any article or information you put in the document dump above to this draft report page. Start by creating a "References" label at the end of the document and simply add to this page the bibliographic reference for any new data that goes in the document dump. You will be using all of the information in the dump so adding the reference will save you time building a references section later.

Open the "Group special tasks" page listed on the left side of the Wiki, decide upon what tasks your group wants to do related to the Project (how your group is going to contribute toward making the Bibliography page better). Type in Group #xx will do .....

Go on to perform these tasks that your group has agreed upon. Once you edit the Bibliography page go to the bottom of the page while editing, and on the comments section briefly describe what you have done, then scroll back to the top of the page and Save the changes.

Be careful while you are editing the page as many people can log on at the same time but only one person at a time is allowed to Save. If someone has saved his/her changes before you, and you click Save again, you may overwrite their changes.

If you by accident mess up the bibliography page, on the right side of the page you can go to Tools --> Page History, and there you can see the latest edits to the page. On the left side of this page you have the option to check the box which represents the changes that you made, and you have the option of reversing those changes.