Instructions for adding Individual Project papers
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR POSTING YOUR INDIVIDUAL PROJECT PAPER TO THE TEXTBOOK WIKI
To get credit for the individual project (up to 25 points), you must correctly post your paper to the class textbook wiki.
If any of your material is used in the textbook, you will receive an acknowledgment as a contributor. You understand that your material will in the public domain. (Should you not wish to have your work included, that's fine, just indicate that in your paper -- no penalties for that preference).
I suggest that you print this -- it will be easier to follow the instructions as you go along.
If you follow the detailed instructions below step-by-step, you shouldn't have
difficulties.
AGAIN, SET YOUR WEB BROWSER TO WORK WITH THE TEXTBOOK WIKI
If you have not done so already, set your web browser:
-- to accept cookies
-- to accept pop-up windows
On Internet Explorer, you can set these by click on "Tools", "Options", "Privacy" -- and set "accept cookies" Click ok.
Click on "Tools","Options", "Content" -- and uncheck "Block Pop windows" click ok.
Other web browsers should have similar options.
LOG IN TO THE CLASS WIKI:
Go to:
http://drmills.wiki-site.com/index.php/Textbook
Log in (upper right hand corner).
Scroll down to "Undergraduate Contributors" then down to your semester and class.
Click on your name.
Your personal wiki page with your name at the top will appear.
COPY THE FIRST DRAFT OF YOUR PAPER TO THE CLIPBOARD AND PASTE IT UNDER THE :"FINAL DRAFT" HEADING
FIRST, MAKE ANY FINAL EDITS TO YOUR PAPER:
Make any last minute edits to your paper.
At the top of your paper, be sure to include the topic and your name, for example:
Topic: Selecting a partner with good genes
Contributor: Susan J. Smith -- or -- if you collaborated: Susan J. Smith and Harry Jones (collaborators)
Title your ppaer -- the title should reflect the specific sub-topic area that you investigated.
Your paper should be single spaced. Check that your references are listed in your text, as well as in your reference list, and are in APA style format. For help, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_style
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/citation.htm#APA
Other than the in-text references, and reference list, you paper dosn't need to follow other APA style guidelines. If the reference paper is available on the web, put the web address for the paper right after its reference in the reference list.
Also, include a list of additional web resources related to the topic if you found any.
COPY YOUR PAPER TO THE CLIPBOARD:
Open your paper with your word processing software, and copy it to the clipboard.
ADD YOUR PAPER TO YOUR PERSONAL WIKI PAGE:
Paste your pape under the Final Draft heading.
Again, unfortunately, you will lose italics and bold formatting when you paste your paper.
Edit what you pasted to re-format your text as needed for italic and bold text.
To add graphics to your paper see the sectiion below re adding graphics.
When you are finished, scroll down in the outer window, and click Save Page.
Later, as I grade the papers, I will rate your paper using the
point scale noted above, and I will add this to the bottom of your paper. You can
check back on this page for feedback.
NOTE: Although you are unlikely to run into trouble, the wiki editor
apparently has some bugs. If you find that it has really screwed things
up, click the "undo" icon to reverse what you did. If it is still screwy,
click on the "history" tab (at the top of the page), where you
can restore the wiki page to a previous version.
If you collaborated, you should indicate the name of your collaborator
at the top of your pesonal wiki page (i.e., "collaborated with Harry Jones).
The paper should be posted only on the one of the collaborators' personal
wiki page -- the other person's personal wiki page should simply indicate:
See Jane Smith's (collaborator's) wiki page for our paper.
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HOW TO INSERT GRAPHICS INTO YOUR PAPER
If the graphic is on another website:
Go to the web page that has the graphic. Right
click on the graphic, then left click "Copy Image Location." This
will copy the full web address for that specific graphic to
the clipboard.
Scroll down in your paper to where you want to insert your image, and insert
a blank line above and below where you want to insert the image.
Click on the line where you want the image to go.
Paste the image link from the clipboard.
When you are finished adding graphics, click "Save Page."
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If you have the graphic on your computer (and it is
not available on the web):
In the lower left of the list of links along the left
side of the wiki page, click on "Upload file." Upload your
graphic to the wiki.
Remember the name of the image file you have uploaded.
Put a blank line above and below where you wish to insert the graphic in your
paper. Make sure the cursor is where you wish to insert
the graphic. Then, click the "Insert Image" icon (top row
of icons, the yellow icon). Insert the file name in the
box, and click Ok.
When you are finished adding graphics, click "Save Page."
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ADD YOUR PAPER TO THE APPROPRIATE TEXTBOOK WIKI CHAPTER
NOTE: Please try to make your edits quickly. If two people are
editing at the same time on the wiki, there may be a conflict,
and you (or they) may lose edits.
On your personal wiki page, click the "Edit" button at the top.
Then click the "Wikitext" button (upper left on the editing icons bar).
This will bring up your paper with its wikitext formatting codes embedded.
Highlight your entire paper, and copy it to the clipboard. You need to
copy the underlying wikitext code with your paper, otherwise you will
lose formatting (bold and italic) when you paste it into the textbook wiki.
Then go to the textbook main page:
http://drmills.wiki-site.com/index.php/Textbook
Click on the chapter that is relevant to the topic area of your paper.
You will see a table of contents for that chapter. Scroll down and click on the sub-topic
area that is relevant to your paper.
For Chapter 9 and 10 only:
Do not add your paper to the main page of Chapter 9 or 10.
Instead, click on the specific SECTION relevant to your paper
(the link is in underlined, in blue text).
On the section page, you will see another table of
contents.
Browse through the table of contents until you find the
heading that is most related to the topic of your paper.
If there is no exact match, find the most closely related topic
(or if there isn't anything closely related, email me, and
I will add your topic heading to the outline).
Click on outline heading most relevant to your topic.
You will be taken to that heading in the section text.
On the same line, on right side, click on "Edit".
NOTE: Always edit by clicking on the blue section "edit" link on the right side, not the
Edit tab at the top of the page. It is much easier and faster to edit a
smaller section than the whole wiki page.
Scroll though the text of that sub-section and decide where
it would be most appropriate to add your paper. Put the
cursor there, and add a couple of blank lines above and
below where you wish to add your paper.
You will insert your paper inside a "box" (to identify student
contributions).
Click on the Insert Table icon (top row of editing icons, just
to the left of the yellow icon).
A "Table Properties" window will appear.
For both "Rows:" and "Columns:" enter: 1
For Width, enter: 600
Then click "Ok"
A box will be inserted.
Put the cursor inside the box, and click your mouse.
The cursor should be blinking inside the box.
Paste your paper from the clipboard into the box.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Save Page".
After the page is saved, scroll back to where you inserted your
paper.
Your paper should appear inside the box you created.
To identify your paper as a student contribution, we will
change the text color to dark green.
Click the "edit" button to the right of your paper (you may have to scroll up
to the top of the section).
Then highlight all of the text in your box.
Click the "Text Color" icon (on the 2nd row of icons, to the
right, just to the right of the anchor icon).
On the second line of colored boxes, click the dark green box.
Your paper should now be in green colored text.
NOTE: Rarely, changing the text color sometimes doesn't "stick". If not,
that's ok -- just as long as your paper is inside of a box (to differentiate
it from the rest of the text).
Scroll down on the outer window, and click "Save Page" at the bottom.
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