CZ:Assignment instructions

Report

Proper written and oral expression is critical to your future success. Each student will choose a microbe and write a comprehensive encyclopedia style report about it. These reports will be uploaded to Citizendium, a web encyclopedia project. Typically, lab reports end up in the recycling bin following the semester. The advantage of this project is that your work will become part of a global knowledge base, and as such, is not just “busywork”.

Citizendium also has a program for class contributions to the wiki: Eduzendium.

Instructions for joining Citizendium is available [here].

Once you are approved, go to this [page]. This is our central clearinghouse. Here you can find info about the assignment.

An example wiki listing for E. coli

Additional Guidelines • These reports must be fully referenced and documented. • Follow wiki formatting style when uploading text. • A template will be provided for you to follow. • Reports containing plagiarism will be given a zero grade. It is OK to use material from Wikipedia or other sources, but wholesale copying is not OK. • Pretty pictures are available on the web, but make sure you have copyright permissions. The best option is to find something that is open-access. a) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page b) http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ c) http://www.plos.org/ • Ambitious students are encouraged to cross-post in Wikipedia, Microbe Wiki or other wikis.

Pubmed and ISI Web of Knowledge are good resources to find journal articles. • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez • http://portal.isiknowledge.com/