Do we post our finished essay under our first essay link, or do we create another “Allison C’s finished essay” type of link?
I expect you to be doing all of your writing and revising for each paper within one specific wiki, i.e., first essay page, second essay page, etc.. I will be showing a couple of examples of how the wiki remembers previous version and can visually represent the logic of editing a paper in some very exciting ways. So the short answer to your question is leave the final version in the wiki, and be sure not to copy over the entire draft with a version from MS Word or some other word processing program. Rather, please do all of your editing and revising within the wiki. We will discuss the formatting differences at length this week. Thanks for offering me the opportunity to clarify this, Allison.
Additionally, Jon Udell’s brilliant screencast on the history of the Heavey Metal Umlaut entry in Wikipedia does an excellent job of explaining the power of the wiki. Keep in mind, however, that there is some brief profanity during this demonstration. Link.
“and be sure not to copy over the entire draft with a version from MS Word or some other word processing program”
So, totally hypothetically, what if one had already completed their paper in microsoft word before they read this post….. completely hypothetical, of course.
Then, hypothetically, one would know this for the next paper and let by-gones be by-gones for this one.