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Spring 2013 Organic Honors Project

Objective

Learn academic research skills then apply them to increase accessibility of chemical information to the general public through wikipedia.

Project guidelines

Accounts

Each student will be required to create his or her own Wikipedia account. Students will then be assigned to a group. The sandbox feature, accessible from the top right of the page once you have logged into your account, is a space that you can create your article in stages. Your fellow group members are also able to edit the page. It will be the way we measure group progress before final submission. Each group will elect a leader whose account sandbox will be used to prepare the article before submission. Once the leader is chosen, they will add a link to their sandbox to the group project page. Instructions for creating links can be found here Help:Link. Each group will then choose a relevant chemical lacking a Wikipedia article and update the project page to reflect this.

Article Requirements

Further information: Help:Contents
Further information: Wikipedia:Your first article

All articles must conform to Wikipedia's standards on notability and must follow the manual of style for chemical articles.

Chembox

Further information: Wikipedia:Chemical infobox


References

Further information: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Chemistry/References and external links

Resources

For any Wikipedia questions, Help:contents has all of the answers.

A list of potentially useful resources and software exists here. In addition, the University of Illinois Chemistry library has a number of useful resources, most importantly, SciFinder. SciFinder is an extensive database of scholarly chemistry articles.

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/chx/

ChemDraw is another useful program for drawing chemical structures. It can be found for free here:

http://www.chem.illinois.edu/clcwebsite/ChemDrawUIUC.html

The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics has an extensive list of chemicals with their properties. It's available in the library and here:

http://www.hbcpnetbase.com/

Feel free to use the "Talk" page (tab at the top of the page) to ask questions, leave comments or suggestions, etc. Instructions for talk page use are here. You can also email us. Be sure to use the following format for the subject line, "Group #-Chemical." We would like to avoid your emails getting lost or ignored.

Deadlines

  • Feb. 8 Group Submissions
  • Feb. 18 5PM Scholarly research clinic
  • Mar. 1 Article summaries due
  • Mar. 5 6PM Wikipedia tutorial
  • Mar. 15 First drafts due
  • Apr. 12 Final projects due
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