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2024-03-28T14:02:24ZDeliberations before running another Wikipedia editing assignment
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/30991
Deliberations before running another Wikipedia editing assignment
Stvan, Laurel Smith
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In assessing a popular Open Educational Resource that instructs and is shaped by students, I weigh the costs for both instructors and students in using classroom Wikipedia editing assignments. Based on experiences from before and during the Covid era, I assess the ROI in instructor time and attention, reviewing what has worked best or been a struggle for editing projects aimed at expanding linguistics stubs. Successfully launching these engaged learning tasks encompasses two areas: filling Wikipedia content gaps and building student skills. Content gap concerns include finding relevant page topics for students to work with; recognizing constraints on biography pages (Wagner et al. 2016); seeking appropriately copyrighted graphics (Qaiser et al. 2022); and using the modularity of pages on minority languages. Student research and technology skill
concerns entail supporting students in sharing new knowledge; managing instructor time to track students’ training on the wiki editing tools along with their existing content assignments; using the benefits of groupwork to practice library skills training (Stvan 2021); and integrating the WikiEdu interface with other online course tools.
2022-09-23T00:00:00ZSugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/24277
Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation
Stvan, Laurel Smith
Earlier studies showed some word pairs in health discourse being conflated. If some polysemes are not recognized as fully separate senses, is there a pattern of use showing if speakers feel that experiencing one sense creates the occurrence of the second sense?
Poster presented at the Corpus Linguistics (CL 2011) conference on July 20-22, 2011
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/24276
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
Stvan, Laurel Smith
Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ordinariness of the words – leads to aspects of lexical misinterpretation remaining understudied. Lay terms with multiple senses are studied here to determine effects on misunderstanding of causality in health discussions.
Poster presented at the JPS 7th Annual Research Forum on June 7, 2013
2013-06-07T00:00:00ZCorpus linguistics of the vernacular: “catching a cold” in text types that complement Google Books data
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/24275
Corpus linguistics of the vernacular: “catching a cold” in text types that complement Google Books data
Stvan, Laurel Smith
Poster presented at the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium (TXDHC) on April 11, 2014
2014-04-11T00:00:00Z