{"id":2252,"date":"2012-09-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:52:47","slug":"trying-to-reboot-a-wikibook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/2012\/09\/18\/trying-to-reboot-a-wikibook\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Reboot a Wikibook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, a colleague and I at the University of Minnesota helped our students launch a Wikibook project on professional and technical writing. The link to the project is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Professional_and_Technical_Writing\">http:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Professional_and_Technical_Writing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am posting this to two blogs, one on rhetoric and one on digital pedagogy, with the hope that someone out there has a class that could reboot this project and bring it back to life. I had only four students in my technical writing course this spring, at a small private university, and they edited a few pages. However, the project needs to be much larger than four students every other year if it is going to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>My view is that students in a variety of courses could update and expand the project. The book needs material on ethics, communication theory, visual design, style guides, and more. I&#8217;m sure there are dozens of topics that could be tackled by students.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider asking your students to contribute to this project. The idea of a Wikibook is that it belongs to nobody and everybody. 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