S.M.U. English Graduate Students Wiki



Welcome to the Wiki for English Graduate Students at S.M.U. (WegsSMU) (v0.1) The experimental digital archive about S.M.U. English Graduate Studies that anyone can edit

articles since April 17 2009


 * Recently Added Pages
 * Course Offerings
 * PhD Class of 2015


 * Current Courses
 * African American Autobiography
 * Authorship in Nineteenth-Century America
 * Modern British Literature, 1890-1940
 * Survey of Literary Criticism
 * Ulysses


 * Current Students
 * PhD Class of 2013
 * PhD Class of 2014
 * PhD Class of 2015


 * Past Courses
 * Fall 2008
 * Spring 2008
 * Fall 2007
 * Course Offerings


 * Teaching Information and Resources
 * ENGL 1301
 * ENGL 1302


 * SMU English Graduate Extras
 * Reading Groups
 * SMU-in-Taos
 * WegsSMU
 * Graduate Women's Organization


 * 17 May 2009/ A Bit of Inspiration
 * I've located The UCSB English Department Knowledge Base, designed in part by Alan Liu, online. Please feel free to peruse it and draw some design inspiration from it.


 * 17 May 2009/ Back again...
 * Sorry for the long absence. Due to the diligent work of a few individuals, we're up to 42 articles as of today. The Graduate Women's Organization page is still a stub, though, and I don't have articles up for most of the now-second-years. For obvious reasons, there are no articles yet for any of the new first years. I'll be setting ENGL 1301 up over the next few days, but I need advice about how to do that. Let's get some discussion going on the 1302 discussion page.


 * 21 April 2009/ Status...
 * We've officially broken the twenty article barrier. The goal is to be up to fifty articles before May 15th. We still need articles on old courses and on the rest of the first-years. We also need articles on First Year Writing. Ideally, a page on ENGL 1301 would include syllabus summary/breakdown including the names of the texts Jasper put on it. Once that page is made, the next task will be to make a page for the "bag of tricks" things on each individual author, where we can attach media.


 * One final note: Our wiki has an official forum which you can access through the sidebar: Community-->Forum. Let's use that to plan any major projects or additions we want to make to the site.


 * 18 April 2009/ One important note!
 * For now, we're adopting Wikipedia's style guide. That means, among other things, that abbreviations use no periods.


 * 17 April 2009/ Requests
 * Here's a list of some articles we need:
 * Blackboard
 * Courses from previous semesters
 * ENGL 1301
 * ENGL 1302
 * Literary Criticism (Spring 2009 Proseminar)


 * 17 April 2009/ Opening Day
 * The is open for business!


 * Here’s the deal: A wiki sinks or floats based upon the participation of its users. I’m going to be adding things here and there as I can, based mostly upon information available on the English Department’s website, but I need your help. Any article can be added by clicking on the “Edit” button wherever you see it. Anyone can also create an article from the main page. Just scroll down, and you’ll see a place that says “Help Out.” Below that, there’s a field that allows you to create an article. Just type in the name of the article you want to create, and you’re good to go.

To write a new article, just enter the article title in the box below.

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 * Not sure where to start?
 * Find out more about the wiki on the About page.
 * If you are new to wikis, check out the tutorial, and see Help:Contents.
 * Check out Help:Starting this wiki if you're setting up the wiki.


 * Adding content
 * Every wiki has two list of articles that need help called "Stubs" and "Wanted Articles". Don't be shy, get in there.
 * Uploading images is another really easy way to help out - see the Special:Upload page!
 * You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, some of which are documented on the templates project page.


 * Talk and more...
 * Check out the community portal to see what the community is working on, to give feedback or just to say hi.
 * Or head on over to the forums and coordinate with the community on editing, projects, and more.





''The Wiki for English Graduate Students at SMU (WegsSMU) is an experimental online digital humanities resource for current and prospective graduate students of SMU. ''

SMU-in-Taos 2008.

 