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Welcome to LitWiki, a collaborative way to teach online classes and augment face-to-face courses in the humanities. Want to edit Wikipedia, but find it too daunting? Why not start here to gain experience and add to our community knowledge. Find out more about our mission and focus on our about page.

Course Support

Projects

Composition FAQ

Contribute

⛔️	New users must confirm their email addresses (click Preferences above, right) before they can edit any pages on the wiki.

✅	New users might begin with: How to Contribute. If you are unfamiliar with writing on a wiki, see our help page, especially the links under getting started.

For more information or to find out how your class can use LitWiki, contact Dr. Gerald Lucas. User account creation is currently disabled, so if you need an account for your class, send an email to editorlitwiki.org that includes your preferred user name and what class you’re in. For what’s happening, visit current events; or see our community portal for additional information.

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-== Written by Students for Students ==
+{{dc|W}}{{Big|{{start|elcome to LitWiki,}} a collaborative way to teach online classes and augment face-to-face courses in the humanities. Want to edit Wikipedia, but find it too daunting? Why not start here to gain experience and add to our community knowledge. Find out more about our mission and focus on our [[LitWiki:About|about page]].}}
-Welcome to LitWiki, a new experimental way to teach online classes. LitWiki proposes to allow students to find and foster their own knowledge of literature and composition by contributing that knowledge to this web site. As is the nature of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki], this site is a collaborative effort of all students in Dr. Gerald Lucas’ online literature and composition courses. Presently, this site/idea are under development, but LitWiki should be ready to use by the Spring of 2005. Check back for more details.
+== Course Support ==
+* [[ENGL 1101|English Composition I]]
+* [[ENGL 1102|English Composition II]]
+* [[ENGL 2111|World Literature I]]
+* [[ENGL 2122|British Literature II]]
+* [[ENGL 5106|Tech Writing in the Digital Age]]
-LitWiki is a part of the [http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/ LitMUSE] server in the [http://humanities.maconstate.edu Division of Humanities] at [http://www.maconstate.edu/ Macon State College], Georgia. For more information, contact [http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/~glucas/contact.shtml Dr. Gerald Lucas].
+== Projects ==
+* [[CompFAQ:Index|Composition FAQ]]
-== Purview ==
+== Contribute ==
+{{A warn|New users ''must'' confirm their email addresses (click Preferences above, right) before they can edit any pages on the wiki.}}
+{{A tip|New users might begin with: [[LitWiki:How to Contribute|How to Contribute]]. If you are unfamiliar with writing on a wiki, see our [[Help:Contents|help page]], especially the links under [[Help:Contents#Getting Started|getting started]].}}
-This site will focus on the following types of resources:
+For more information or to find out how your class can use LitWiki, contact [[grl:Contact|Dr. Gerald Lucas]]. User account creation is currently disabled, so if you need an account for your class, send an email to {{Nospam|editor|litwiki.org}} that includes your preferred user name and what class you’re in. For what’s happening, visit [[LitWiki:Current_events | current events]]; or see our [[LitWiki:Community_Portal | community portal]] for additional information.
-* factual information, definitions, extended definitions
-* theory and criticism summaries and syntheses
-* bibliographical links and literature reviews
-This site will '''not''' focus on, yet might contain some of, the following:
-* interpretation and criticism
-* journals or blogs
-* creative writing
-Contributions should keep the purview of this site in mind when submitting articles.
-== Current Offerings ==
-* [[Composition FAQ]]
-* [[Epic Genre]]
-* [[The Odyssey Summary]]