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AUG 5 JOIN Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Women in Music Edit-a-thon

AUG 5 JOIN Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Women in Music Edit-a-thon Please join us The Construction Company, the International Alliance for Women in Music, and Wikimedia NYC as we edit, correct, and add Wikipedia pages related to Women in Music! This event will be held at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts from 4:00-7:30PM on Monday, August 5th. We'll be in the Film Room on the 3rd Floor - the front desk will direct you. No experience editing Wikipedia is required but please bring a laptop! Experienced Wikipedians will be around to help out, and we’ll be starting the edit-a-thon with a brief tutorial to cover the basics. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. MORE INFORMATION:    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Women_in_Music_Edit-a-thon Articles to Create/Edit [ edit ] Articles to Edit Peggy Stuart Coolidge Mara Helmuth Lori Laitman Sabrina Peña Young Emma Lou Diemer Doreen Carwithen Articles to Crea...

Professor Insights: 5 Tips on How to Ask Your Teacher to Revise Your Grade

5 Tips on How To Ask Teachers to Revise Your Grades After teaching everything from early childhood to college for the last fifteen plus years, I thought it would be helpful to share some tips on asking your teacher to revise your grade.  1. Read the Syllabus If the assignment was writing to write a ten page essay and you submitted a 200 word blurb worthy of Facebook, then realize that your best bet is to read the syllabus carefully next time and submitting the right assignment. If the wording was ambiguous, then ask politely if you could resubmit your assignment with the correct requirements, maybe for partial credit. 2. Don't Plagiarize Believe it or not, your professor will not believe that you "accidentally" copied the entire Wikipedia entry on Napoleon Bonaparte. If it is a formatting issue, then be sure to read the class requirements on proper citation . Some professors are real sticklers for correct citation, checking every comma, and some just want to ...