SEO Scout in a Writing Task: Scouting Out the Way to Write a Lead Section in a Wikipedia Article

The lesson focused on in this article was implemented in an English course termed the Wikipedia course. This course involves students learning to write, revise, and edit a Wikipedia article (Rangsarittikun & Watson Todd, 2022), where the goal of teaching writing shifts away from writing for teachers to read towards producing content for the world, (meaning that their article may be read by millions of people!). The lesson idea presented in this article was initiated and run in Week 10 (roughly halfway through the course), when students were expected to have the bulk of their Wikipedia article written. For that week, as such, the discussion and activities were structured around the Lead section, the first three to four paragraphs of a Wikipedia article that outline the entire article.