HOW TO BE THE TA IN CHARGE OF THE TERM PAPERS

1.  Just before the term paper is due, email the TAs this message:

"Hello (T.As), I am a TA for Professor Davies with a unique task involving term papers. While marking, Prof. Davies’ wants us all to select the BEST paper on each topic. When you've finished marking please send me the best paper of each topic - I will choose the best of all to format them for an encyclopedia entry. Thank you."

2.  After term paper marking deadline: send a follow up email similar to this (reminders may take some insistence): 

"Hello again (T.As), Professor Davies may be asking for a list of the TAs who have and have not forwarded me their best term papers on each topic received. If you have not sent me your best term papers, please send me them immediately. If you have sent them already, many thanks!"

3.  Once you have received all the TA's best term papers, make a combined list under each topic category. Read them over again and decide which is the VERY best for each topic.

4.  Email Professor Davies to say you have completed this portion of the assignment. Ask him to please tell you when semester's final marks are in.

5.  When you have received notice that the semester's final marks are in, email the students who provided the best term papers:

"Congratulations, your outstanding term paper for Mysteries of the Mind was chosen to be included in an online Wikibook:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Science:_An_Introduction

With your permission, your term paper will be slightly edited for conversion to encyclopedia format. All wikibook inclusions will be anonymous. Do we have your permission to include your term paper in the online encyclopedia (no/yes)?"

Note: If a student asks to have this on their CV you may decide to be the confirmation contact in the unlikely need of future verification.  

6.  Once you received all the student's email consent, format the final term papers into proper encyclopedic format. Email them to Professor Davies.  

When you have a topic, look over what is already in the wikibook and see whether it should be a part of a page that already exists. Jim would be happy to help you with this; just ask.

For example, an essay about a particular method in linguistics should probably be a part of the Linguistics Methods page. In this case, you'd just start editing the Linguistics Method page and put in the essay where it is appropropriate. 

But perhaps it should be its own page. In this case, the way you do it is you:

• figure out which subheading it should go under. 
• Edit the main page
• Navigate to the subheading
• Type in a new line with the new page's title, like this :<code><nowiki>:[[/Categorization/]]</nowiki> </code>
• When you make the page, make sure you use the Style Guide, particularly for references. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Science:_An_Introduction/Style_Guide