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Week 2 Feedback

• Thank you for turning in your assignment on time.
• You wrote something in the summary field for 23 of 34 saves (68%) in the period of review. Remember we are aiming for 100%
• The number of total saves on your individual wiki page was 12, which is in the range of what was expected for this assignment.
• Your complementary DNA sequence was correct.
• Your +1, +2, and +3 translations were correct.
• However, the -1, -2, and -3 frame translations were incorrect. It appears that you read them 3' to 5' instead of 5' to 3'. You either had to reverse the sequence or read it right to left to translate it correctly.
• Your determination of which frames contained ORFs was correct (but based on your mis-translation of the three minus frames).
• One other note: we do not label the ends of proteins 5' and 3', instead we label them N-ter and C-ter.
• I saw your separate electronic lab notebook page, but there were no notes for this assignment, just the answers again. For this assignment, the lab notebook would have explained how you arrived at your answers to the questions posed in the exercise. Please be sure to write a narrative about your process and keep your electronic lab notebook on the same page as your journal entry.
• One small note about your References section: you need to skip two lines in wiki syntax to get something to appear on a newline.
• The technical language in articles from the primary literature is definitely a hurdle for students (and even for faculty from a different field), but keep with it. Like with other fields of endeavor, it is good to take a look at the primary source.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 22:41, 23 September 2017 (PDT)

Week 1 Feedback

• Thank you for completing the assignment on time.
• You completed all of the required content and skills except for the following list. You have the opportunity to make up the points you have lost on this assignment by completing the changes requested by the Week 3 journal deadline.
  • You wrote something in the summary field for 18 of 37 saves, or 49%. We would like to see this approach 100%.
  • Please be careful to use the correct syntax for an internal wiki link versus an external one. Some of your internal links are formatted like external ones. While they do function as links, we would like you to please go back and correct the syntax so that you have practice in learning the MediaWiki syntax.
  • You organized your page using the three levels of headers, ==, ===, and ====, but you need to be careful to use them “in order” in outline form. For example, use === only underneath ==, don’t skip from == to ====.
  • One of the idiosyncrasies of using a numbered list in MediaWiki is that you cannot skip lines in between each line that begins with a “#” because it will restart the numbering from “1” again. On the Shared Journal page, you interspersed lines beginning with a “:”, so the numbering was restarted. A “:” causes an indent. When using numbered or bulleted lists, you don’t need to do manual indenting. You can also make sub-lists by using “**”, “#*”, or “#*”, or “##”. Just make sure that you don’t skip lines in between.
  • You uploaded a file and linked to it on your page, but you did not make a visible label for it, such as in [[Media:filename | visible label]]. It will look neater if you include the label.
  • You included multiple categories on your page; we would prefer to see just the category “Journal Entry” instead of the ones you chose. The value of a category is that everyone is using the same ones to create the Table of Contents page.
  • Another idiosyncrasy of MediaWiki is that if you want something to appear on a new line, you actually have to skip two lines instead of one. If you only skip one, the content on the second line will merge with the previous line.
• Thank you for your detailed Acknowledgments section; that is exactly what you should do in the future.
• I answered your question on my User talk page.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 13:36, 12 September 2017 (PDT)