User talk:Ntesfaio

Feedback on Week 1 Assignment

I am posting the feedback on your Week 1 assignment here.

• Thank you for submitting your assignment on time.
• All of the items listed in the assignment were completed except for the following items noted below. You have the opportunity to make up the points you lost on your assignment by making the requested changes by the Week 3 assignment deadline.
  • Your snail mail address needs either punctuation (commas) or to be separated onto separate lines. To get the wiki to put text on a new line, you actually have to skip an entire line.
  • When describing your independent research, say the dates like you would for your work experience. Also, it is customary to say "to present" instead of "current".
  • You wrote something in the summary field 127 out of 186 times (68%). The number of saves tells me that you are saving incrementally, early, and often, which is great. However we are aiming to write something in the summary field 100% of the time, so you have some room to improve on that.
  • Please remove the category "Shared" from your user page; that is only for the shared journal page.
  • As noted in class, you didn't need an additional Week 1 individual journal page.
  • You formatted your external link with a leading space and I was unsure whether that was intentional.
  • In your Acknowledgments section, please use the exact wording of the Academic Honesty statement and be sure to include your wiki signature.
• Your Excel knowledge is going to come in handy in this class!

— Kdahlquist (talk) 12:46, 12 September 2019 (PDT)

Feedback on Week 5 Database Page

I am posting feedback on your Week 5 Database page here.

• Thank you for submitting your assignment on time.
• You completed all of the requested items except for the following:
  • When creating a link to download a file, please use the syntax [[Media:filename | visible label]] instead of [[File:filename | visible label]]. The latter does not create a direct download link, but takes you to a secondary page.
  • When we ask whether the database content is covered already, that means whether other databases have the same content, not whether this database has been cited by other papers?
  • I'm not sure what you meant about differences in downloading the data between public and private computers.
  • You need to provide in text citations in the form of hyperlinks to the database page from which you got the information for every question.
  • You also needed to cite the assignment page and journal article in your list of references. Your citation to the database needs the year in parentheses to be the correct APA format.
• As we move forward in the class, we will begin to talk more about "Quality Assurance" and "Data Curation and Re-use". In fact, the Week 7 assignment is predicated on the re-use of data from my lab that has been deposited in a public database.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 10:23, 11 October 2019 (PDT)