User talk:Ckapla12

Week 2 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your work on time!
• During the period of review, you made 53 edits to the wiki and wrote something in the summary field 38% of the time. Remember, we are aiming for 100%.
• All of the requested tasks were completed appropriately, except for the following:
  • Electronic Lab Notebook
    • Your purpose is stated well.
    • For your methods, you need to explicitly state that you followed the directions in the handout, link to it, and include it in your references section.
    • You also need to provide more of a "blow by blow" explanation of what you did. For example, "I crossed parent 1 and parent 2 because of this reason, and I got these results (colors and proportions of offspring). I then looked at their protein structures and recorded the amino acid sequence. Then discuss your thought process of how you figured out what was different and what determined flower color. It would be helpful if you included some other screenshots to document your work, not just the purple one.
    • Be careful when talking about genotypes, phenotypes, genes, alleles, and traits (color). In some cases you are saying genes when you really mean alleles.
    • Your conclusion is stated well.
    • You have the Acknowledgments and References sections, but they need to be organized a little differently.
      • The Acknowledgements section needs to also record how you worked with your partner.
      • The academic honesty statement needs to also have your wiki signature.
    • The references section should only include citations to web pages, articles, books, software, etc. As noted above, you needed to cite the manual for this exercise. Please put the references for the class journal on this page, not the class journal page.
  • Wiki Skills
    • You have made your list of assignments, individual journal entries, and class journal entries on your User page. You need to move that code to your [[Template:Ckaplan]] page. You should also put [[Category:Journal Entry]] on that template page. Then you invoke your template on your user page and on your individual journal pages by using the code {{Ckaplan}}. When you do that, the stuff you put on the template page will appear where that code is. You will then invoke that same template on each of your subsequent weekly journal pages to fulfill the navigation links part of the assignment.
    • Note that if you want text to appear on different lines, you need to skip a link, i.e., have an empty line between them (or make a bulleted list). It is a little difficult to read some of your content because it got smushed together on the same line.
    • Use the wiki headers, bulleted, and numbered lists to your advantage to organize your page.
• To briefly answer your questions on the class journal, we can think of the chemical classifications of amino acid side chains to fall into four main groups: acidic (negatively charged), basic (positively charged), uncharged polar, and nonpolar. These different chemical properties have a huge influence on how proteins are folded and what types of chemical reactions they can do. If you want to talk more about this, let's talk in office hours.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 16:10, 6 February 2024 (PST)

Week 1 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your assignment on time!
• All of the tasks from the assignment were complete, except for the following which were incomplete or could show some improvement. You will be able to earn back points that you lost by making these corrections by the deadline for the Week 3 assignment.
  • I recommend that you do not put your gmail address on your User page. This is a public facing website and you are inviting spam by posting it here.
  • I did not receive an email from you about any worries/concerns or if there was anything else you wanted me to know. Please send me an email about this, even if your answers are "no" to both questions.
  • You wrote something in the summary field 19/70 (27%) of the time during the period of review. You made quite a large number of edits, which shows me that you are working incrementally. However, please remember to write something in the summary field each time, aiming for >90% of the time.
  • You have created some extraneous wiki pages such as New wiki page, Journal Week 2, Journal, Week 2 assignment. Please pay careful attention to the names of the pages that you are asked to create, which will be in each week's assignment. Generally the individual journal pages you will create will be called "username Week 2", etc. Please go back and delete these extraneous pages, making sure that any relevant content (if any) is moved to the appropriate page first.
  • You used headings on your page, but they are nested down beyond the "====" level that was required by the assignment. Take a look at the organization of your page to see if headers could be used more effectively with just three levels.
  • Your bulleted list in the Personal Interests section similarly goes down very far in nested levels. This would look better as a simple list with one "*" each.
  • While the picture of your cat (cute!) is showing up properly on your page, the syntax for the picture of yourself at the top of the page is incorrect. Please fix it so that we can see that image properly.
  • For the file upload/link, please use a different file than an image. For example, a .pdf file of your resume or other document you would like to share.
  • While you created and invoked your template on your user page, the content of the template needs to be updated for it to be more useful for you in the future. Your list of assignment pages, individual journal entries, class journal entries, and "Journal Entry" category needs to be on your template page. Then when you invoke the template on your user page (and other journal entries), it will appear automatically on the page.
  • Please split up your References section into separate "Acknowledgements" and "References"sections, with the appropriate content in each.
• I'm glad the Janovy reading inspired you to consider yourself a biologist!

— Kdahlquist (talk) 13:13, 25 January 2024 (PST)