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This first-year writing course, “DIY: The Rhetoric of Hacking, Making, and Creating,” explores writing not only as a mode of communication but as a form of communal form of making. Students will draw on our semester-long conversations on the writing-making analogy, that involves collaboratively patching ideas together, ripping drafts apart and stitching and patching versions back up, as they join the Wikipedia community. They will use the article on “DIY” as a jumping-off point to identify underdeveloped or missing subtopics within the broader DIY category. This might include entries related to critical making, underground music culture, specific crafting or DIY practices (e.g., knitting), DIY and making in non-Western cultures, or the history of specific crafting movements. Students will conduct academic research to support their contributions as they improve citations, the structure of existing articles and work towards closing content gaps.