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A clear step-by-step “recipe” from inquiry question → web article → public SDG group collection
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- Step 1 – Start with your inquiry question
- Choose your topic or person (for example, language in schools, ocean pollution, voting rights, etc.).
- Turn it into an open, researchable question (not yes/no), such as: “How does ______ affect ______ for ______?”
- You’ll later use this question as the title of your Group Collection (not the title of the article itself).
- Step 2 – Match your question to one UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)
- Go to the UN SDG groups page on Writing Partners: 17 study groups (keep a separate tab open for these directions so you can come back).
- Skim the SDG names and ask: “Which SDG is closest to my question or person?” (for example, language & education → SDG 4, climate → SDG 13).
- Once you pick one SDG, join that SDG study group on Writing Partners.
- Step 3 – Create a public Group Collection inside that SDG group OR Find a collection that is similar to your question and add to that Collection.
- In your Library, make sure you have joined or created the right public group for your SDG (“Create Groups” button if needed, or join an existing SDG group) (Uploading, Collecting, Copying, and Controlling Access to Documents).
- Go to that SDG group page and click Create a Group Collection (top‑right on the group page).
- Set the collection to Public so other Writing Partners users can join and add documents in that group; give it a title that is your inquiry question (for example, “How do different Englishes shape power in U.S. classrooms?”).
- Step 4 – Find and clean the web article you want to upload
- On the Web, find an article that helps answer your question (for example, this Wikipedia article African-American Vernacular English.
- Use PrintFriendly to make a clean, ad‑free version of that page to copy—this gives you simpler text and images that are easier to paste into Writing Partners.
- Copy the text and any important images you want to discuss from the PrintFriendly version (avoid menus, ads, or junk sections, just like the Writing Partners guide suggests for HTML uploads) (Uploading, Collecting, Copying, and Controlling Access to Documents).
- Step 5 – Create the document on Writing Partners and paste the article
- On Writing Partners, click Create Document at the top of the page.
- Choose Copy-and-Paste from Web Page (HTML) as your upload type (this is where you paste in what you copied from the web) (Uploading, Collecting, Copying, and Controlling Access to Documents).
- Give the document a good, clear Document Title (usually the article’s title plus maybe author name, not your inquiry question).
- Paste the cleaned article text and images into the big box; delete anything you don’t need (extra ads, menus, unrelated links, etc.).
- Click the blue Upload button so the document starts uploading.
- Step 6 – Set the document’s Properties for a public SDG collection
- After upload, go to More → Properties for that document to adjust settings (this is the same Properties panel shown in the Writing Partners help PDF) (Uploading, Collecting, Copying, and Controlling Access to Documents).
- Use these settings when you’re preparing a document that will go into a public collection:
- Privacy: Public
- Links: Allow (so clickable links work in comments and text)
- Images and videos: Allow (so you and others can use images and video in comments and in the text where appropriate)
- Last Names: Hide (to protect privacy)
- Solicit Revisions: No (you’re not asking others to edit the main text directly)
- Others can append: No (keep the source text stable; collaborators respond in comments)
- Enable image commenting: Yes (helpful if there are images in the article)
- Hide replaced paragraphs: Yes (keeps the page cleaner when edits happen later)
- Enable AI commenting: Yes (so you can use AI support inside the document)
- Include Usage report: Yes (if you want to track how the document is used)
- Check that the document title is accurate, and (now or later) fill out the Document Information fields like Author, Citation, Publication Date, Source URL, etc., the way the guide models with its example citation fields (Uploading, Collecting, Copying, and Controlling Access to Documents).
- Step 7 – Add the document to your public SDG Group Collection
- From inside the document, or from your Library, find the option to Add to Collection (this appears in the document options menu).
- Choose the public Group Collection you created in that SDG group (the one titled with your inquiry question).
- If the document is still private, Writing Partners will prompt you to make it public when you add it to a public collection—accept this so it can appear in the public SDG collection.
- Go back to the SDG group page and click your Group Collection to confirm the article is now listed there with the correct title and settings.
- Step 8 – Invite others and keep everything organized
- Use the Invite button at the top‑left of the main menu on the group and on the document page to invite classmates, teachers, or friends to view/comment in the collection and on the article (Uploading, Collecting, Copying, and Controlling Access to Documents).
- As you add more documents to the SDG collection, keep using the same pattern: upload → set Properties for public use → Add to your public Group Collection → invite people as needed.
on the uploaded document.