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Posted automatically via sandbox guided tour. Bhunt5 (talk) 22:05, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Topics to Edit

• Kate Chopin - The Awakening interpretations or fixing her biography page/expanding on a few things such as her honors and awards or her influences with writing.

• Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Fixing her biography page and adding more about her

• Jody Picoult - Possibly adding more about her work or life

Good start, Bhunt5. Any of these topics will work, though since you are required to have a top that originates from the class textbook, you will need to come to me and make a compelling case for why you would want to work on Jodi Picoult. If you choose either Freeman or Chopin, you'll want to consider working on multiple articles related to their work, adding critical analysis or interpretations missing from their pages, and doing the work you've already mentioned to fulfill the requirements of the assignment. Finally, note that part of the point of this assignment was to see if you understand basic Wikipedia editing features. Notice that you have not, as required, included Wikilcnks to the pages under discussion. This is something you'll want to get practice on starting now. Good luck! Nadinecross78 (talk) 18:12, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

List of Contributions

on Kate Chopin and The Awakening

For my final project proposal, I will be working on two main articles: Kate Chopin and The Awakening. On the Kate Chopin article, I noticed that there were about six places that needed citations for her biography, and I plan to fix most of the ones I am able to find information on. I also want to add links to some of her work that has not been done already. For the other article I will be working on, on "The Awakening", I plan to add a section on the ideology of gender roles in this particular time that are portrayed in Chopin's novel, and filling in places that are missing literary analyses. Both of these will have information provided by scholarly sources that I have found. I will also, if possible, add a section on the controversy of allowing this piece into the American literary canon, also with the information I found in scholarly articles.

Bhunt5 (talk) 02:38, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Bhunt5, it sounds like you'll have plenty of work to do, and that you have a good idea of how to improve coverage of Chopin and her works. I'm not entirely sure what is missing from the article on Chopin already, though, since your descriptions are a bit vague. For your prose summary and the information you post on the article Talk pages, you'll want to be much more detailed about how you are improving or correcting the articles. In any event, I think you're really working on two articles, both Kate Chopin and The Awakening, right? There is no section for literary analysis of The Awakening on the Kate Chopin page (and rightfully so; that information belongs on the article for the novel. I feel like the real work is in that project, as well as in creating a section on gender roles, and on the "canon controversy" (I'm not sure what you mean here, but that's fine; I'm sure you'll make a good case). Make sure that you have verifiable, scholarly sources to back up all of the information you add to the sections you're adding, or they will likely be flagged and removed for being original scholarship! Nadinecross78 (talk) 20:32, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Bhunt5, this list sounds good. However, I'm confused by your formatting here -- instead of putting your summary under a separate heading, you've replaced your bulleted list of edits here, so I can't compare this work with your previous work. Otherwise, well done! Nadinecross78 (talk) 23:34, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Annotated Sources

I will be using the assigned sections of each article, or book, unless specified otherwise. I will then therefore use the entire article as whole.

• Tonette Bond Inge. American Short-Story Writers, 1880-1910. Ed. Bobby Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 78. Detroit: Gale, 1989. p90-110.

This source was found on Gale Artemis Literary Sources on the Brookens database. The article is scholarly because it was found on a database rather than searching on the internet, and is compiled by editors. I chose this article because it gives information on Kate Chopin's life and events that influenced her writing. This relates to my project because it gives me a source to fix some of the citation errors that are present in Kate Chopin's article. I also thought this article would help with a few interpretation points on 'The Awakening' article I plan on adding more too.

• Short Story Criticism. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 211. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2015.

This source was also found on Gale Artemis Literary Sources on the Brookens database. The article is scholarly because it is an article on Short story criticism and also has an editor. The article was also found on a database where other scholarly articles are published. article is important to my final project because it shows critical analysis papers on Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' article I plan to add more information too. This will provide my interpretations with a credible source to back up the information I will be adding, or provide a citation for an interpretation that is already present in the article. It is unlike the other source because it does not talk about Kate Chopin's life. This article only talks the analyses of Chopin's work.

• Camastra, Nicole. Venerable Sonority in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. American Literary Realism. Volume 40, Number 2, winter 2008. Pages 154-166.

This article was found on Project Muse Database on the Brookens library online page. Project Muse only publishes scholarly articles and books, and therefore, makes this article scholarly. The article is also peer reviewed and has a lot of other sources I could use for research if I chose to use them. This article I found to relate to my final project because it speaks about the gender roles that are present in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' article. I found this section to be somewhat scarce on Wikipedia, or needing sources, and this article will provide that. There is also some new information that I did not know about Kate's influence to write on the importance of recognizing gender roles.

• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Schoenberg, Thomas J. and Lawrence J. Trudeau. “The Awakening.” Volume 199. 2008.

This article was found on Gale Artemis Literary Sources on the Brookens online database. The article was found on a credible database and has two editors, therefore making it peer-reviewed. This article provides sources for 'The Awakening' article I plan on adding interpretations to. This article is different compared to the one above, because it only focuses on the 'The Awakening' and it's content and interpretations, not gender roles. This also only focuses on 'The Awakening' compared to a few other short stories in a few of the other sources I found.

• Corse, Sarah M. and Saundra Davis Westervelt. Gender and Literary Valorization: The Awakening of a Canonical Novel. Sociological Perspectives. Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 139-161. Sage Publications: Summer 2002.

This article was found from the JStor database on Brookens online. The article has two authors and was published in a scholarly journal, therefore, making this article a good primary source to use. This article relates to my final project because it shows why 'The Awakening' should be considered a part of the American Literary Canon. This publication also provides interpretations that the other sources I found do not. This will also provide a credible citation to the interpretations I plan on fixing in the articles.

Bhunt5, Your annotations look good, and it's clear you've done some solid research that will help you with this project. Note that your sources aren't in alphabetical order and aren't formatted according to Wikipedia formatting guidelines, though. The bigger problem here, however, is submission date. You don't add a signature to this assignment so I checked the page history, which shows that this assignment was uploaded on 11/18, a full week after the due date. This means you have submitted this work too late to receive credit. If you can prove this work was completed before the 11th, please let me know so you can receive credit. Nadinecross78 (talk) 21:22, 23 November 2015 (UTC)