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Topics[edit]

Harriet Jacobs Aschr3 (talk) 02:51, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Frost Aschr3 (talk) 02:51, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rita Dove Aschr3 (talk) 02:51, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Aschr3, any of these topics will work for you. so it's really up to you. It would be nice to see more work on Dove, whose article is likely less developed than those for Jacobs and Frost. You may have a harder time finding a way to contribute to Frosts's article, since he is such a popular poet and other editors may be "policing" edits to his article. I also recommend branching out from solely thinking about authors; you may choose to contribute to several articles about works by these authors, so you are not doing only biographical research. Formatting here also has some problems. You only need to add your signature once when adding content (not once to every line of content). The point is to let readers know when you did this work, so one signature is fine. Also, you have neglected to add a "Topics" heading to your Talk page, as required. I've added one for you so you can see what they look like. headings and subheadings are the best way for readers to be able to break up the information in an article, so they are not confined about what kind of content they are reading. Your topics, for example, are not part of the "Welcome" information Wikipedia gave you, but without the heading it looks like they are. Good luck!Nadinecross78 (talk) 16:38, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of Contributions[edit]

Rita Dove

•I will look into her bibliography and make sure that all of her works are accounted for and have wiki links, if possible.

Sonata Mulattica

•I will add a picture of her book.

•I will also list the parts or poems that are in this book then cite where I got them from.

•I also plan to look into more critiques or review, both good and bad, of this book.

American Smooth (book)

•I will make a new section for information about what the book is about.

•I will also try to find more reviews for this book and actually write out what is in the reference then cite it at the bottom of the page.

Aschr3 (talk) 02:21, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

These contributions sound great, Aschr3. I recommend you also take a look at the "Film Adaptation" section of Sonata Mulattica and see if that information needs to be updated (it's all from 2013). I also recommend you take a look at some other collections of poetry by other authors and get a better feel for what information shown up on articles for poetry books. For both books, you could look for literary criticism (rather than just reviews) of the book and add a summary of criticism, since that would allow you to really learn ore about Dove's work and provide useful information to other readers. I think making these two articles more consistent in format with each other and with other articles about poetry collections would definitely be worthwhile. Nadinecross78 (talk) 20:25, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Summary[edit]

There are two main passages I would like to work on. The first is called Sonata Mulattica. It is a poem by Rita Dove. I would first like to start by adding a photo of her book. It has been hard to find one that is not copyrighted. I would also like to list the parts or poems that are in this book so the readers can find certain ones, if interested. If any already have a link, I will hyperlink the into that page. There was also a film made, that I would like to find reviews of critiques of as well as the book. My second piece I want to work on is a book by Rita Dove called American Smooth (book). When looking at this page it is very plain. I want to add a section where viewers can get an overview of the book before reading it, such as a summary. I would also like to look into more criticisms and critiques of this book. I will also look for additional information on this book and add it if I feel necessary. Aschr3 (talk) 22:06, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All of these edits sound great! Nice work! Nadinecross78 (talk) 23:31, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Annotated Bibliography[edit]

Poetry Foundation (2015). "Rita Dove". Retrieved 2015-11-5

This source is a bibliography on the life of Rita Dove. This is very helpful because I found information on here that is not on wikipiedia. I plan to update the information. Specifically, I want to add the rest of her works to the Bibliography tab on her home page. I started on wikipedia and that is how I ended up at this source. I'm not sure if this would be concidered scholarly. There are a lot of sources listed at the bottom of the page which gives it credibility.

Viebahn, Fred. (2008). "Rita Dove: A Selective Bibliography". Callaloo, 35(3), 804-805.

This source is scholarly because it came from a book and off of JSTOR or an academic database. It has listed the book, poems, interviews, anything Rita Dove has participated in. I will use this also for the bibliography section on her page. This will give me more to add than just a few.

Woods, Paula L. (May 17, 2009). "Sonata Mulattica: Poems' by Rita Dove". Los Angelos Times. Retrieved 2015-11-5.

This source gives the background of how the Sonata Mulattica came to be and what it contains in the context. I will use it, to give a summary as to what the book is about. I may also add in a section giving the backround information becuase that may benifit the wiki page. I found this source by searching for critiques of this book. This is a news paper article from 2009 form the LA Times.

Wriston, Jillian. (2013). "Sonata Mulattica: Rita Dove's Juggling Act". Retrieved 2015-11-5.

Here, I found a critique of this book. This women goes into detail about good and bag things that Dove did during the book. It also goes into detail about the book itself. She also gave important quotes or lines throughout. I plan on making new sections with these.I did not use a database to find this, rather the internet, leading me to this website. I would say this is a scholarly article because the women who wrote it had very exceptional credintials at the bottom of this page.

Nice work, Aschr3. One clarification: The Wriston article is a scholarly source (as you've noticed), but it is also from an online journal. If you use it in your edits, make sure to cite it as a journal article, and not just as a web site. Other than that, just several typos throughout. be sure to carefully proofread your final edits so they appear credible! Nadinecross78 (talk) 21:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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