User talk:Wendy Ikoku

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(Copied from Elizabeth Spencer talk page)[edit]

[Start of section copied from Elizabeth Spencer (writer)'s talk page:]

Dear Wendy (and GünniX),
I noticed that you have both been expanding the section on books by adding entries and also ISBNs. I therefore thought I'd help by making all these entries conform to the format recommended in the guidelines, here; so, it should be OK now.
If there are more works to insert later, then please just add the titles in the bulleted list(s) and I'll do the rest. Thank you.
I'll do some more work tomorrow on the rest of the article, mainly by making all citations consistent.
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 22:32, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for you help, Patrick I am new to this, and I appreciate your support! Wendy Ikoku (talk) 23:10, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Wendy,

You're most welcome; always a pleasure to help. Just post me a message at the talk page of any article where you need help, and I will be glad to assist whenever I can. The best way to attract another editor's attention from an article's talk page, is to code a "User link" template, like this (for me): {{U|Pdebee|Patrick}} (notice the double curly brackets, and the two vertical bars) and make sure it's coded into the message before you press the 'Publish changes' button. (I've also corrected my "user link" in your reply above, so that you can see how to do it, and you could copy and paste it just like that next time you want to contact me.)

Please note how we make our messages easier to read by indenting them, so we can see the "thread"; this is achieved by simply adding a colon for each iteration. (You can see how by simply editing this section, and you'll see how I've done it here, in this reply to you.) This is explained in more detail here: Help:Talk pages#Replying to an existing thread.

Finally, don't worry about "being new" here; we've all started the same way but you will be fine once you've gained a bit of experience; I'll be glad to guide you when you need it.

Good luck with your work here, Wendy, and thank you for your contributions to our encyclopedia!

With kind regards for now;

Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 00:08, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Patrick

I thought I'd have a go at addressing you properly! Although I did the Wikipedia training sessions, I am learning so much from you!

Again, many thanks.

Wendy

Dear Wendy,

Well done, although the user link requires that you sign your post with four tildes (~~~~), otherwise the other editor wouldn’t see the notification, unless he/she has the article in his/her watchlist which, luckily, I do.

(As you can see, I’ve now also added another colon to all paragraphs of my reply, so as to indent them.)

I am also going to relocate this section to your own talk page, because most of it is unrelated to this article on Elizabeth Spencer; I’ll do this later this afternoon. Thank you.

With kind regards for now;

Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 14:10, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[End of section copied from Elizabeth Spencer (writer)'s talk page.]

If you need any help[edit]

Dear Wendy,
If you need any assistance, just contact me from here (your talk page), and I'll help whenever I can. Otherwise, it's also a good idea to know that you can ask for help from the whole community of Helpers: all you need to do is simply to:

click on the 'New section' tab above and write a section title (for example: How can I ... ?);
type {{helpme}} at the top of your new section (note the two pairs of curly brackets);
type the text of your question;
sign with four tildes (~~~~) at the end;
press the 'Publish changes' button;
... and someone from the Help Desk will see it and come over to help when they can.

Hope this helped a little more.
Very best wishes of success here, and thank you for your contributions so far.
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 15:01, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Terry Roberts (novelist and educator)[edit]

Terry Roberts (born July 30, 1956) is an American novelist and educator. He has written extensively about American public education, specifically the teaching of critical and creative thinking via Socratic discussion. He is also the author of three novels, all of which flow out of his heritage in southern Appalachia. His first novel, A Short Time to Stay Here, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and his second, That Bright Land, won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award and the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South. His third novel is The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival. <insert ref # 1 CitizenTribune> <ref # 2 fellowship of southern writers> Early life and education Terry Roberts’ direct ancestors have lived in the mountains of Western North Carolina since the time of the Revolutionary War. His family has farmed in the Big Pine section of Madison County along the French Broad River for generations and is also prominent in the Madison County, NC town of Hot Springs, the setting for both A Short Time to Stay Here and That Bright Land. Roberts is the son of Lee Roberts and Helen Sampson Roberts. He was born in Asheville and raised near the small mountain town of Weaverville, North Carolina <ref # 3 Marshall conf> by his parents and his paternal grandmother, Belva Anderson Roberts, from whom he heard countless stories of long-ago mountain life. From his parents and extended family come two strong influences that became lifelong obsessions: a love of story and the written word, along with a fierce belief in the value of education. He himself went to local public schools and earned degrees from the University of North Carolina at Asheville (BA), Duke University (MAT), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD in American and Southern Literature). Career After earning an MAT from Duke University in 1979, Roberts taught high school English for nine years before returning to graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a PhD in 1991 with a dissertation on the fiction of Elizabeth Spencer. Since 1992, he has served as Director of the National Paideia Center, an educational reform institute devoted to creating schools that are both more rigorous and more equitable. During his time at the Paideia Center, Roberts has written extensively about classroom instruction and, increasingly, about teaching critical and creative thinking in the context of an expanded definition of literacy. Around 2005, Roberts began to write fiction inspired by life in the southern Appalachian mountains. Since 2013, he has lived in Asheville, North Carolina.

Bibliography Novels: A Short Time to Stay Here (Ingalls, 2012 and Turner, 2016) –winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction given annually for the best novel by a North Carolinian. That Bright Land (Turner 2016) – winner of the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award. The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival, (Turner 2019). Literary Criticism: Self and Community in the Fiction of Elizabeth Spencer (LSU Press, 1994). Look Homeward, Angel: Literary Masterpieces (Gale Studies Group, 2001). Education: The Power of Paideia Schools: Lives Defined by Learning [primary author with the staff of the National Paideia Center] (ASCD, 1998). Teaching for Understanding: the Paideia Classroom [with Laura Billings] (Eye on Education, 1998). Discussing First Freedoms: A Discussion Guide (for teachers) to A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America (with Laura Billings). First Amendment Center, 2007.

Teaching Critical Thinking: Using Seminars for 21st Century Learning [with Laura Billings] (Eye on Education, 2012). The Better Writing Breakthrough: Connecting Student Thinking and Discussion to Inspire Great Writing [with Eleanor Dougherty and Laura Billings] Foreword by John Hattie (ASCD, 2016). The New Smart: How Nurturing Creativity Will Help Children Thrive. Foreword by Howard Gardner. Turner Publishing, 2019.

Articles “Fact and Fancy in Historical Fiction” (2019) The Great Smokies Review, Issue 21, 2019 http://www.thegreatsmokiesreview.org/2016/craft-session/fact-and-fancy-in-historical-fiction/?doing_wp_cron=1580908274.4411399364471435546875

Webinar Using Discussion to Inspire Writing, ASCD, 2016 http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/webinars/using-discussion-to-inspire-writing-webinar.aspx

References

1. https://www.citizentribune.com/education/roberts-looks-to-gentle-strength-when-writing-about-appalachia-and/article_52f4b0de-2780-11e9-b183-4fe55c8e04fe.html

2. https://www.fellowshipofsouthernwriters.org/james-still-award

3. https://mds.marshall.edu/asa_conference/2019/session3/21/

Patrick Hello, I am wondering if you would be willing to take a look at the article I am wanting to submit, and critique it. Wendy Ikoku (talk) 15:02, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Wendy,

Hello to you too!

Yes, of course. I would suggest we take the opportunity to show you how to create a draft in your own user space:

copy all the prose (above) that you want to add into your article;
click on this red link to create your draft page: User:Wendy Ikoku/Terry Roberts (novelist and educator);
paste the copied prose into the new draft page;
click on the 'Publish changes' button.

As you can see, you now have a separate page for your draft article, instead of the prose being here, in your talk page: it's in your user space thanks to User:Wendy Ikoku/ (notice the "/" at the end), and it is uniquely named after the title of your draft article: Terry Roberts (novelist and educator). You will see that your new draft page also has its own talk page, and I will prime it for you, so that we can continue to communicate there about how to develop you draft further. OK?

So, if you now take the actions I've itemised above, then I'll keep an eye from here and contact you again when you're done. Speak with you soon, then.

With kind regards;

Patrick.

Dear Patrick

Thank you for taking the time to teach me this skill. I find I learn best through error analysis, and I also appreciate your step-by-step approach.

Kind regards;

Wendy Ikoku (talk) 16:12, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Great! You're getting the hang of this!... Next time I write to you, it will be from your draft article's talk page, in a few minutes. Thank you for your patience...

Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 16:15, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

HI Wendy; I left you a message, here...

Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 16:58, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for you![edit]

		The Excellent New Editor's Barnstar A new editor on the right path
		Dear Wendy, I wanted to record my appreciation of all your diligent efforts in learning to become a Wikipedia editor. It's been a joy for me to guide your early steps and, even though your first draft on Terry Roberts is now awaiting additional sources, I'd encourage you to remember that you've done a great job so far. I hope you will consider applying your editorial skills to many other articles of interest to you, and I'll remain happy to assist you further, where and when I can. Until then, please keep well and joyful, and stay safe. With kind regards for now; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 14:03, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Patrick,

Thank you for the Barnstar, which I don't know that I'd noticed before...it's like a feather in my hat! Wendy Ikoku (talk) 19:06, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas![edit]

Dear Wendy,
Merry Christmas and all very best wishes to you for a Happy New Year in 2022, in good health, joyfulness, and a sense of achievement, including here at the Wiki!
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 10:24, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Patrick, What a lovely Christmas message! My good wishes are also with you at this season, and for the New Year. May it be healthy, peaceful, and bright!

Kind regards;

Wendy Ikoku

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