Talk:E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)

Peer Review
Hi! Due to the fact that this is already a relatively developed article, it looks like a lot of your work is going to have to be in reorganizing the information and removing what isn't relevant and it looks like you already have a great plan for how to do that. I like the idea to split the Criticism and Legacy section because having a separate section for Criticisms will make it easier to expand on why her reputation declined and what caused this decline. I also think that a Modern Reception is a good idea but perhaps rather than having that or a criticism section, you could create a subsection within criticism so you can include both the criticisms that caused her decline in reputation and the criticisms that are still directed towards her today. In the legacy section you should also discuss what made her or her work feminist. I hope these suggestions help. --Aarwatson (talk) 23:46, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review 2: Hello, I really enjoyed your first draft, I think this information will flow nicely in the current Wikipedia article. I am curious if you are planning on adding more information about E. Pauline Johnson's role in the history of feminism. I don't think the current Wikipedia article makes her importance clear. I agree with the above comment that the Legacy section would be the perfect place for this! I think you could strengthen this aspect through some academic articles. Overall, I think your contributions will definitely improve this article. If you have any questions about my comment, let me know! Cpetryshyn (talk) 20:20, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review
Lead evaluation: I believe that the intro to this article is concise, but really only includes the history of life and misses the impact of her works. Content evaluation: There is a lot of information to work with in this article. Some ideas for addition that we talked about in class would be her critique of policies. This article talks about her parent's involvement in government mediation, but none of her own commentary. You could include ways that she is intersectional in her feminism. You could expand her legacy in What makes her a "New Woman". The critique could also include the language usage and cultural representation tension of her poetic mediums. Tone and balance evaluation: I think the information you are adding fits well with the tone of the article already. Sources and references evaluation: There could be more credible sources added to your article in addition to the encyclopedia. Organization evaluation: The changes you want to add will give strength to the flow of your article and make necessary information easier to access. Overall evaluation: as you finish developing the argument of your paper make sure to include the point of criticism and legacy in your introduction. It would be a shame to expand the article itself and have the readers who only read the intro miss the argument of why she is included in the history of feminism.

Alibarnabenelson (talk) 03:19, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Instructor Feedback. Note: This article has received four peer reviews.
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You definitely do need to incorporate something that shows how she is part of the history of feminism, a point that was strongly emphasized by ¾ of your peer reviewers. There is extensive scholarship on Johnson so you should not be limiting yourself to using something at the basic introductory level of an online encyclopedia. Here are two important recent works that emphasize her as a feminist and indeed as an indigenous feminist: Johnson, E. Pauline, Margery Fee, and Dory Nason. 2016. Tekahionwake : E. Pauline Johnson’s Writings on Native North America. Broadview Editions. Broadview Press. https://search-ebscohost-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat03710a&AN=alb.7460544&site=eds-live&scope=site. Strong-Boag, Veronica Jane, and Carole Gerson. 2017. Paddling Her Own Canoe : The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). The Canada 150 Collection. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. https://search-ebscohost-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=2093135&site=eds-live&scope=site. Also this article is on the older side but is very important in starting off the reappraisal of Johnson as feminist: Strong-Boag, Veronica. 1998. “No Longer Dull: The Feminist Renewal of Canadian History.” Canadian Social Studies 32 (2): 55–57. https://search-ebscohost-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ569430&site=eds-live&scope=site. FeliceLifshitz (talk) 20:18, 11 November 2019 (UTC)FeliceLifshitz