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Article Evaluation
The Article I read was a brief summary about the start of American Literature in universities. The article at times was very unorganized and provided fun facts instead of actual information on American Literature. The article also did not provided a more clear background on the creation of American Literature in universities. Or gave a clear definition on what is American Literature. Somethings that would be cool to add to the article is more information on how it became a course in the early universities, or maybe going in detail on what qualifies as American Literature. The article however did have a consistent neutral tone. They did not add any of their biases in the article, the author did not make any positions known.Their viewpoints are underrepresented which is great, since it is background information on American Literature. The links work and supported the inforamtion the author included in the article. The author uses credible sources like academic journals and other credible academic websites. This article was apart of the Wikipedia projects, so it have not been rated.
 * Hmm that background actually seems pretty well covered. And what "American literature" all includes, well, there is a link to American literature, so that takes care of that. I'm not sure what you mean with the last sentence ("so"?--yes, WikiProjects are listed, but the article isn't rated, yes. I'll take care of that. Dr Aaij (talk) 00:16, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
 * And this is a "diff": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:American_Literature_(academic_discipline)&diff=857166430&oldid=857166049 . Click on it. Dr Aaij (talk) 00:19, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Discussion: Thinking about sources and plagiarism
Blog posts and press releases are considered poor sources because they are either someone's opinion and it does not require actual research. One reason I would not use a company's own website because of the bias it would have towards itself. It would be one sided and again their own opinion. The difference between copyright violation and plagiarism is copyright violation is you miss a guideline and quoted a source wrong, whereas plagiarism is when you completely steal someones actual words. Good ways to avoid close paraphrasing and plagiarism is to follow all quoting guidelines and try to rewrite it in your own words.

Discussion: Thinking about Wikipedia
I think Wikipedia's definition on 'neutrality' is very clear. You can use Wikipedia as a source if you look carefully and make sure the person you are getting your information from is a credible writer. The article needs to have been revised and rated and have itself credible sources. Credible sources exclude blog posts, personal journals, press release, or not academic websites. If these are used as sources you lose your credibility as a writer and in the article as well. If Wikipedia was written 100 years ago, it would be on paper and global revisions to articles would take longer than 5 minutes. It would not be as connective as it is today.

Design
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Design&diff=prev&oldid=858023936 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Design&diff=prev&oldid=858182608 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Design&diff=prev&oldid=858183253 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Design&diff=prev&oldid=858182917

Swiss Chileans
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swiss_Chileans&diff=prev&oldid=858181143 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swiss_Chileans&diff=prev&oldid=858183979 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swiss_Chileans&diff=prev&oldid=858184294 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swiss_Chileans&diff=prev&oldid=858184444

Bhajanpura
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bhajanpura&diff=prev&oldid=858186032 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bhajanpura&diff=prev&oldid=858185820 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bhajanpura&diff=prev&oldid=858186700


 * Some good edits. Adding a source was a good idea--that it didn't work properly is not a problem--see WP:CITE. Look what I did with it. Dr Aaij (talk) 18:30, 6 September 2018 (UTC)