User:Gwenyth Toledo/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1
Pennebaker J.W. (1997). “Writing about Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process”
 * Article title:Therapy Writing
 * Article Evaluation:Article provides a lot of good information and sources on the topic. It also includes critiques and benefits to therapy writing. One thing that could be added is the academic benefits of personal writing.
 * Sources

Kelly RE, Wood AM, Shearman K, Phillips S, Mansell W (June 2012). "Encouraging acceptance of ambivalence using the expressive writing paradigm"

Option 2
Elbow, Peter (c. 2007). “Writing Without Teachers”
 * Article title:Free writing
 * Article Evaluation:The article is short, has good sources and covers the basics of free writing but has room for improvement. The article fails to mention the benefits of free writing outside of academics. A section could be added about personal free writes.
 * Sources:Marshall, Sharon. (2009). “A case for private freewriting in the classroom”

Option 3
Epple, Dorothy. "Journal Writing for Life Development." Advances in Social Work. 8.2 (2007): 288–304.
 * Article title:Journal Therapy
 * Article Evaluation:This article only briefly touches topics of journal therapy, but provides good sources and techniques to journaling. There is room for improvement and more detail on the topics addressed.
 * Sources:Adams, Kathleen. "Journal Therapy." The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines. New York City: 1999

Option 4
“Diary” Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 7 June 2012
 * Article title:Diary
 * Article Evaluation:This article goes in depth about historical diaries and types of diaries, but does not mention any benefits to diaries or emotional/therapeutic aspects to diaries. There is a lot more that could be added to this article about the emotional aspect to a diary.
 * Sources

”Journal” Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 7 June 2012

Option 5
Personal journal
 * Article title:Journal
 * Article Evaluation:This article needs work. There is no broad definition of what a journal is, and only briefly touches on kinds of journals. The sources are not good, and some links take you to the wrong page.
 * Sources

Academic journal