User:HannSel19/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
(My current preference for this project.) On Such a Full Sea I was interested in this Wikipedia page because I thought the novel was interesting and its dystopian society shaped by environmental crises fit with this course.
 * Article title
 * Article Evaluation

Overall, this article has a lot of room for improvement, so I think it would be a good choice for a semester long project.

Allan, Angela S. "'Our Sense of Purpose': Speculative Fiction and Systems Reading." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Volume 52, Number 3 (November 2019), pp. 406-424, doi-org.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/10.1215/00295132-7738578.
 * Lead Section: Currently, the lead sentence is a single sentence stating the date the novel was published. This should be developed further to give more of an overview of what the book is about and why it matters. The lead section should also better set up the structure of the whole page.
 * Content: The page's content is very sparse; it only has a lead section and a reception section with a subsection for awards. Therefore, I would suggest adding sections for a plot summary, characters, and themes. I would also make awards its own section.
 * Tone and Balance: The tone of the writing is neutral, but the content of the writing focuses entirely on awards, which does create some bias. To address this, I think more sections and content need to be added.
 * Sources and References: The page references 13 sources, and all of these sources seem to be about awards. While these are useful, I would suggest making use of several scholarly sources discussing this book. A greater diversity of sources would also be beneficial for bolstering the content of this page.
 * Organization and Writing Quality: Overall, there is not a ton of writing. However, the sentences that are currently on the page do not seem to flow together too well and could use some editing to make them more concise and reader-friendly. The organization could also use improvement, and I think more sections should be added. Furthermore, as mentioned in my content critique, I think awards could be established as its own section rather than a subsection.
 * Images and Media: The article only uses the image of the book cover, and it does not have a caption. I think a caption should be added, and more images could be added throughout the page to make it more visually appealing.
 * Talk Page Discussion: This page is part of WikiProject Books, but the talk page has not been used. However, the talk page does provide a link to the general article structure for books, which could be a helpful reference when modifying this page.
 * Overall Impressions: The article is rated as a Stub on the quality scale, indicating that it could use a lot of work and is underdeveloped. I think working on this page would provide valuable improvements, and I would initially begin by adding sections like a plot summary and reference scholarly sources.
 * Sources

Barrish, P. Speculative Fiction and the Political Economy of Healthcare: Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea. J Med Humanit 40, 297–313 (2019). https://doi-org.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/10.1007/s10912-018-9514-4

Fan, Christopher T. "Animacy at the End of History in Changrae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea." American Quarterly, vol. 69 no. 3, 2017, p. 675-696. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/aq.2017.0056.

Huang, Michelle N. "Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit." American Literature, Sept. 1, 2021; 93 (3): 497–523. doi: https://doi-org.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/10.1215/00029831-9361293.

Johns-Putra, Adeline. "The Rest is Silence: Postmodern and Postcolonial Possibilities in Climate Change Fiction." Studies in the Novel, vol. 50, no. 1, spring 2018, pp. 26+. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A533556994/LitRC?u=sfsu_main&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=ccfcc4ec.

Min, Susette. "Biopower, Space, and Race in Asian American Studies." American Literature, Volume 88, Number 4 (December 2016), pp. 839-854, ejournals.ebsco.com.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/direct.asp?ArticleID=44F6B124C334AD0C331C.

*For the future, I will have to fix these links if I use these as sources because they note that they are accessed through San Francisco State University and do not use uniform citation practice.

Option 2
The Year of the Quiet Sun I evaluated this article as part of the "Evaluate an Article" assignment. https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tucker_wilson
 * Article title
 * Article Evaluation
 * Sources

https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/john_w_campbell_memorial_award

''*I did not find any scholarly sources through the SFSU Library. From searching for information on the book with Google, I was not able to find too many good sources of information either beyond blog reviews and the already existing Wikipedia page.''

Option 3
**(If On Such a Full Sea does not work, this is my next preferred option.) Amnesia Moon I was interested in this Wikipedia page because I thought the title sounded exciting. When evaluating the page and learning more about the work, I thought it was interesting that it was created by adapting a series of the author's previously unpublished short stories.
 * Article title
 * Article Evaluation

Overall, this article has a solid basis, but it could use some refinement.

Rossi, Umberto. “From Dick to Lethem: The Dickian Legacy, Postmodernism, and Avant-Pop in Jonathan Lethem’s Amnesia Moon.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, Mar. 2002, pp. 15–33. EBSCOhost, search-ebscohost-com.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,cookie,url,uid&db=hft&AN=509288118&site=ehost-live.
 * Lead Section: Currently, the lead sentence is concise and seems to be the right size in relation to the rest of the content on the page. However, the final sentence discusses the history of the cover art, which is not discussed throughout the rest of the page; I would suggest omitting this information from the lead section and integrating it into a different section on the page.
 * Content: The page's content consists of a lead section, plot summary, second bibliography, and a see also section. In terms of the secondary bibliography section, I would remove this and incorporate more of the information from this source so that it can be listed alongside the existing references. Like the other articles I have evaluated, sections on characters, themes, and reception should be included.
 * Tone and Balance: The tone of the page is mostly neutral, and the plot summary is not too extensive; there is a decent balance in how much information is provided for each of the preexisting sections. However, as I also note in more detail in my organization and writing quality critique, there is some information in the plot summary that does not belong, and that information does slightly disrupt the informational tone of the plot summary.
 * Sources and References: Both of the sources for this page are articles in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, so it would be good to use information from a more diverse set of sources and scholarly articles if possible.
 * Organization and Writing Quality: The writing style is straightforward, but there are some punctuation errors with commas. For organization, the final two paragraphs of the plot summary section incorporate information that does not belong in a plot summary, like details on how certain moments reflect the texts. I would suggest that these points should be put into their own section to improve organization.
 * Images and Media: The article has a single image of the first edition book cover with a caption indicating that detail. I think additional images would create a more interesting page to look at, and in particular, I would be interested to see the book cover of the second edition that is mentioned in the lead section.
 * Talk Page Discussion: This page is part of WikiProject Novels, and the talk page is not currently being used. If I chose to work on this article, it would be good to start building a collaborative environment by beginning a discussion.
 * Overall Impressions: The article is rated as a Stub and as low importance on the quality scale. In comparison to some of the other stub articles that I have seen, this one does not need quite as much work, particularly since it has an already fairly well-developed plot summary. However, sections like characters, themes, and reception would make it stronger.
 * Sources

*Just like for On Such a Full Sea, ''I will have to fix this link if I use it as source because it notes that it is accessed through San Francisco State University. Unfortunately, this was the only source I could find referencing Amnesia Moon through the San Francisco State University library, and it overlaps with this page's secondary bibliography. Searches for the book with Google do not lead to too many reliable sources.''