User:Isobel.w18/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

 * Article title
 * The Jesuit Relations


 * Article Evaluation
 * Strong emphasis on the economic role of these publications
 * Less detail on specific people who wrote these documents
 * Less detail of specific Indigenous tribes encountered and the Jesuits' actual interpretations of their customs
 * Some of the writing itself is less clear and the grammar and sentence structure could be improved
 * Only a few sections, and the longest sections by far are history and criticism. Could be expanded upon


 * Sources
 * Good variety of academic sources
 * Few sources in French
 * Relatively few actual references to the texts themselves

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Atala (novella)


 * Article Evaluation
 * very short article, lacking detail
 * includes a plot summary and a themes section
 * could use more detail on historical context
 * themes section could include more detail on Christianity and missionization
 * Could use more context on Romanticism and how this movement influenced the writing and description in the novella


 * Sources
 * no actual references list included

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Gwendolyn B. Bennett


 * Article Evaluation
 * goes in depth about her early life, Harlem, and literary successes and criticisms
 * long list of her published works
 * it would be interesting to include more information around her writing process, inspiration, and mentors/people whose works inspired her
 * more elaboration on her poetry would be interesting, and how her writing style changed from her poems to her short stories


 * Sources
 * A substantial source body; quite a few secondary sources, including many credible academic works, and lots of newspaper articles