User:Starsandgalaxies/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
 * Hawaiian language


 * Article Evaluation
 * Clear and concise lead, needs a summery Hawaiian grammar, content is relevant to the topic, content is missing (current language revitalization issues, unique aspects of Hawaiian, like poetry), and it deals with a sensitive topic (language endangerment).


 * Sources
 * Higgins, C. (2019). The dynamics of Hawaiian speakerhood in the family. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 47.  Montgomery-Anderson, B. (2013). Macro-Scale Features of School-Based Language Revitalization Programs. Journal of American Indian Education, 52, 41-64.  Wong, L. (1999). Authenticity and the Revitalization of Hawaiian. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 30, 94-115.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Native Hawaiians


 * Article Evaluation
 * Lead may be too concise (does not summarize everything in article), needs more information about the Hawaiian cultural revival (Hawaiian became an official language in 1972), could use information about poetry


 * Sources
 * Forster, J. (1960). The hawaiian family system of Hana, Maui. The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 69, 92-103. Ho'omanawanui, K. (2005). He Lei Ho'oheno no nā Kau a Kau: Language, Performance, and Form in Hawaiian Poetry. The Contemporary Pacific, 17(1), 29-81.  University of Hawai’i Press. (2020). ULUKAU: THE HAWAIIAN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY. Hawai’i: Author.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Lei (garland)


 * Article Evaluation
 * Good lead, neutral voice, but needs better references for the Hawaiian Lei and could use information about lei symbolism in Hawaiian poetry


 * Sources
 * Ho'omanawanui, K. (2005). He Lei Ho'oheno no nā Kau a Kau: Language, Performance, and Form in Hawaiian Poetry. The Contemporary Pacific, 17(1), 29-81.

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