User:Yunshui/Student proposals

This page is for the assessment and review of student proposals for the Ohio University Writing and Rhetoric II 2014 course. Please add proposals as new sections below, using a level 2 header to separate them (to create a level 2 header, use the coding ). Please ensure that you sign your proposal with four tildes ( ~ ).

Allie Schlafman Proposal
For my Wikipedia article I was thinking about writing about Henry Reed. Reed currently has a page on Wikipedia with only a few sentences since it is only a stub. This pieces main focus is on Henry Reed’s fiddling career. I was looking to expand the article and give more of an overview of Reed’s whole life. I have found some great sources including a lot of information about him from the Library of Congress. I am to sure how much detail I should be going in to with this article. Since the page has barely been started I know I need to decide which sections to put in and how much to put in about him. Do you have any suggestions about how I should divide up the different topics? I have looked at several other musicians pages, I have just had trouble finding a musician page of someone who isn’t very well know to see what the Wikipedia looks like. I am also a little worried about writing a bibliography. I have never had to write one before. I did find the Wikipedia style guide for bibliographies so I am hoping that will help, but if you have poop that would be helpful! I greatly appreciate your help in this and thank you so much for your time on helping our class!

Matt Schimmoeller Proposal
For my Wikipedia article edit, my proposal is to create a new page for Norris Lake in Tennessee which currently does not have a page in Wikipedia and depending on the length of that I would also like to do a minor edit on an article on Lake Cumberland. I would like to make a new page for Norris Lake because I feel that it is important to have a page for every lake and other important natural resources and it is as part of Appalachia culture as the people that live in the area because the land also influences the culture in this region. I want to create the page for this lake for fellow travelers and new travelers to the lake that would like to learn more about the lake and everything it has to offer in an easy way that is simple and also gives links to other resources that could be useful to them in an easy manner. I feel that I could add just a starting page for expanding and editing like every Wikipedia page using a prompt that shows a what a general page can look like that I found on the Wikiprojects: Lakes page. I will also use well developed lake pages to help guide me in the creation of this article. Another article that I would like to edit is the article on Lake Cumberland in Kentucky and I would like to edit this for the same reasons as above. The page is listed as a start-class article and could use more expanding on recreation and also I feel that explaining the lake’s layout and hydrology in a section could really improve the quality of the article for people who are thinking about visiting the Lake. I feel that travelers to both lakes can benefit greatly from the creation and expanding of both of these articles.

Biography
“Norris Reservoir.” Tennessee Valley Authority. Tennessee Valley Authority, n.d. Web. 24 July. 2014.

This is the page on Norris Lake on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Website who were the government institution that built Norris dam and more importantly, Norris Lake. This site will be useful for this page because it provides a lot of new information that keeps updating on the lake, so it will be useful especially if this article gets officially published and I want to keep it up to date. This source will also be good to use because it provides a lot of facts about the lake and the dam that created it, that will be useful when I am starting out the article giving the brief summary of the lake.



Norris Lake Tennessee. 2003. Web. 24 July. 2014

This source is the lakes official website and is a valid source because it is cross referenced in other sites which show it has accurate information. This source has a lot of basic things that you might need to know while visiting the lake, but it has the best information on the recreational activities you can do on the lake which will be my primary source for the recreation section in the new article for the lake. It also has a lot of information on the different marinas, lake layout, and so on which are very basic, but can be a good secondary source for most information on the page and it can also be used as a see also section of websites the reader can visit.



Norris Lake Information. Hawthorne Investments. 2012. Web. 24 July. 2014

This is another full website that has general information on the Lake. This article has more history on the lake which is good for the opening section of the article and it also has useful information for a hydrology section for the article with such information as average air temperature per each month and lake flow. It too has a lot on recreation and also some information about a lot of other things as the website above so the two combined will really make good secondary sources for the article and good websites to direct the reader to for more information and browsing on the lake.



“Norris Reservoir-General Information.” Tennessee Wildlife Agency. July, 2013. Web. 20 July 2014.

This is a page on the Tennessee Wildlife Agency’s web page that will be very use full in the natural history or hydrology section of this article. It provides the wildlife information for the whole lake and includes all types wildlife that you will encounter and also information such as average length and how to catch each type of fish which is a little too in depth but it does provide a lot of information that I could use and this page also provides a useful link for fisherman who are reading the article before they go fishing on the lake.



“Reservoirs in Tennessee River Basin.” Tennessee River Basin. Article. This is an article on all the reservoirs in Tennessee including Norris Lake. It provides information on hydrology and gives a lake overview. It provides a lot of useful information on hydrology which will be very useful for the hydrology section of the Wikipedia article. It will be the main source for this section and the overview gives a lot of in depth facts on the lake such as concrete level and the building design of the lake which will be another good secondary source on the lake.MattSchimm (talk) 15:42, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hi thank you for your help with this project, your feedback was very helpful I have finished my draft of | Norris Lake I tried to stick on the encyclopedic front for this draft, I am still having trouble figuring out how much info to put in and what info to put in. I need some more content so if you could help with that I would appreciate it. Also can you help me understand how to figure out whether a photo is a non copyrighted source to put on the page and where to find one. I would like a photo and a map layout of the lake in the info box. Thank you again for your time your feedback is very useful.MattSchimm (talk) 01:27, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Angela Reighard Ambassador Proposal
Hi! First of all, thank you for taking the time to work with us on this project! As a class, we are really enjoying learning about the Wikipedia genre and now, applying what we've learned. For my Wikipedia project, I plan to tackle the “hillbilly” article. By editing this page, I am able to breakdown one of the most common stereotypes of Appalachian people. Examining the term in-depth will allow me to bring to light the term’s history and current usage. I have the article in my Sandbox if you would like to take a look.

The “hillbilly” article is a work in progress. As of right now, the article consists of a short summary, history, music, in fiction and popular culture, local pride, see also, notes, and reference section. On the topic page, contributors discuss the modern usage of “hillbilly” and its origin, ask for an overall “clean up” of the page, and consider a “local pride” section. In addition, small details are discussed. After looking at the talk page, I have identified gaps in the article. For one, I believe the pop culture section needs to be added to, but with references. As it stands, there are no references in this entire section and many current pop culture references are left out. Similarly, I would like to add to the music section as I have found many sources that discuss this aspect of the stereotype in particular. I also think the “hillbilly” article needs a “usage” section. When I looked at other pages for pejorative terms, I noticed most include the usage. I think it could be beneficial for readers to know how the term is used and in what context. I would also like to clean up the page as a whole by rewriting sentences and fixing grammatical errors. In addition, I believe the “local pride” section needs a new title. I think it can be confusing to readers what exactly that section means.

Xini Xie Ambassador Proposal
Hi, Dear Ambassador, Thank you for your time working on our project. I plan to create an article about Ironweed Festival.

The Appalachian Women’s Alliance used to hold a festival called Ironweed, although is outdated and does not actively happen anymore, is important to Appalachia history and current situation. This alliance works to create a better life for Appalachian women in terms of racism, environmental and social injustice, and violence. The festival was put into place to acknowledge the lives of these women through artistic work such as music and dance. This is a welcoming festival encouraged to inform others about their lives and what they do; this already goes against the stereotypical view that Appalachian people want to be outsiders and stay away from the rest of the world. This festival also brings all these women together to celebrate their likeness and the issues they have in common to work towards a goal and change. There are several connecting factors to the environment owing to the detrimental and dangerous mountain top mining and removal. The problems lie in the fact that these accidents and tragedies happen in the mountains and no one is held accountable or put in place to help the victims. Environmental injustice and ignorance are important in the Appalachia region because it is their way of life. I am choosing this topic because there is not a Wikipedia website with information on what this festival stood for and there should be. It also will help me in learning more about how to create Wikipages. I think the gap in the development of a website to learn more about this subject because it is not a widely researched topic. There are an abundance of topics such as the lives of Appalachian women that are swept to the side and understudied; hopefully with the help of Wikipedia and the editors who create new sites daily that can change.

While I doing the research of this topic, I found out that there is lack of sources to incorporate. Our instructor gave me a great suggestion that I can create an article of Appalachian Women’s Alliance since this is the founder of Ironweed Festival, and include Ironweed Festival as a section of Appalachian Women’s Alliance. I think this is a really good idea.

The Appalachian Women’s Alliance does more than just celebrate a festival in honor of their people. They share stories about struggles they have endured and let their stories be known, shoot for widespread attention towards the environmental destruction that is happening, as well as health concerns, growing local food, and violence against women. Several women have talked about experiences they have had unique to the Appalachian region and people. There are many stereotypical opinions of Appalachian people, but there are statistics on how they view themselves that can help us further understand how to fix the problems they are faced with and how to keep them from happening. This organization helps spread awareness and keep alive the struggle and unfair circumstances these people are forced to deal with alone.

Look forward your comments and any other suggestions. Thank you again for your help. I really appreciate that!

Malcolm Pullom
I chose to edit the Gordon K Bush airport Wikipedia page. I chose this page because while looking through it I noticed the information on the page was outdated and lacked informant about the things that are at the airport and things the airport can do and offer. Being an aviation student at Ohio University I found pride in this Wikipedia page update not only for those reasons but because it also has to deal with the Appalachian region and Athens county area. On this Wikipedia page I want to add to the history page and update the training section of the page. With that I want to add sections that will cover topics of Maintenance, Operations, Construction both recent and future planning’s. I will be referencing other General Aviation pages to use as an outline and guiding tool to update and improve the Gordon K Bush airport Wikipedia webpage.