User talk:Agard5

Topic
Puritan Agard5 (talk) 05:17, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Instructor Comments
All of these look promising, Agard5. Be aware that Romanticism is a term associated with British Literature, not American. Though you might expand on the section of that article that deals with the influence of Romanticism in America (i.e. through transcendentalism, that contribution alone might not satisfy the scope of this assignment. The same thing goes for 19th century in literature. You may want to focus on a specific element of 19th century American literature and expand it, but the broad topic of all 19th c. literature might be too big to grapple with for this project. If you choose to go with Puritan, keep in mind that you must contribute substantially to our understanding of American literature for this projects, and not just to history, so any contributions you make would have to be focused on Puritans in literature or Puritan writers, which could originate with the Puritan page. I'd be happy to help you narrow down these topics. Nadinecross78 (talk) 20:29, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

List of Contributions
Puritan Agard5 (talk) 20:09, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Anne Bradstreet is in the "Family Life" section of Puritans. By adding her in the section of Historiography would fit best because she was a Puritan writer.
 * John Winthrop and Anne Bradstreet's writings and more about them should help to elaborate on the American Literature in this era. Create this section on "Popular Culture".
 * There should probably be a new section on how the Puritans contributed to American Literature. This would most likely be added to the popular culture section.
 * Add facts and summary of the poems of Ann Bradstreet, and the writings of other Puritans.
 * Include the criticism of their writings.

Peer Feedback
Mengsun945 (talk) 20:18, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The user page of Agard5 has a good appearance.It is in the correct format.
 * She's trying to make some deep research to the topic of "Puritan".
 * Her topic is related to American literature and American history, it meets Wiki's notability guidelines.
 * I don't find out anything that has existed in the Wiki's page already.
 * Her topic is related to works in American literature.
 * Her topic and edit are good for doing further research.

Nice work!
Posted automatically via sandbox guided tour. Agard5 (talk) 23:59, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Summary
By adding a popular culture section to the Puritan Wikipedia page I will be able to add more about Anne Bradstreet and the criticism that was written about her poems. This criticism will also be noted how she was an important writer in history and was also a Puritan woman, it goes along with the page. I will be using an Early American Literature article that talks more about this. There is also another article called "The Influence of Anne Bradstreet's Innovative Errors" that goes into detail about Bradstreet being a feminist figure in American Literature.I also found an article that explains how John Winthrop has contributed to what America's government stands on today,love and Christianity. Today they use John Winthrop's "A Model Of Christianity" as a part of American Politics. So I will be stating how Winthrop contributed to the foundation of American politics with the article titled "Christian Love and the Foundation of American Politics".

--Agard5 (talk) 06:57, 31 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Agard5, I think working on Bradstreet and Winthrop will work well for you. However, the edits you are suggesting seem to belong more to the author pages for Bradstreet and Winthrop, rather than to the larger page for Puritan. I like the idea of adding a section to Puritan about notable Puritan writers and thinkers. However, Popular Culture sections generally refer to how an idea, work, or author has shown up in contemporary works. For example, if Anne Bradstreet was mentioned in a rock song, or John Winthrop was a character in a new movie, then that could be added to an In Popular Culture section to the author pages. If you headed the section "Puritan Authors" or "Prominent Puritan Figures," briefly explained who these figures are, and linked internally to each author's page, and then contributed the scholarship you've found to those pages, the edits you're proposing would stand a better chance of staying on Wikipedia. Also, you have received a deduction for not adding proposed edits to Article talk page, (as required by 10/31). Nadinecross78 (talk) 22:54, 1 November 2014 (UTC)