User talk:Maarao/sandbox

I thought this page was well organized and easy to understand. It was great that you included a lot of hyperlinks. I made a couple of stylistic changes just to keep things consistent (i.e., you often capitalize the first letter of a word that is hyperlinked – I don’t think that is necessary). There are just few other suggestions I’d like to make.

First, I think you need to embed your citations/references into your article. Some researchers you mentioned, like Collins and Loftus, aren’t on the reference list at the bottom so it’s unclear from where you got the information on their theories.

Second, when explaining the models, I think you could perhaps use some simple figures. There are already illustrations out there that depict the “spread activation model”. Also, in the “other models” section, you listed a group of models that are important for studying semantic priming but you don’t describe them in more details at all. It may be helpful if you at least talked about why they are significant.

Overall, I enjoyed this page and definitely learnt something from it!

-	Priscilla Ho-Tai

I really liked how you structured your paper. It is really easy to follow and even though the language can get a bit technical in some of the sections, it is still easy to understand what you are trying to convey. As the previous person commented, I made just one or two changes in a couple of words that you capitalized. I especially liked the "see also" section of your paper, as it gives reader the opportunity to look into things they are interested in instead of reading through paragraphs to find what they are looking. There are just a couple of suggestions I'd like to make:

First, you explained a couple of models, and at times it was hard to understand how the models work. I am a very visual person and I feel like an image would have been really helpful when trying to understand how the different models work. You might not need to add an image for all the models, but I would recommend you add a figure for the "spread activation model," since this is the most popular one. Second, I think you use great hyperlinks, but I would have added a couple in more places. Especially when you are talking about the models. Most of the models that you mentioned have a Wikipedia page already, and I think you should include the hyperlink to those pages as you explain the models. I especially liked your section on semantic priming and illnesses, but I would highly recommend using a hyperlink for the word "neurodegenrative disease" since many people might not be too familiar to what those diseases entail. One last point I would like to make in regards to hyperlinks, is that you should try and hyperlink all the researchers that you mention throughout the paper (if they have a wikipeida page) since readers might be interested in learning more about their work. One last thing I want to suggest is that you embed your citations into your article. The previous person made this comment, and I think it is something that would improve the overall article.

Nonetheless, I really enjoyed reading your paper, and I learned a few things that other courses had never taught me, so great work :)

-Laura Garcia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laurav.garciad (talk • contribs) 23:29, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Pricilia, Thanks for the indepth review. I am going to include a few citations in text. Thanks also for your changes. Thank you also for pointing out the mistake on my reference list. Totally skipped my mind. About the models, The spread activation model is the only one with a wikipedia page. I included a hyperlink so that readers can be directed to that page and on that page also, there are a few diagrams that explain better. I also did not explain the other models hence the reason why they are under "other". This is because,I cannot explain all the models involved in semantic priming so explained the most important and commonly used ones. Thanks again, Best regards, Amara.

Hi Laura, Thanks also for taking your time and reviewing my article. I am glad you learned something from it. Like I said above. I didn't include a picture for the spread activation model because I put a hyperlink that directs you to the wikipedia page for it which includes a diagram. I would hyperlink the models but they do not have wikipedia pages like you mentioned. I searched but they do not have that. If you actually did find, can you send me the link? Thanks for pointing out about the researchers. I have added hyperlinks to the ones with wikipedia pages. Best Regards, Amara — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maarao (talk • contribs) 12:56, 10 April 2013 (UTC)