User talk:Mbranscombe

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Your submission at Articles for creation
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Julia Davies
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My comments are here, since I don't know how to leave them in the review:

An encyclopedia article about a person needs to avoid being a list of things that she is known for. Since you have to show that a person is notable to get the article accepted, this is easy to forget. That said, a person's own papers and presentations don't make them notable as far as an encyclopedia is concerned.

Leave out things that sound like advertising because they are opinions. "Dr. Davies has had a varied and successful teaching career to date." is an opinion. Calling something a "prestigious online literacy platform for academics" is also an opinion unless you have a reference that says it is. "Sharing knowledge" sounds like a heading in a press release rather than an encyclopedia article.

Not every professor is a notable person. Write the article to show what makes her stand out from the usual professor with a lot of papers? She is co-director of The Centre for the Study of Literacies. (Leave out the @Sheffield, its informal and not part of the name). The centre opened in 2009. Was she part of developing it? She is co-editor of Literacy, a peer-reviewed journal. The journal is a publication of the UK Literacy Association. Is she is active in that organization in other ways? What about in the other organizations. What is her main area of research? It looks like "advocate for broadening the definition of literacy to incorporate the use of digital technologies in literacy education in England", but that is buried in a long run-on sentence. Make a section for her research. Remove the lists of publications and reviews. List just the book and a few key articles as needed to reference her work. We need to know about her research and its impact; its a very interesting area. She's been a keynote speaker at conferences; describe the conferences, don't just mention them. We don't need to know about international travel. We need to know the meaning of what she has done. Good luck. StarryGrandma (talk) 23:03, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

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Your article submission Julia Davies


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