User talk:Mike Tem

Topics
Transcendentalism (Mike Tem (talk) 23:47, 25 September 2015 (UTC))

Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Realism (Mike Tem (talk) 23:47, 25 September 2015 (UTC))

Puritans and Quakers (Mike Tem (talk) 23:47, 25 September 2015 (UTC))

Mike Tem, You've got a good start here, but keep in mind that you should have selected 3 possible topics, not 5. Also, in the future you only need to add one time stamp and signature anytime you add anything to your page or to an article talk page. The point is to give your work a time stamp. Now, on to your topics. Some of these topics are either too removed from literature, or aren't related in particular to American literature. For example, if you want to write about literary realism, you would want to edit the page literary realism, not realism. The other topics here are broadly historical, although there might be a section on them to discuss literature. Romanticism and Transcendentalism and The Enlightenment are not just literary moments, although they have effects on literature, and Romanticism isn't really an American phenomenon. Now you may want to choose one a writer or work associated with one of these movements and work on the article for that writer an article for the literary arm of that movement, or a work associated with that movement. Any of those will work. Keep working to focus your topic and keep it relevant to this class! Nadinecross78 (talk) 18:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

While looking into literary realism, I found myself at Uncle Tom's Cabin and its author Harriet Beecher Stowe. I've decided to make some minor plot corrections to Uncle Tom's and to fill in the many blanks in Stowe's biography. Mike Tem (talk) 01:13, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

List of Contributions
on Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin


 * Stowe's article feels quite short for someone who's work was so influential at the time. There is a call to add more detail to her biography which is lacking. I will be researching outside sources that can add to and make any corrections in Stowe's article.


 * For Uncle Tom's Cabin someone has pointed out a minor plot error regarding a particular conflict between characters. I will seek out the book and find the correct information that needs to be there.

Mike Tem (talk) 11:18, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Mike Tem, Both of the edits you suggest will be fine. However, together they are't really enough to satisfy the breadth of this assignment. I recommend you look further into additions to either or both of these articles. Stowe's article doesn't contain a complete list of her works, for example -- you could remedy that. Some secondary research on the novel may give you more to add to the Themes, Characters, or "reactions to the Novel" sections of Uncle Tom's Cabin, for example. In general, the organization of the article on the novel is a bit unusual; take a look at some other articles for novels and see if you can make this one more consistent with those. I also suggest you take a look at some of the analysis on the novel, and make sure it hasn't simply been cut and pasted from a study guide website. If so, you can reword and rephrase some of it. You might also go over both articles with a fine-toothed comb: check that all claims are backed up with sources, and that all links work. Nadinecross78 (talk) 21:15, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Summary
The article for Harriet Beecher Stowe is not complete and lacks some details in biography that are worth mentioning. I will be making edits to remedy this. Among those edits, I will include the fact that Stowe's father, Lyman Beecher was specifically a Calvinist preacher. This is mentioned in his own article but not this one. I will also include the official name of the seminary that her sister Catherine ran, the Hartford Female Seminary; Stowe moved to Hartford, Connecticut to attend in 1824.

Stowe's list of works are also incomplete. Amongst the works left out include "Queer Little Folks" published in 1897, and "The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe" published in 1889. The list also fails to include her short stories and I intend to look into this as well. Mike Tem (talk) 05:39, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Someone has pointed out that the article for Uncle Tom's Cabin contains a minor plot error regarding a particular conflict between characters in Chapter 17. They have already described the changes that need to be made, though I intend to look into the novel to seek out the correct answers myself and make the necessary changes. Another individual speculates rather or not the theme of temperance can be identified in the story. I will look through the novel to see if this holds any weight.Mike Tem (talk) 06:01, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

MikeTem, I notices that another editor has prosed your proposed edits on Harriet Beecher Stowe. Great! Looking over these proposed edits, I see some improvement, but am still concerned that this project isn't quite substantial enough to meet requirements yet. I stand by some of my previous suggestions to help you expand this project; you can also do more in-depth reading of the article Talk pages for more possibilities, or come speak to me about what we can do to make sure you are doing enough here! Nadinecross78 (talk) 19:50, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Annotated Bibliography
"HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811 – 1896)." HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811 – 1896). Web. 16 Nov. 2015.

This site is a biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s life. What I will be using it for is to fill in any blanks worth making note of.

"Harriet Beecher Stowe." - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss. Web. 16 Nov. 2015.

This is also a biography of Stowe. However, this one mentions the specific name of her sister’s school she attended, the Wikipedia page fails to make note of this. I will also be using this site to make additions to Stowe’s list of works, short stories included.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Beecher

This is the Wikipedia article for Stowe’s father. I’ll be using this to alongside the previous biographies to add a little more detail on who this man was.

http://publicliterature.org/pdf/203.pdf

This a Project Gutenberg PDF of Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. I’ll be using this to help me make plot corrections to the Wikipedia article. The correction was addressed as needing to come from chapter seventeen. I’ll also be examining the novel overall to see if the theme of temperance is present or not.

Mike Tem (talk) 06:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

MikeTem, these sources may work for you, but none of them are scholarly. This will need to be remedied before you continue your edits! Please see me if you need assistance finding scholarly sources. Also, none of these entries contain the 4 pieces of information required for this assignment. The biggest problem here, however, is that your bibliography was uploaded on the 16th, a full 5 days late. This means you will not receive credit for this assignment, in keeping with the late policy in your syllabus. Nadinecross78 (talk) 23:55, 23 November 2015 (UTC)