User talk:Mjl2994

Topics
Margaret Mitchell Phillip Roth Zitkala-Sa           Mjl2994 (talk) 14:08, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Thi is a great start, Mjl2994! Any of these topics will work. Consider, however,not just working on an author's page. To fulfill the requirement of this project, you will probably also want to add to articles about their works, as well as summarize criticism of their works. For Zitkala-Sa, for example, you could make a new article that discusses a particular collection of work (since it doesn't look like articles exist for her actual works), or make a redirect article discussing Sa as a writer, which would allow you to greatly expand the information already on Wikipedia about her literary career. The ultimate topic is up to you, though, and all of these are promising. Good luck! Nadinecross78 (talk) 18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Tentative Topics
I plan on adding on to Zitkala-Sa's work on American Indian Stories. There are 19 short stories on this page that are completely blank and I plan on adding to at least three of them in detail.

Mjl2994, I think this plan is fine, but it lacks detail. By this point, you should have a better idea of what stories you will add, and exactly what kind of information you will add to them. Simply adding plot details for a few stories (even though those are needed changes) won't fulfill the requirements of this assignment. You might also want to look at reception and critical analysis of that collection and add a whole new section on this. The "Analysis" section is a common feature of articles on works of literature, and it is missing here. Come talk to me about other ways we can make sure you are making a substantial contribution to Wikipedia for this project! One note on this assignment: the heading should be called "List of Contributions," and the section should include a bullet pointed list of contributions (not just two sentences!) Nadinecross78 (talk) 21:21, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Summary
The edits I will be working on are the works of Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories. I will be adding a summary to the short stories "The Coffee Making", "The Dead Man's Plum Bush", "The Ground Squirrel", "The Snow Episode", and "Iron Routine". There I will discuss what had happened in the stories without actually telling the whole story itself. I will also add an analysis section of the book of short stories and a section of literary critiques and reviews from over the years. Mjl2994 (talk) 01:58, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Sounds great, Mjl2994! I look forward to watching your progress. Nadinecross78 (talk) 22:19, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Annotated Bibliography
Cutter, Martha J. (1994). "Zitkala-Sa's Autobiographical Writings: The Problems Of A Canonical Search For Language And.." Melus 19.1 31.

I found this academic journal through EBSCOhost. It is a critique on Zitkala-Sa's writings and discusses why they should not be autobiographical. It is a peer reviewed journal therefore making it a scholarly source. This source will be helpful for my project because I will be adding a critique section on Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories page. It will give more insight to the short stories.

Hafen, P. Jane. (1997). "Zitkala Sa: Sentimentality And Sovereignty." Minnesota Press 12.2 31-41

I found this academic journal on EBSCOhost as well. It is also a literary critique of Zitkala-Sa's writings and discusses the contradictions of being recognized as both Native American and European-American. It is peer reviewed making it a scholarly source. The source will be helpful for my project by adding more to the critique section I will be adding to the American Indian Stories page.

Zitkala-Sa (1985). American Indian Stories. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press.

This is a book I found in the library's database. It is the book I will be writing summaries on for the American Indian Stories page. It is not a scholarly source because it was not peer reviewed. This source will be helpful because it has all the stories I need to read in order to write the summaries that are missing from the page.

Riva, Tracy (2010). "American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa". The Pigeon Post.

This is an article I found on the internet that gives an analysis of American Indian Stories. It is not a scholarly source because it is not peer reviewed. It will be helpful for my project because I will be adding an analysis section to my page and this source offers a good analysis to the stories. It is different from my other two sources because it is the only one that focuses on analyzing this particular story instead of all of Zitkala-Sa's work.

Mjl2994 (talk) 04:04, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Excellent work, Mjl2994! Nadinecross78 (talk) 23:57, 23 November 2015 (UTC)