User talk:Posner.c

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Welcome to Wikipedia C!Karmastaji (talk) 16:19, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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Hello, Posner.c, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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I think that you've made a lot of great edits to Gyrification, but there's a few things I noticed that you might want to keep in mind.

The first thing is the lack of citations in some parts of the article. I understand that you are are still working out the details and formatting, and citations may be last on the list, but you do have quite a bit of new information that definitely needs to have a source next to it. Of the old information, the sources that exist in the article seem to be fine.

For your new information, it might be a good idea to add in hyperlinks. The re-organized info seems to be fine with that, but yours should have it too.

"Context in brain development" Is this only for humans? The first sentence implies that. If it's the case, change the title/add "in humans".

I like that you broke the mechanism into three theories, but some of it confuses me.

"Theory of Axonal Tension" I don't understand why that first citation is there. It seems oddly placed. It is in the older article but maybe check why that it. The rest of the section seems to be your own work, but does not include citations.

"Differential..." "Preferred theory"--by who? How recent is recent?

The "cranial constraints" portion could use some rewording. Not sure if the first sentence is necessary, it just seems like extra information. If you include a history section possibly use it there.

There may be a better heading to use than "special cases"

Overall, awesome work. The article looks much better and seems to be coming together really well. Rhoffing (talk) 00:57, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Peer Review Response Letter
Thank you to Rhoffing and Iamthestudent for in-class and online comments on my Wikipedia piece. Their suggestions helped to make my article more user-friendly and appropriate for the Wikipedia style.

One of the biggest issues in my first attempt at the article was deciding what topics to explain fully, and what explanations could be deferred using hyperlinks to other Wikipedia articles. Rhoffing suggested the addition of hyperlinks, and I think that adding these to the genetics section in particular, helped the article read better.

Rhoffing also questioned the use of some subjective phrasing that may be appropriate for a literature review, but not for a Wikipedia article. Word choices like “preferred” seemed biased, and “recent” too contextual considering different times at which users may read this article. I decided to switch such phrases, replacing with choices like “heavily cited” (and then include citations for where it exactly is heavily cited), and by including date ranges for time-sensitive descriptions.

Iamthestudent suggested that instead of removing a section in the original article that discussed cortical neurogenesis, I keep it in the article, along with a description of how the cellular process relates to the mechanical process of gyrification. Because my knowledge of the topic was mostly limited to the mechanics behind gyrification, I think this suggestion helped my article to give a fuller picture of the process of gyrification, and where it fits into brain development.

Both peers gave suggestions for sections titles that better described the content that followed. Because of this, I switched "Context in brain development" to "Context in human brain development," and "Special cases" to "Variation across species." Some of these switches required the following content to be rearranged, but the new titles more accurately describe the points that I was trying to get across in these sections. Posner.c (talk) 21:38, 10 April 2016 (UTC)