User talk:RonaldMPrior

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for expanding the Ralph Waldo Emerson article. I did detect a problem with close paraphrasing in one paragraph of your contribution. (I have bolded the identical phrasing. This paragraphis in the web page of a book review at the URL.

Curiously, it has been largely ignored by scholars. Emerson is the subject of more academic studies than you can count. His first book, Nature (1836), is among the most analyzed, anthologized, and cited works in American literature and contains one of the most quoted sentences of all his monumental corpus: “In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.” Yet a scholarly discussion of the one time in his long life that he came face to face with genuinely raw, uncultivated wilderness barely appears in thethousands of books and articles generated by his many biographers and critics.

This is the paragraph you contrubuted to the Emerson article. Curiously, it has been largely ignored by scholars. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most quoted sentence of all his monumental corpus was “In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets and villages”. This camping trip in the Adirondacks brought him face to face with genuinely raw, uncultivated wilderness. This event barely appears in the many books and articles about his life. Yet his epic poem “Adirondac[123] “ reads like a journal of his day to day detailed description of his adventures in the wilderness with his fellow members of the Saturday Club.

Wikipedia requires that copyright infringement be strictly avoided. Closely paraphrasing must be avoided. Your contributions here must be n your own words, avoiding identical phrasing and order of thoughts. The applicable en.wikipedia policy is at Copyright violations. The Perdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) at this URL offers help on copyright and plagiarism concerns.

It should be easy to bring the paragraph into compliance, but please check the other paragraphs also.

Again, welcome to wikipedia—satisfing volunteer work—but lots of rules. On the other hand, mistakes are easily and quickly rectified.
 * Neonorange (Phil 23:23, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback
Hi, thank you so much for the feedback. Yes that paragraph did bump up against the Wikipedia rules. I am about to re-submit with a new paragraph written in my own words. I did a check of the other paragraphs and I think I have properly "Cited" all of the correct sources.

Please let me know if the new paragraph is acceptable RonaldMPrior (talk) 23:46, 17 July 2018 (UTC)