User talk:Rsinthespace/Choose an Article

Thanks, Rhys, for identifying two possible articles that you could edit. Could you please hyperlink the article titles to the actual articles (as I've done here)?

These articles both seem like good choices to edit. However, the assignment calls for 3-5 article options, and these two were the article suggestions I gave you. I feel like you really need to do some grounding research on Hawai'ian music. Until you do that, you won't really know what terms to search for in Wikipedia that might lead to useful articles. One easy option, of course, is to start with these two articles that you've found and follow the hyperlinked words in the article. What can you learn from those?

I'm curious to know how you found your sources. I'm not sure how useful these will be, and they are not all scholarly either.


 * Prolegomena to a History of the Ukulele -- I cannot even find this source anywhere
 * Ukulele heaven: songs from the golden age of the ukulele: plus eight new songs for a new age -- this appears to be a book of sheet music which will be of limited use as a source of information about ukulele (and wouldn't be scholarly anyway)
 * Maccaferri History: The Guitars of Mario Maccaferri -- the ukulele isn't a guitar so I'm not sure what a book about a guitar-maker would have to say about the ukulele
 * https://www.kamehamehafestival.org/exhibitions-parent/ho-okuku-oli-chant-comprtition/ -- avoid using websites like this one; this one is a festival website and, as such, they probably just pulled information from other websites or from sources to which you should go directly
 * Healing Powers of Hul -- I can't find this source and I'm also suspicious that this might be a new-age book rather than a scholarly source
 * Hula 'Olapa and the "hula girl": Contemporary Hula Choreographies of the Concert Stage -- this IS a scholarly work (a PhD dissertation) but you're going to have difficulty accessing it; you will find it easier to access journal articles

I think there are many better sources that you could be using. I am wondering how much experience you've had searching for scholarly sources. I recommend that you come and see me or a CBU librarian to get help with how to do this. Your university experience will be much easier once you're able to develop strong research skills. CBFraoch (talk) 19:28, 12 October 2021 (UTC)