User talk:SAVega7

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Hey Selena. Its Hannah, from BI 301. I think your introduction is a great starting point, but I just have a few suggestions. Spell out Georgia instead of putting "University of Georgia, Athens, GA". As far as structure, it may be easier to organize your ideas on Mary Ann Moran is you make headings for her different categories, such as education/research, awards, career, stuff like that. Additionally its also helpful for other people on Wikipedia to have links to certain aspects of the article, such as, if you're including brief information about a huge topic, you can link that topic to its main wiki page and then readers of your page can learn more about this topic on their own time. Lastly, dont forget to cite your references. Wiki makes it really easy to do because you just put the url of the website into their cite tool and its automatically formats the in-text citation to your information within your article, but also cites it correctly under your references section. (User talk:Burbyhe) —Preceding undated comment added 16:41, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Instructor Comments
-Start off stating her title, department, and position. Mary Ann Moran is a distinguished research professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.

-Summarize the quotes you used here to create your first paragraph, which should be a brief summary of why she is a notable and important person...:: Mary Ann Moran is a distinguished, American research professor in the Department of Marine Sciences. According to Farooq Azam, a Professor of Marine Sciences at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, her work is “revolutionizing our understanding of microbial influence on the functioning of the earth system. The University of Georgia stated “Dr. Moran’s work illuminates the connections between some of the smallest units of living matter and concepts as big as global climate patterns and ocean ecosystem dynamics.”

-Put all the details of her education in your education section.

-You might list her one or two most prestigious awards in the first paragraph as well. For instance the fact that she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science is actually a big deal (I know that you wouldn't know that).

-Listing her academic positions is pretty boring and unnecessary. Her education is important though. You might state what topics she worked on for the masters and PhD, especially if any of her papers from that work are highly cited. Then in the section on Work and discoveries you can revisit the evolution of her work in more detail.

-Try to get the formatting down so it looks EXACTLY like other wikipedia pages. Having the headings in the correct format will automatically create a table of contents for your page, which is nice. Google for a tutorial and/or use the visual editor to make this work.

-Get the citations in the correct format using the citation tool in wikipedia. Google for a tutorial or see the link in the project outline for help.

-I think your two main sections should probably be "Work and discoveries" and "Honors and scientific leadership". Honors are one-time awards and fellowships, leadership is a leadership position in an organization or editorial board. She received the White Research and Mentoring Award from the American Society for Microbiology, there should be a write up somewhere online that describes why she received that award that could help you describe some of her contributions in leadership and mentoring.

-Have you found any interviews of her?

-You need to have a bibliography side box and hopefully a picture too. I am going to ask a librarian to come next Friday to help us with adding pictures. S L Seston (talk) 17:17, 21 October 2016 (UTC)