User talk:Theantiryan/sandbox

We'll be putting topics for our article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawl

as well as compiling sources, and we'll sign up for different topics to explore and write.

Additions to drawl
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Drawl Peer Review
After reading your article I agree with your topics to expand on. You provide a good explanation of what a drawl is, but maybe some examples would help for clarification. I also think expanding on the Australian English Drawl and the New Zealand Drawl would fill in some gaps of understanding. I saw there was a note for clarification on "cavalry drawl" I definitely agree with. Overall I think your article flows well and you have a good amount of references to get your information from. Good job!

Sheltonemma (talk) 23:23, 6 November 2018 (UTC)Emma Shelton

Drawl Peer Review
I saw that you guys actually had a lot done! Your team mentions the things that will be included and needed to be included. So, I think more examples from all of the specific drawls would be helpful. The lead I understand what a drawl is, but the (I am not sure what to call them.. the accents?) accents are hard to decipher for someone that doesn't know some or if any at all. I think giving more examples and maybe a guide? would be helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrudd92 (talk • contribs) 21:14, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Drawl Peer Review
The lead looks great! I like how you expanded the lead from the original article. The separation of the different examples of drawl (American, English, Australian etc) is helpful, too. Your sub-topics look interesting too, and would really make the entire article so much broader and comprehensive of “drawl”. Overall, it looks like you’re doing great things with this article. Alyssandra Bako (talk) 21:55, 7 November 2018 (UTC)Alyssandra Bako

Summary of Changes
The bulk of our peer reviews requested an expansion of current terms instead of any technical or definition changes. The things I noticed were a request for examples of these 'peculiarities' in drawl speak, and a recommendation to clarify some of the existing definitions like 'glide' and 'monopthongs, dipthongs, and tripthongs'. Since we're currently in the research portion of our project, there was little for me to do besides adding these clarifications to ensure that readers were able to follow along easily and with a good sense of the 'sound' being made when a drawl-speaker forms words. In the interest of making things more clear, I also reformatted the article itself, adding sections for everyone to expand on to meet with the suggestions of our peer reviewers. Rest assured, there are still many edits and expansions to come in the following weeks.Theantiryan (talk) 21:41, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

I tried to remedy the lack of content by adding a subtopic on the history of the word drawl and it's earliest addition to a recognized dictionary. Lihughes (talk) 22:32, 14 November 2018 (UTC)Lihughes

I also included additional sources and citations, tweaked a few definitions for specificity and a little bit of formatting. I ensured all citations were properly included in the source text, but in-text citations will still need to be further addressed going forward. Emphasized perception of a drawl for further clarification. (lmcgowan)

I had previously added subheadings for the different types of drawl, reworded the already existing section on southern drawl, and added some sources, but as someone mentioned more clarification on cavalry drawl is needed. However, I also wonder if this bit of information should be included in the article at all since it's not such a significant piece of information concerning drawl in its entirety. We also still need to expand on the new sections which is a research task that can be completed in the future. I also like the idea of clarifying certain terms, but again I wonder if this is something we should do in our article or if we should clarify terms simply by linking them to another article that deals with its definition explicitly. It seems like this is more along the lines of what other Wikipedia articles have done. (JacklynJ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JacklynJ (talk • contribs) 00:00, 15 November 2018 (UTC)