Talk:Julie Anne Peters

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Need Footnote[edit]

Under the heading "Personal Life", in the second paragraph, a footnote is missing, and should be included. Anbellofe 00:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. — Emiellaiendiay 19:48, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of books[edit]

I'm wondering why "Bibliography" was changed to "Novels." — Emiellaiendiay 22:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

i love your book define normal. and i cant wait to read more of your books. But the real reason im writing this is because i have this assignment that is due in 2 days(monday) its 14 short questions and i havent found an answer to any.so i was hopeing that you could answer some. I think my teacher would be impressed if i get some info first hand.Besides it'll be a little easier for me.please help me.Also reading your book inspired me to change my life around a little,and i think it helped a lot of oher people also. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.180.204.9 (talk) 23:58, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions for Improving Article[edit]

Lead

Summarize what is coming in the article. Right now, the lead does not provide enough information for readers.
Try to add a photo of the author.

Personal Life

Perhaps the Personal Life sections could be renamed to "Life". Personal Life sounds too personal.
The Personal Life section needs verification. As it stands now, the citations are from the author's website and "personal correspondence". Some information, like the author's degrees, are not backed by references.
The Personal Life section needs to be expanded. Perhaps you could include information about her, childhood, family and family life (both past and present).

Writing

Add a sections about her writing.
The Writing sections could include sub-headers like, genre and themes.
Perhaps something can be found about her views on the subjects she writes about.EmWriter90 (talk) 16:43, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Planned Revisions[edit]

Lead

General summary of what's in the article. Rewrite some of the general information, but most of it is going to be taken out
Continue looking for a photo, possibly ask for one

Personal Life

Change the title
Name the colleges she went to
Talk about her early life; how she got into writing
Mention, in a more direct way, why she writes for the GLBT community and her views on the issues
Mention that her writing focuses on controversial issues, such as transgenderism and bullying
Add her present status, what she's currently working on

Books and Writing

Take out the list/column format
Add subgenres like theme and genre
Speak about some of her more famous/well-known novels

Additonal resources needed, more categories needed. This is the basic outline, will revise as I find more resources.

Dreams-in-Shadows (talk) 03:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds like an excellent plan! I look forward to reading your improvements! Wadewitz (talk) 18:08, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback You've definitely got a good plan here: as you point out, this article does not discuss the themes that Peters discusses in her work--what does she talk about? Does she have a distinct style or tone that reviewers have found? It appears that she initially wrote for a younger audience and then started directing her work toward adolescents: why? How did she go from being in a business or technical field to a creative one (I'm personally interested in that)? These larger questions should be answered in addition to simple and straight-forward ones like which college did she attend? What was her first publication (apparently it was in 1994)? etc. For what it's worth, Flickr has pictures of her, but they are copyrighted. If you want, you could e-mail those Flickr users to see if they will re-license the photos... —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:25, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions for Improvement![edit]

Many of the sources were taken from GALE, a Literary Resource Center, and when you click on the links, they take you to a time out page, not the article. You are directed to access the site, but it doesn’t take you to the article either, which has now been lost. I don’t know what this means, if it rules out the sources because they are inaccessible or not, but they are legitimate having been collected together by a respected and established educational resource. The links might just need to be fixed. There is one source that is marked red with a large "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}"] which means something went wrong in the editing and adding references and was not reviewed before being submitted. This needs to be looked at because it ruins the integrity of the piece of information. The rest of the sources are authentic and reliable, like her own site and the article published by The Horn Book Magazine. In the Julie Anne Peters article, there were a few grammatical edits needed. In the first introductory paragraph, Peters does not need to be repeated 3 times. Using “she” instead at times when appropriate should be understandable. I would rename the section “Summary of Works” to something else, seeing as not every one of her books is detailed and summarized, only Luna, which has its own Wiki page somewhere. I would maybe take her three biggest stories, or summarize the themes of her children’s books vs. the adolescent books. “Revelation” is also spelled wrong in this section. Katierenee88 (talk) 13:30, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

These are good suggestions (the links will only work if you have access to the database from the computer you are on). Also, make sure that all of your paragraphs are full paragraphs and not single sentences. Wadewitz (talk) 14:02, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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