User talk:Rekarrr

Welcome[edit]

Greetings...

Hello, Rekarrr, and welcome to Wikipedia!

To get started, click on the green welcome.

I hope you like it here and decide to stay!

Happy editing! jbmurray (talk • contribs) 08:54, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Magical Realism Reconsidered[edit]

I'm looking forward to working with your class during the semester - if you have any questions about the project or Wikipedia in general, please feel free to leave me a note at User talk:Awadewit. Wikipedians are here to help you! Awadewit (talk) 19:38, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography assignment[edit]

Hi, here are the details of the MRR annotated bibliography assignment...

Good Wikipedia articles are built on a foundation of good sources. In this respect, Wikipedia articles are not much different from academic essays. In fact, if anything a good Wikipedia article is more reliant on good sources than are other academic or scholarly texts. The whole notion of verifiability, which is the first of the encyclopedia's five pillars, depends upon reliable sources.

The aim of this bibliography assignment, then, is to identify, read, and comment on the most important and reliable sources that relate to the topic of your chosen article.

In coordination with your group, you need to do the following:

Identify the most important sources for your topic. These will be both books and articles. They will vary depending upon the kind of topic you have chosen, but to give a couple of examples this book is a key one for the general topic of magic realism, while this biography would be essential for the article on Gabriel García Márquez.
Use databases and the Koerner library catalogue to identify these sources. Look for as many as possible in the first instance; you will later choose between them. On the whole, they will not be online sources (though of course many articles are now available online thanks to JSTOR and other services).
Aim to come up with a long list of, say, 5-20 books and perhaps 15-40 articles. Obviously, for some topics there will be more material than for others. So for some topics you will need to do more searching; for other topics, you will need to be more careful and discerning as you choose between sources. Look far and wide and be inventive in thinking about good sources.
In some cases, the article may already have a number of references, either in the article itself, or perhaps somewhere in its talkpage archives. You should take account of these, but you should still undertake your own search, not least to find new material that has not been considered before.
To figure out what you need, you will also have to look at your article and consider what it is missing, what needs to be improved, where it could do with better sources, etc. In other words, you will have to start planning how you are going to work on and rewrite the article.
Come up with a final short list of c. 2-4 books and perhaps 6-24 articles.
Put the long list (of all the sources you have found) as well as the short list (of the sources you have decided are the most important) on your article's talk page by Wednesday, January 20.
Distribute the sources among the members of your group. Each person should be reading the equivalent of one full book or six articles. Exceptionally long books may be divided up between group members.
Read the sources, bearing in mind the information that is going to be useful as you work on the article. Think about what it covers and take a note of particular page numbers.
Produce an annotated bibliography of the sources you have read. This will consist of a summary or précis of the most important aspects of the texts, which should be at least 150 words long for each article read; 600 words for each book. You should put this on your user page by Monday, February 8.

To coordinate with the other members of your group (whose names you can find here), use their talk pages. Each time that you log in to Wikipedia, you will notice that if you have a message waiting for you, there will be a yellow banner at the top of the page.

Good luck! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:10, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Encouragement[edit]

Rekarrr, just to say good job on getting going on the bibliography for Leyendas de Guatemala. (Yes, the book you got is obviously a key one, perhaps the most important on the topic, and between you it should definitely be read.) One word of advice is that you might want to drop notes on other people's talk pages: then they get the little yellow bar to remind them to check their messages. Again, good luck! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:09, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! So is it possible to divide the articles in the Morales book. I mean can you indicate clearly which articles you want, then I/we can choose what's left. That way I can put those articles in my list on the talkpage because so far I have nothing, except the exact same list as everyone else! lol--Liloljeffy (talk) 01:05, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: hi[edit]

(copied over from my talk page:) Heya. The assignment asks you to "put this on your user page." That would be here, which I see is exactly where you put it. Excellent! For what it's worth, and as I mentioned in class, the fancy way to do this would in fact to be to create a subpage. How to do that is detailed here. But that's slightly complex, and I don't want you guys to be bothered by such technicalities unless you want to be. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:11, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Take a look at our group's talk page about image copyright info that someone recently posted. Perhaps we should just concentrate on making a good written article for now? --Sezekiel (talk) 04:26, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yea no problem - edit away!:) --Liloljeffy (talk) 04:37, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The page looks so great--thanks for adding the photos! I am planning on giving it one more read through before it's due on Monday to make sure we haven't looked over any errors. I assumed that Jon was going to submit all of our pages once they're due so I don't think you have to submit it beforehand. I'm going to post this question on his talk page so we can get an answer soon! --96.49.143.181 (talk) 22:16, 17 April 2010 (UTC) oops that was me --Sezekiel (talk) 23:50, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

yo! well i'm not positive Jon does that, but it would make sense! Yes...i'm writing away at this essay and going a little crazy. I chose to write about El Reino, because I understand it and enjoy it. What I do not enjoy is how hard it's become for me to write in Spanish! argh. how's it going for you!? --Sezekiel (talk) 00:54, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]