Psychnut93

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Welcome, Psychnut93

Hi! I wanted to give you some feedback on your article pages. In the articles you list, I'm not sure how you plan to connect your editing project to youth. Could you clarify a bit? Could you please edit your user page so you have a list of potential articles, not a string of words? These two edits will make it easier for people to help you and understand your plans. Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 23:05, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Feedback

Hi, I really like the idea of doing something on the LGBT community around the world, to focus on youth you could do something with how attitudes and policies affect the youth in the particular country. (if there is enough information on it) Kjatczak (talk) 22:58, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Good edits to user page

Hi Psychnut93, you did some nice expansion on your interests. Can you add hyperlinks so we can go directly to the articles you're interested in from your user page? Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 21:09, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Feedback on proposal: Youth and disability

Hi Psychnut93 - I like your idea for a "Youth and disability" article. I would encourage you to start your literature review to see whether "Disabled youth" or "Youth and disability" is a more appropriate title. The five to seven sources was due on the 3rd. The sooner you have them done, the better you'll be able to work on the article draft.

The sections look promising. I encourage you to consult a literature review on disabled youth or the structure of the course textbook to determine the sections. The introduction is called the "lead section." The education, work, violence and poverty all look potentially rich. The homelessness section seems a bit tangential.

Please review what articles exist on disability to inform the sections. For example, the ways in which youth with disabilities are granted or denied rights could be important - Disability rights is an article. Please look at other articles and your literature review.

Finally, Please clean up your user page. Check out, for example, User:Cales23 for an example of a cleaned up page that is easy to read. Also, check out how she cites her articles in the “potential article” header.

Keep up the good work! Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 21:24, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Sandbox feedback

I would recommend adding a lead-in paragraph to help give the other sections of your article a context. Some things to include would be a definition of youth and certain kinds of issues they face. I also think that talking about differences between youth and adults and disability would be helpful. Another idea would be to talk about what the article is talking about when it's talking about 'disability'. This doesn't have to be super in-depth, but it will get a reader to start thinking about the plurality of the term.

I noticed in the crime section that the article takes more of an argumentative style than an encyclopedic style of writing. One way to think about encyclopedic writing is that it isn't trying to necessarily prove a point, but it's trying to just present the information that's available right now. Condensing information down to it's most basic form could help you maintain an encyclopedic writing style. Basically, the less words and the easier to understand, the better.

Can you find any research on youth with disabilities in other countries? The education section starts to talk about federal laws and disability rights only in the context of the US, which can be problematic for systemic bias. The disability rights section also talks a lot about the US and a little about the UK, but I suggest trying to find research from the global south, too.

AbbeyMaynard (talk) 04:03, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Peer Editing

-Is there any case studies or examples that you could write about to give it a more global south context?

-It has a lot good information, but maybe lacks some specifics?

- I think an interesting topic that could be added is the way that they are portrayed in the media? You don’t have to exactly research it, but set it up for further research.

-How about acceptance by society? How are youths with mental disabilities treated in other cultures?

-I really like the way that you set it up.

-Overall I think you have great, informational knowledge, keep it up! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaScott14 (talk • contribs) 20:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)