Pumpkinpie21

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:39, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! I have some notes - the main one is that I'm concerned that the draft is too much of an essay and comes across as original research. This is an easy fix, however - most of this just needs to be attributed. Basically, you need to avoid making opinion statements and conclusions in Wikipedia's voice. Wikipedia's voice is when a sentence is written to declare something as a commonly held or absolute truth, such as "The sky is blue" or "Baby cats are called kittens". Most content, especially when it comes to literary criticism, needs to be attributed in some way, such as "According to This Person" or "Critics state..." and so on.

I've tweaked the first paragraph as an example, to show how this can be re-worked. You shouldn't have to really re-write anything, the main emphasis here is to make sure that you aren't writing this in Wikipedia's voice and to show that these claims aren't yours, they were made by the authors of the source material. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:59, 2 November 2018 (UTC)