User talk:TSteck23/sandbox

Peer Review (Olivia Vogt)

1) Are all the parts there? It seems like most of the parts are here. The intro and background might benefit from being separated, though, if your info allows it. I understand that this scholar may not have a lot of info about her out there, though!

"Contributions" and "Scholarly Work" seem to be combined. Is there any way to write more about her scholarly work, such as topics or theories in articles or books? Talking about the subject matter is a good way to fill up space, show your smarts, and make the relevance of the scholar more obvious. I'd especially like a discussion of her textbooks, come to think of it. Are they standard comm textbooks, or more specialized? Any stats on how much they are used in academia by professors?

Consider a "Professional Life" or "Academic Life" section to talk about her time as an educator in the university system.

2) Is the opening "hook" strong? Is your hook the few lines above the black line in your article? If so, that is a promising start! Try to focus more on her work, theories, and ideas, and less on where she was born or where she's from. Since she is a scholar, make it front-and-center! She was president of the NCA; That's impressive! What about all her work with textbooks? She seems to be a driving force in modern communication education.

3) How's the style? (spelling, grammar, clear sentences, correct verb tense) Very clean and professional voice. No personal biases or opinions in here, reads like an informative article. Do you need to add in-text citations still? Good to do that while the writing is fresh.

Small APA thing: The volume number of a journal is italicized, while the issue and parenthesis around it remain standard format. Example: Women and Language, 13(2). The 13 is italicized along with the journal title, while the parenthesis and 2 are not.

4) Overall impression of the article.

Overall, a nice clean article. Hopefully there is more info out there to bulk it up, but if not, that is understandable, too! Good work so far. :)

Nice review, Olivia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aburnett412 (talk • contribs) 02:36, 26 April 2017 (UTC)