Wikipedia talk:United States Education Program/Courses/Theatre Script Analysis (Leigh Clemons)

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Bulleted lists

Hello, students. Just a tip: Wikipedia style prefers narrative paragraphs instead of bulleted lists. Try to describe the person's career in clear, narrative prose, basically chronological order, but broken up with appropriate headings. Examples of good bio articles are Harold Pinter and Noel Coward. Please see the links that I left on your user talk pages for more information about how to expand and improve articles. One great link is WP:Article development. All the best! Your Online Ambassador, -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:33, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Reception; analysis

Thanks for adding the content, students. Here are two comments that apply to these articles:

First, hardly any of the students cited newspaper and magazine reviews of the playwrights' works and productions. There should be a "critical reception" section in each of these articles using direct quotes and summaries of what the critics thought about these people. Also, there was hardly any discussion, in most of the articles, of which pieces were the most commercially and critically successful. Long lists of plays and other works are not very useful to an encyclopedia reader - they want to know which were the most successful or well-received works, and who said so.

Second, this is a class called "script analysis", but I hardly saw any discussion of the sources analyzing these playwrights' key works. Some people made vague (and mostly unreferenced) statements about "style", but what about a literary and critical analysis of the playwright's most important plays and their texts as the critics and other commentators saw them? There should be *much* more of this. Also, how does the playwright fit in with what was being done by other playwrights of the day? Some people said that the playwright was part of the Off-off-Broadway movement, but how so? Give reliable sources discussing this movement and the part that this playwright played in it. -- Ssilvers (talk) 08:15, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

On an even more basic level, much of the new information added is unreferenced. You need to specify where you found the information in every case where references that are missing in the article (look at your articles, where it says "citation needed"). Information that remains unreferenced must, unfortunately, be deleted. Please read these important policies carefully: WP:V and WP:OR. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:02, 28 November 2011 (UTC)