User talk:Dlaitinen/sandbox

May 31-For the Cecilia article, I made a few changes to the first seciton to indicate that this is Burney's second novel and that she is an English author. I added information about why her father supressed The Witlings, a second image, links to bluestocking and Elizabeth Montagu and a section for critical reception, which needs to be written from the ground up. I also started editing the plot summary at the sentence level for the first four paragraphs. I added a detail: from "one of her guardians" to three guardians.

June 1-I added more info to the opening giving it a very brief plot overview and mention of genre. I started working on the new subheading that I added called critical reception about Burney's style and tone, a tad about publication history, the success of the work, and Shakespearean references etc.

Your revisions add to the content of the article and provide further links, such as "novel of manners," to guide readers through relevant context related to this page. Heatherafox (talk) 21:19, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

June 3-I added a subsection for "publishing history" and gave a brief overview of the novel's many successful editions. I went back and expanded the footnote references to include complete information. I did an edit of the summary section that included fixing grammatical errors such as: comma splices, commas between subject and verb, double subjects but one verb pertaining to only one of the subjects, shifts in tense, ambiguous sentences, awkward phrasing and colloquialisms such as changing a "little hurt" to "wounded." I kept most of the original languageDlaitinen (talk) 20:27, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This page looks like it's coming along really well, Dana. You've made some significant improvements. Perhaps link to the wikipedia pages of Shakespeare's work that you added near the bottom of the page. Cakolba (talk) 02:00, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I like your ideas, nicely organized and very detailed. The page is definitely in need of some TLC! The first couple of glaring oddities or issues for me are the introduction line and the lack of visuals. I am sure this page will be next to perfect in no time. Good luck! Smdaniels (talk) 18:45, 20 September 2015 (UTC) Smdaniels[reply]

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"The Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Singer Rowe" from Poems on Several Occasions. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/rowe/life.html

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Early Eighteenth-Century England." Eighteenth-Century Life 1 (2001): 29. Project MUSE. Web.

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Wright, H. Bunker. "Matthew Prior And Elizabeth Singer." Philological Quarterly 24.(1945): 71-82. MLA International Bibliography. Web. Dlaitinen (talk) 12:39, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]