Cales23

Hi! Your article on Orphans in Russia looks very interesting.

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Hi Cales23! I got a chance to look at the work you did over the past week. I have a few ideas of where to go next.

You received a notice that your reference had a page number error. Could you please check that out on the page you edited and correct it.

I think the adoption issue is potentially productive. The article you choose will depend in part on the scholarly material you're able to find. I also hope you will think about how to connect your project with the topic of youth. Maybe some work on how transnational adoptees handle identity issues as youth? For example, this article is flagged as outdated

International adoption of South Korean children. The article on international adoption could use an entire section on transnational adoptee youth identity and adaptation. What do you think?

I checked your article edit and made a small change. Thanks for your work! Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 03:23, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Great research topic!

I have always been interested in Russia, particularly the large amount of orphan children there. I did a check and found something that might help. Orphans in limbo Hope that helps!

Zombiesatemyneighbors (talk) 19:21, 12 September 2014 (UTC)--

Howdy

Hey Cales23! I'm very intrigued by the idea of studying transnational adoption - can't wait to hear more about it! Macmaclee (talk) 20:52, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Proposal Feedback

I think you may need to narrow your focus on edits in this article. It seems like you have a lot of big goals and it could be potentially be easy to lose focus with if you want to generally improve the article. What kind of ‘big picture’ questions are you trying to answer? How can you center them on the task of the class—specifically relating to youth, global perspective, and systemic bias?

I am most interested in your contributions that are related to adoption. I think they are also the issues that seem most pertinent to the goals of the class. How does adoption fit in? Looking at the subheadings for the page, I’m not sure if adoption should get it’s own category because I think it would be a jarring transition between the broad topics that are presented in the current subheadings like education, language, and culture. I would consider adding a new section with a broad subject heading like ‘national identity’ and then use that as a way to talk about adoption? Some of the ‘big questions’ I see national identity being able to answer are: how to people identify/not identify with their country of origin? What issues does multi-culturalism and citizenship pose to national identity? In what ways does geography have to do with identity?

Another thing I wanted to point out is that this is not an article explicitly centered on youth, like many of your classmates’ articles. This isn’t a problem in my opinion, but it’s something to be aware of that you include the cultural identity of youth without transforming the article into only being about youth.

Best of luck! AbbeyMaynard (talk) 20:56, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Cales23, congratulations on getting your proposal and sources posted to WP. The sources look very solid and potentially rich for the work you want to do.

I echo Abbey's concerns: your proposal is too broad at this point and the article you wish to edit will need special care since it's not about youth. I would talk with Maura, who is working on a general article about PTSD for ideas.

Let's meet and talk to plan for the most successful project possible. I think your sources will be useful; you just need a good place to situate the information you plan to incorporate.

Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 20:58, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

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