Talk:Comparative law and justice/El Salvador

Mid-Semester Comments

You have begun to make some good progress on your Wiki. However, there are a number of steps you can take to improve your work and ensure that you earn as many points as possible on your final grade.

• Be sure that you provide complete references for all of the claims you make in your Wiki--right now, quite a number do not have references. A URL is a good first step, but is not a complete reference; you may wish to visit the sociology term paper guide to learn how to write complete references. In Wiki citations, you should not use Ibid. In addition, you seem to be relying rather heavily on sources that are not on the recommended sources list. While these can be a useful complement to your research, they are often less reliable. For instance, people can edit Wikipedia just as easily as you are editing your own Wiki. Try to look for information on the recommended sources first and only look elsewhere if you can't find it.
• You may wish to work a bit on the formatting and writing style. It is certainly ok to write a Wiki in a somewhat more informal style than you would write a term paper, but you do want to try to write in complete sentences. If you want to use lists, such as where you have all the bold headings, you should put each item on a new line. You may want to consider using either a table or a bullet list, which you can find out more about in the Wiki help files.
• Your pictures are great, but would benefit from captions.
• Be sure that you keep on schedule for the rest of the semester with your updates. You can always go back and add more to the ones from earlier in the term. Also, spend some time looking over the grading rubric on the last two pages of the Wiki assignment handout so you can familiarize yourself with the final requirements--for instance, where the country's "rhetoric" about itself differs from reality, you might want to address this.

Keep up the good work! Mlarthur 01:26, 18 March 2010 (UTC)