Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2020/Writer's block

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This has useful studies on how to overcome writer block through physical activity. This can help expand your chapter, good luck! https://info.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/pdf/perspec/2012-winter-spring/2012-winter-spring-3.pdf --U3166965 (discusscontribs) 23:15, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey. It looks like you're on track and ready to smash this chapter out. I think it would be really interesting to add some physiological mechanisms involved with Writer's block too. Here is an article I found about it :) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1038/icb.2017.67 good luck completing the rest of your chapter!

--u3189981 (discusscontribs) 05:55, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there! You have done a great job of laying out what you are going to discuss for writer's block! I just thought that it may be interesting to discuss how famous authors regard their writers block and how they might overcome it! This might give some insight into genuine cases of writer's block and show that it happens to even the most famous writers :) --U3190016 (discusscontribs) 13:17, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, this may be a helpful link A writer's secrets to catching creative ideas --Laurenpeel (discusscontribs) 03:52, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]


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Title and sub-title[edit source]

  1. Excellent

User page[edit source]

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  3. Add link to book chapter

Social contribution[edit source]

  1. Excellent - summarised with direct link(s) to evidence.

Section headings[edit source]

  1. Avoid having sections with 1 sub-heading - use 0 or 2+ sub-headings.
  2. Excellent

Key points[edit source]

  1. Overview - Consider adding:
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  2. Key points are well developed for each section, with relevant citations.
  3. Includes theory and research.
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Image[edit source]

  1. Excellent
  2. Cite each figure at least once in the main text.

References[edit source]

  1. Very good
  2. For APA referencing style, check and correct:
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Resources[edit source]

  1. Very good
  2. See also
    1. Use bullet-points
  3. External links
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-- Jtneill - Talk - c 11:55, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]


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  1. Overall, this is an excellent chapter that successfully uses psychological theory and research to help address a practical, real-world phenomenon or problem.
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Theory[edit source]

  1. Relevant theories are well selected, described, integrated, and explained.

Research[edit source]

  1. Relevant research is well reviewed and discussed in relation to theory.

Written expression[edit source]

  1. Written expression
    1. Overall, the quality of written expression is very good.
    2. The chapter benefited from a well developed Overview and Conclusion, with clear focus question(s) and take-home messages.
  2. Layout
    1. The chapter is well structured, with major sections using sub-sections.
  3. Learning features
    1. Use bullet-points per Tutorial 1, especially for the See also and External links sections.
    2. Excellent use of embedded in-text interwiki links to Wikipedia articles. Adding interwiki links for the first mention of key words and technical concepts would make the text more interactive.
    3. Basic use of embedded in-text links to related book chapters. Embedding more in-text links to related book chapters helps to integrate this chapter into the broader book project.
    4. Good use of image(s). Make Figure 1 larger, so that it is easier to read.
    5. No use of table(s).
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  4. Grammar
    1. Use serial commas[1] - it is part of APA style and generally recommended by grammaticists.
  5. APA style
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      1. If there are three or more authors, cite the first author followed by et al., then year (e.g., Smith et al., 2020)
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    2. References use correct APA style.

Social contribution[edit source]

  1. ~16 logged, useful, social contributions with direct links to evidence

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 12:50, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Overall[edit source]

  1. Overall, this is an excellent presentation.

Structure and content[edit source]

  1. An appropriate amount of content is presented - not too much or too little.
  2. The presentation is well structured.
  3. The presentation makes excellent use of theory.
  4. The presentation makes very good use of research.
  5. The presentation makes excellent use of one or more examples or case studies or practical advice.
  6. A Conclusion slide is presented with a take-home message(s).

Communication[edit source]

  1. The presentation is interesting to watch and listen to.
  2. The presentation makes effective use of animated slides with narrated audio.
  3. Well paced. Excellent pauses between sentences. This helps the viewer to cognitively digest the information that has just been presented before moving on to the next point.
  4. Excellent intonation to enhance listener interest and engagement.
  5. The font size is sufficiently large to make it easy to read.
  6. The visual communication is effectively supplemented by images.

Production quality[edit source]

  1. The video is very well produced.
  2. The chapter title and sub-title are used in both the name of presentation and on the opening slide - this helps to clearly convey the purpose of the presentation.
  3. Audio recording quality was excellent.
  4. Visual display quality was excellent.
  5. Image sources and their copyright status are not provided.
  6. A copyright license for the presentation is provided in the video description but not in the meta-data.
  7. A link to the book chapter is provided.
  8. A link to the book chapter is provided but it goes to a specific section rather than the top of the chapter.
  9. A brief written description of the presentation is provided. Consider expanding.

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:25, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]