Here is a snapshot of my edited marry girl cake article. Last edited : November 11, 2011
The marry girl cake article originally contains less than 100 words, and only a basic description on the cake is shown. After editing, it has been improved and wider category is covered. I have added meaning behind, history, types of cakes, creation, nutritional facts, health risks and culture. I think it is important to mention nutritional facts as what I am editing is food, thus a calories breakdown is needed to tell readers what kinds of nutrients are they going to absorb after eating that. Also, I think I should let readers knowing the health risks as I am planning to be a dietitian in the future, it is significant for me to be able to explain why is the food unhealthy and what disease are we going to get if having a high intake of it. And for other headings like meaning behind, history, creation and culture, I am adding those because marry girl cake is a traditional food. It is necessary to tell readers where is it coming from and how is it produced. On the other hand, I have highlighted some terms like diabetes, blood pressure and heart disease. I think not many people know what those kinds of disease are and thus they can press the word and it will bring them to the page of it, which is also linked to another wikipedia page. Furthermore, I have added moon cake, Chinese tradition and marriage into the heading of "see also". I think they are all related to marry girl cake and people can also read those articles if they are interested in knowing more about the cake.
I think editing an article is a lot harder than I predict. Finding information and assigning headings are not that hard, the most difficult part throughout the assignment is referencing and citing. The code on citing is complicated and I have tried many times to figure out how to cite a website source. Moreover, putting citation within sentences is another challenge part for me as it is my first time to write online article, I spend most of time on citing and it is absolutely confusing. However, after finishing to edit the article, I feel joyful as I have typed an useful article in wikipedia and it would help others to know more about Chinese culture, as well as reading what I have typed. On the other hand, I have found a blog typed by winnieandyj, and it is her day of 過大禮Gwo Dai Lai . I think she mentions every steps in this process and she has uploaded lots of pictures.She has also mentioned what she received in detail (in both English word and Chinese word), like what kinds of cakes she has received. After reading her blog, now I know that there would be suckling pig in the process of Gwo Dai Lai! That is an interesting fact to know. It is not common to find those Chinese food in Canada, thus Chinese culture is quite unique. I have also read one of my classmate's blog, Joyee . I choose to link to her blog as she is also editing Chinese traditional food! Her choice is "dragon's beard candy". I ate this candy before and it tasted like sugar, and with peanuts inside. However I do not like it very much as it is too sweet and the texture is too hairy. It is a traditional snack, as well as marry girl cake.
I have used google and yahoo and wikipedia to find most of my information. The citing part is the hardest part! In conclusion, I think this assignment is useful and fun. My first experience of editing article is successful and it makes me have a deeper understanding on Chinese culture!
Thanks for reading,
Stephanie
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