Talk:WikiJournal of Medicine/Parenting stress

Plagiarism check
✅ Report from WMF copyvios tool: 0% overlap with other sources, 100% unique. T.Shafee(Evo&#65120;Evo)talk 22:38, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Editor's preliminary conclusion
{{editor comment
 * name=Mark D Worthen
 * We should not accept this article for publication in its present form.

The anonymous reviewer's introductory sentence remains true: "The article, 'Parenting Stress' is a cursory overview of the impact of being a parent. Although this is an interesting topic and the model illustration is informative, overall, I found the content vague and superficial."

The article's prose quality is mediocre—at the level of an average college sophomore.

If the authors wish to improve the article, I suggest the following.

(1) I understand the author's intention to write a brief article. The word, brief, means "short in extent or length" or "concise". However, this article is cursory not concise. I urge the authors to strive for pithy prose.

(2) As noted above, the prose quality of the article needs work. See the writing resources, below.

(3) Precise writing (see the principle of least astonishment on Wikipedia) will solve the article's vagueness problem. The superficiality problem requires answers to fundamental questions such as "What is 'parenting stress'" and "What causes parenting stress?" in the article's beginning paragraphs. Convey the topic's complexity concisely, in understandable language. While you do not need to provide as much detail, I suggest reading the first two and a half pages in Parental Stress and Early Child Development for a good example.

Sincerely  - Mark D Worthen PsyD   (talk)  06:58, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

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Writing resources: Books
Garner, Bryan A. Garner's Modern English Usage. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Stein, Sol. Stein on Writing. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Strunk, William Jr., and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 1999.

Zinsser, William. On Writing Well. 7th ed., rev.. New York: Harper Collins, 2006.

Writing resources: Online writing labs
Purdue University. Purdue Online Writing Lab ("Purdue OWL"). https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Tips & Tools." The Writing Center. https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/

Writing resources: Wikipedia
Basic copyediting

Use clear, precise and accurate terms

Use of "refers to" and related phrases such as "relates to".

Writing resources: Dictionaries
 Dictionaries: Free online 

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Online. https://ahdictionary.com/. COMMENT: The best for pithy definitions.

Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/. COMMENT: Solid, reliable definitions.

Oxford Languages via Google. Search for the word or, if you do not see a definition right away, search for the word + "definition". COMMENT: Fast & reliable. Not as comprehensive as Merriam-Webster. Not as concise as American Heritage.

 Dictionaries: Subscription-based online 

Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online). https://www.oed.com/. COMMENT: The best for etymology; eloquent.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, ed. Philip B. Gove (Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam, 1961, 1993, periodically updated as Merriam-Webster Unabridged), https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/unabridged/. COMMENT: Exquisitely written and comprehensive.

 Dictionaries: Print books 

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 5th ed., rev. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. (Usually marketed as "50th Anniversary edition.")

Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. Edited by Philip B. Gove. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1961, rev. 1993.

 Dictionaries: General comment 

There are other good dictionaries. Find two or three you prefer by comparing definitions and related material over time.

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Editorial board member comments
One board member, Candace Moore, made the following comment: "The article could be improved by stating the methodology of finding articles on parenting stress (unless I missed it somewhere). Usually in a medical review of literature the methodology of finding articles is explained e.g. we reviewed results from xyz kinds of PubMed or other search and disincluded abc." Rwatson1955 (discuss • contribs) 08:20, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Editorial note
The editorial board have agreed that this should be accepted and I have added to the technical editor task sheetRwatson1955 (discuss • contribs) 10:11, 21 June 2022 (UTC)