User:2020tabracey/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Academic discipline

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because it seemed close with what I'm learning in this course about Information Literacy and Scholarly Discourse/ indisciplinary studies. Understanding academic disciplines is important for finding good information in school and college.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Yes, the start of the article clearly talks about academic disciplines being different areas of knowledge you learn about in college or university. The beginning also gives a quick idea about what the article talks about, like the history of academic disciplines and how they work. The first part of the article doesn't talk about anything that's not in the rest of the article.The first part is clear and doesn't have too many details.

Content:

The stuff in the article is all about academic disciplines, which is what the article is supposed to be about. I'm not sure if all the information is really up to date because it doesn't say when it was last updated.

Sources and References:

The facts in the article have other good sources to back them up. It looks like the sources have lots of information about academic disciplines. It's hard to say if the sources are all up to date because they don't say when they were written.

Organization and Writing Quality:

The article is written in a way that's easy to understand and doesn't have too many extra words. I didn't see any spelling mistakes or things like that. The article is divided into parts that make sense and match what it talks about.

Images and Media:

The article has pictures that help show what it's talking about.

Talk Page Discussion:

I didn't see much talking about the article on the talk page. The article doesn't say if it's part of any special projects on Wikipedia.

Overall Impressions: The article about academic disciplines is well put together and explains things in a way that's easy to understand. It covers all the important parts of the topic and has pictures to help. But it could be clearer about when it was last updated, and it could say more about where the information comes from.