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I have chosen the article The Apes of God for my article evaluation.

The article I have chosen is about the book The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis from the 1930s.

This article although short does have some improvements that could be made to it to allow it to become a more informative article to its readers. There are two primary issues with this article that discredit it. One being that the article is written in a personal view rather than a neutral view and that the article only has one source.

The article The Apes of God is written in the personal view allowing the audience to read and perceive the article how the author is feeling. When doing articles a writer needs to be neutral and not bias. Allowing this non bias will let the readers to make their own assumptions on a paper as well as their own feelings toward the novel itself.

The point of this article was to become a summary of the book to allow future readers to be able to have interest in the novel. When the author writes in a personal standpoint it curves the way another thinks and pushes the audience to view it in a specific way.

Another issue with this article is that there is only one reference mentioned. To be a credible article there must be multiple sources used and cited within the article to allow verification and show that a community of research has been done on a specific topic. When there is very few sources how can one expect an article to be accurate among multiple audiences. The more references that are used and cited that state the same information allows for higher credibility to the writer on a specific subject.

The writer of the article does mention another novel that was written by Wyndham Lewis and quotes the novel, but does not cite the novel. This in itself could be counted as plagiarism and should be cited as another reference for the article.

Additionally, something that could have been beneficial to the article would have been to add a background section on the setting of the book of Britain in the 1930's and what a setting and community might be like at that time. One cannot assume that anyone who clicks on an article for pure interest would know every detail of a specific time period and what it would be like. Some information that would have been nice for the reader to know would be some of the local history, culture, society, and the normal day to day life of individuals during this time period. This would provide more references for the writer to allow for more credibility and for the audience to get a better sense of the background.

Another nice addition could be to add a section on the author himself. In most articles on a novel there is typically a section giving information on the author. The author of this article could have easily added in links like done previously to the wikipedia page that is about the author. This could have also been a good opportunity to add more references to provide information on Lewis, since he is also mentioned later on in the article as well. There is also information on Wyndham Lewis by visiting the information page of the Wyndham Lewis society which publishes several articles about in the Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies which is a published and credible journal.