User:Abbimarie567/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Design studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because one of my majors is apparel, textiles, and design. In the future I hope to be a fashion designer so this information is very interesting to me.

Lead section
Although the lead is very short it tells me exactly what is going to be in the upcoming paragraphs. It very much concisely tells me what the main points of this essay on design studies is.

Content
I do not have super thorough background knowledge on design studies so I would not know for sure if there is content missing, but knowing Wikipedia I am sure there is missing information. In the ethics section you can tell there is missing information because they talk about the importance of ethics but not necessarily how it is applied. I would say that the research methods section is very detailed though and has a lot of information.

Tone and Balance
The tone in this article is fine to me, seems to be pretty neutral and not biased towards or against the design. Although I would say it would be hard to be biased in this topic. The only thing I think the author could have done to fix the tone is explain the terminology a little better, for instance assume not everyone reading has knowledge about design already.

Sources and References
For the size of this article they surprisingly have a lot of references. As I was looking through the different journals and articles they chose from it seems as though they have a good range of different references. Through the references they have male and female perspectives which is important when it comes to fashion as well as different ethnicities which is also very important.

Organization and writing quality
When it comes to the writing quality this article sounds like it is defiantly wrote by someone who understands what they are doing. The organization for this article is okay, although there is one section header with no information which messes with the organization.

Images and Media
There are no images in this article.

Talk page discussion
A lot if the talk pages are talking about there needs to be more citations inside of the article. The other main topic is how information heavy the article is.

Overall impressions
Overall I think this article has some important and interesting information to the design industry. The only thing I can say I did not like about the article is just how wordy and information heavy it is.