User:Adamsshort/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Digital Rhetoric: Digital rhetoric

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article deals with my research interest.

Evaluate the article

 * The start provides a good overview of this topic for the readers.
 * The article covers big topics of digital writing. It does exclude some of the more specifics when it comes to approaches like ethics. Concepts also seem to exclude this idea that Digital Rhetoric is this cross discipline study that pulls from new ideas, communication media, and traditional rhetoric concepts.
 * I definitely feel the tone is a bit to formal for the average person. Someone who isn't fully familiar with the idea of digital communication and the digital humanities might get lost with how the information is presented.
 * Sources seems to cover similar sources and doesn't include a lot from scholars like McKee and Porter.
 * The writing could you some editing but the organization looks solid for the stage that the article is at.
 * The talk seems great with points I'd like to look into editing myself.
 * This articles is a great start for someone interested in this topic as a scholar like myself but not for someone who is interested in it casually.

Feedback from Vetter
Hello - Great work on this article evaluation of Digital rhetoric. I think it's a good choice to work on for this assignment because of how closely connected it is to your professional/research interests as well as because of the obvious developmental needs it demonstrates. You have pointed out some of being accessible to the average reader, re-use and over-reliance on sources, and the problematic forwarding of a single set of concepts (which contradicts the "interdisciplinary" nature of the field).

These are great "inroads" for your editorial work. I would also recommend looking at the introduction of the book that I recommended, entitled Theorizing Digital Rhetoric, by Aaron Hess and Amber Davisson, as it provides a nice overview and would help with the over-reliance on Eyman. I believer it is available as an ebook through IUP library.

Just keep in mind that you don't need to take the article to any kind of "final version" - the assignment requirements are


 * Minimum of 4 references cited and added to Wikipedia article
 * Minimum of 300 words added to Wikipedia article

I'm excited to see what you will do with this article. Keep in mind that a draft of your edits is due on Oct. 4.

-DarthVetter (talk) 18:04, 26 September 2022 (UTC)