User:Alicialuna3/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Cultural competence - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I completed my literature review on cultural competence for my international and intercultural communication class. I am currently working on my Capstone focusing on the traditional and contemporary mask making in Michoacan, Mexico and providing a website to the MAC museum regarding this artwork. I find cultural competence an important and relevant skill for me to have for creating this website as well as for other people to appreciate another cultures traditions, culture, and work.

Evaluate the article
One thing that could be improved from this article is being consistent in its language. It changes from cultural competence, to intercultural competence and cross-cultural competence throughout the text. Although they are all synonyms, being consistent in their language would provide less confusion for the reader.

Additionally, the Wikipedia page has a lot of psychological words listed, but only provides definitions for a handful of them. I would link the words that people are not generally familiar with a definition so it brings more clarity for the reader.

Additionally, I think cultural competence and ethnocentrism go hand-in-hand, and there are many recent studies show how one's cultural competence affects that persons level of ethnocentrism. I would include more of that research on the ethnocentrism paragraph and link the studies with the text.

I did find one problem with a link for "California Medical School." Instead of bringing me to one wiki page about that specific medical school. The link was divided into two different wiki pages. One for the state of California, and another for the term "Medical School." I don't believe that's what the author intended. However, it also might not be beneficial to link "California Media School" at all, and leave it as is.

I think in a sense, there was almost too much information on there for the reader. It starts off talking about Cultural Competence, but then moves on to quantitative and qualitative assessments of cultural competence, healthcare, masculine vs feminine traits and collectivistic vs. individualistic cultures. I think they all are relevant for cultural competence, but it might be better to add a link for those specific topics to be discussed in a different Wikipedia page, instead of tryin to sync them all together.

Overall, they had a good variety of sources and a myriad of different sources to back their writing.