User:Allylynch1/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1 (THIS IS MY CHOSEN ARTICLE)

 * Focus Group
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article provides a solid definition of focus groups but it is very business-heavy. Only a few disciplines outside of business were mentioned, not including educational research. They mention types of focus groups but the list could be expanded. It mentions data analysis and certain exercises to use for the group but it's a very short list. The bones of the article are good, but it needs improvement and data from a more holistic view, not just within business, government and art.
 * Sources
 * Focus group
 * Business Research: Practical Guide: ISBN 9781137037480
 * Moderating Focus groups: ISBN 0-7619-2044-7

Option 2

 * Market Research
 * Article Evaluation
 * Overall, it's a robust, extensive article on market research. It provides the history, types of market research, methodology and relevant terms.
 * The article is relevant to it's topic. It does seem to be written neutrally. However, they were long quotes that could have been shortened. The cite had an alert showing a broom with this edit suggestion. Not much needs to be added to this article, just minor edits and paraphrasing quotations.
 * Sources
 * Marketing research
 * ISBN 0-9765574-0-1
 * ISBN 978-0-13-239002-6

Option 3

 * Ethnography
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is well written, explores the topic in-depth, and provides interesting pictures explaining the topic. It gives the definition and history of ethnography. It was also very helpful to see the suggested procedures of how to conduct ethnographic research as well as data collection and methodology. It also mentions ethics within the topic. There is an alert on this page that says it is written as more of a research paper that uses "overly technical terms and may not be written like an encyclopedia article". The history and challenges sections also has an alert that is asking for verification of the information and more citations.
 * Sources
 * Ethnography
 * ISBN 978-1-55111-871-0

Option 4
Qualitative Psychological Research


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is very useful in understanding qualitative research in the world of psychology and beyond. It mentions important research methodologies, and has it's own section of focus group information. It mentions data collection methodology and provides a well rounded section of analysis and different ways of approaching it. For the title of psychology in qualitative research, this article is very well-written and relevant to the topic. It covers all the major points within this topic and cites well. I appreciate the extensive section on focus groups (how to conduct, advantages/challenges) and believe it should be linked to the focus group page. This article does not need much editing at all and it was written neutrally.
 * Sources

Qualitative psychological research

https://web.stanford.edu/group/ncpi/unspecified/student_assess_toolkit/focusGroups.html

http://www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/T-Anth/Anth-05-0-000-000-2003-Web/Anth-05-1-001-066-2003-Abst-PDF/Anth-05-1-001-008-2003-Ogunbameru-O-A/Anth-05-1-001-008-2003- Ogunbameru-O-A-Text.pdf

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Discussion Group
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is fairly brief but to the point of it's topic. It gives a brief history which is indeed brief but may not need much more information than what is there already. There is a heavy online discussion group presence with mentions of Facebook groups, Google groups, and Whatsapp groups. It could definitely be expanded but the list would be really long to include all possible discussion groups both on and offline so I think keeping it brief is fine. Perhaps a focus more on offline discussion groups would be helpful. It was written fairly neutrally for it's topic, just a heavy focus on technology-driven discussion groups.
 * Sources
 * Discussion group