User:Animalphys/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Aquatic Biomonitoring

Link for the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_biomonitoring

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The reason I chose this article is because it was related to this course, easy to find and the topic seems to be interesting.

Evaluate the article

(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead

It briefly introduces and defines the topic aquatic biomonitoring; it is fairly short in length points out the main content covered in other sections. I think the audience can easily understand an as the definition and flow of sentence was well put together.

Content

The article is updated as the last edit is recent. The content covers all the main ideas that was touched in the rest of article. It covers methods and purpose of aquatic monitoring. I think all topic mentioned are related to the topic aquatic biomonitoring. It mentions topic such as pollution and the causes of it. I learned just few things by reading this article.

Tone and Balance

The article is bias towards the importance of aquatic biomonitoring, and how this method benefits different species living in water. Some facts stated in this article seem to be backed with pictures and events that occurred. Most of the links listed under work but there were some unavailable. I wasn’t able to find more supportive links to this topic, some links listed are informative enough.

Organization

This article is well written and easily understandable for majority of audiences. It is organised, ideas and facts are briefly stated with correct grammars.

Images

Images are presented supporting topic covered including captions. Images posted also include where they were captured and copyright detailed information links. This particular topic wasn’t taught in class but it’s highly related to this course.

Overall impression

In general, this article is short, informative and straight forward. I think the main strength of this article is images supporting topic which also draws audience attention to read more. on the other hand, it could use detailed elaboration in each content contained. Overall this article can be categorized as underdeveloped in its completeness.