User:AnnieWang1/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

 * Article title: Transformational grammar
 * Article Evaluation
 * The beginning is fairly concise and the structure follows a structural explanation of this grammar type, the definition, how it develops, concepts it reaches, and so on. That part is comprehensive.  the introduction doesn't hit all of the content that it will describe. The content is mostly cited by the works in the 80s-90s, so it doesn't seem too up to date. I'm sure there could be more on the structural section of grammar. There are no images. The talk page has discussions of context-specifics and split-infinitives that could be added to the article. It is rated B-class in the Linguistics parts of WikiProjects. There is plenty on theories but almost nothing on the mathematical representation of this grammar.


 * Sources
 * The topic mostly leans toward Chomsky's texts, not very much citing other authors or influences. This may very well be because he could have coined the term (I'm not very well versed in the area, but there is a reference, in which, it states that he has explained this grammar type), or that he just has the most written, published texts on it. Nevertheless, there should be other, more current, notations. The content seems all relevant. Not all claims have a citation, but they mostly come from scholarly sources with the exception of one review-type source.

Option 2

 * Article title: Punctuation of English
 * Article Evaluation
 * The introduction is explanatory, but some word choices feel a bit skewed, like using "on the one hand." I don't like the structuring of the headings, as the distribution of research if not consistent throughout it. There is a lot of description on quotation marks, but near nothing on the other types of punctuation (i.e., question marks, exclamation marks, ellipses, ect.).
 * It is in start class and of low importance. The talk page has nothing.


 * Sources
 * The references, themselves, are mostly from published works, which is good, but there aren't enough of them. Many statements are not cited, especially when they are the only ones under a subheading.

Option 3

 * Article title: Sentence clause structure
 * Article Evaluation
 * The introduction tells almost nothing about the rest of the article. Some of the explanations on structuring a sentence is off, especially when they give several examples of sentences but put the explanation of them before the examples. That part lacks comprehension, especially when it goes right into the examples after the heading without defining each section first. It is start class on Wiki Projects Linguistics.


 * Sources
 * The citations are mostly held in the 2000s, which are fairly recent, but there are only 10 references. It seems like skewed information due to the lack of compounded references. Example sources are from Harry Potter, The Outsiders, and Don Quixote--this is odd that they only choose examples from popular literature, especially YA novels. A few sentences have no citations whatsoever.

Option 4

 * Article title: Clause
 * Article Evaluation
 * From the beginning, there seems to be a lot of information, but it's mostly explanatory ones like in the article above. The introduction is a bit difficult to read, meaning its over-complicating the definition of a clause, and it doesn't very well explain the topic thereafter. The sections and sub-sections are well-explained with plenty of information, but I feel that more could be said (I just don't know where). The section on wh-clauses seem random to me in this article with how long it is. C class Wiki project linguistics.


 * Sources
 * Straight off, there are only four references, making the information in the article - especially for its length - extremely skewed. They are all in the 2000s, so they are fairly recent. There are nearly no citations on the article, itself, as the content is mostly explanatory of the examples given.

Option 5

 * Article title: Traditional grammar
 * Article Evaluation
 * I believe the introduction is missing some references that are talked about in the article. It goes from history to parts of speech to syntax, which is a comprehensive order. The subheading on "accidence" should be renamed as "inflection," as the latter term is more well known in my opinion. Near the end, it brings up Chinese, French and Sorani Kurdash languages with little context to how it related to traditional grammar; there could be more where, as they are in bullet points and bolded. The talk page notes that the introduction being poor, or that Algeo - one of the source authors - talked about this grammar in terms of pedagogy, structuralism, ect. It is start class on Wiki Projects Linguistics.


 * Sources
 * There are references from the late 1800s to the early 2000s, which is very varied on the timeline of sources. Most of the 22 sources are from the late 1900s, so it isn't very up to date. It feels like skewed information if its mostly in the 90s. Not everything in the parts of speech section has citations; some parts have multiple sources, while others have none, which bothers me.