User:Asherm4802/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Addiction psychology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because addiction is a topic i am very interested in. I have family members and know many people who suffer from addiction and it is fascinating to me that our brains will tell us we need something even if it is killing us. My first impression of the article was that this article was very surface level. There were many topics that were touched on, but not discussed in detail.

Evaluate the article
I chose to evaluate an article on addiction psychology. This article seems to be a very basic overview of what addiction is rather than the psychology of addiction. The lead section is quite short and does not fully discuss the important topics that will be further explored in the article. There are good points made in the lead section, but they are not discussed further in the article. The lead section could use a little more information on what will be discussed in the rest of the article. The content of this article was decent but also very surface level. The article did a great job on discussing the history of cocaine usage within the psychology community, but did not discuss the history of addiction itself. There was no statistical evidence or even mention of rates of addiction throughout history. The content of this article also seemed to jump from topic to topic without a flow or transition. There seems to be more information on the history of psychologists who researched the topic of addiction rather than discussing addiction itself.There was also no mention of ethnicity, culture, or any other population statistics relating to the rate of addictions in each population. The tone of the article feels as if I am reading an argumentative essay on the negative effects of drugs and how to overcome addiction. There is a slight feeling of bias as well when reading this article. There are only two theories of addiction discussed in this essay, and one of the theories is discussed more than the other. The author of this article did a great job with citing facts and using numerous references. A few of the references used are not reliable sources, such as blogs or magazines but most of them are from reliable sources. I found many grammar errors and run on sentences, which made the article difficult to follow and hard to understand. I caught myself re-reading a paragraph multiple times trying to find the point being made. The article as a whole seemed very unorganized and scattered with topics. The talk page of this article lined up with my initial impression. Many other users were giving constructive criticism on how to fix the flow and tone of the article. The only ratings the article received were a C for being hard to understand and having grammatical errors. Overall I believe this article could be a great article if there was a little more organization and more information was added.