User:Asp.woods/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
 * Means of communication


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content of this article was very clear and relevant to the topic. Everything made sense but there was some information on cell phones and social media as a mean of communication that could be included and updated. There wasn't any notable equity gaps in the article or misrepresented historical information. The article did a great job covering the history of communication. The article was written in a very neutral tone and there were no striking biases anywhere in the article. The citations throughout the article all worked and represented the information from the sources well. The sources were diverse, adding to the reliability of the article nad supporting the claims made. Overall this article was very well written and informative on the different means of communication speaking in a neutral tone and having great citations.


 * Sources
 * Paul Jones (2000) Democratic Norms and Means of Communication: Public Sphere, Fourth Estate, Freedom of Communication, Critical Horizons, 1:2, 307-339, DOI: 10.1163/156851600750133397

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Peer support


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article was full of content. While all the content was relevant to the topic there was almost too much information and with over 100 citations from 100 different sources it was kind of hard to follow at times or remember what information came from what source. This made the article have distractions and took away from the reliability of the article. The information was pretty current and looking at the edit history it seems to have been updated fairly recently. With there being so much information it was hard to tell if there was any missing information. There was mention of equity gaps in the different categories for peer support in communication but none made by the writer. It was all informative and written in a very neutral tone free from biases as much as could be. There were many viewpoints represented throughout the article once again almost too many but most were helpful and gave value to the article. Overall the article was very informative but had too much going on making it hard to keep up with or follow at times.


 * Sources
 * Emma Watson (2019) The mechanisms underpinning peer support: a literature review, Journal of Mental Health, 28:6, 677-688, DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2017.1417559
 * Rebecca Maccabe & Tânia Dias Fonseca (2021) ‘Lightbulb’ moments in higher education: peer-to-peer support in engineering education, Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 29:4, 453-470, DOI: 10.1080/13611267.2021.1952393

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Frog pond effect


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content of this article was good. It was clear and concise but there was a need for a little more information regarding a few of the topics within the article. There were limited sources but the sources that were included were all valid and added credibility to the article. There were good real life examples throughout this article which was nice to see and relate to easier than just reading the information. All of the information was up to date but there was some biases present in the article. This was mainly in relational to the topics of race and the author should have done a better job of having a neutral tone throughout the article. Due to biases being present there was information that was over and under represented as a result. Overall this article needs to be gone through more thoroughly and needs information to be added and a neutral tone throughout the entire article not just in some places like it currently is.


 * Sources
 * Lixin Jiang, Tahira M. Probst & Wendi L. Benson (2014) Why me? The frog-pond effect, relative deprivation and individual outcomes in the face of budget cuts, Work & Stress, 28:4, 387-403, DOI: 10.1080/02678373.2014.965241

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Four-sides model


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article was short but very to the point. Each of the four sides of the model was gone over and that was about it. There wasn't a lot of addition information throughout the article and there were only two sources used throughout. This article was written in a neutral tone, free of biases, and did a good job of presenting the information without over or under representing anything. There weren't any notable equity gaps or historical moments missing from the writing. It was very cut and dry making it easy to read and understand but also making it very easy to assess for flaws and improvements. The limited sources that were used were both good reliable sources that added to the credibility of the article. Overall I thought it was a good article but could benefit from having a little more information and a few more sources.


 * Sources
 * Quinten S. Bernhold & Ronald Rice (2020) Toward an Integrated Model of Online Communication Attitudes, Communication Frequency, and Relational Closeness, Communication Studies, 71:1, 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2019.1683594
 * James A. Katt, James C. McCroskey, Stephen A. Sivo, Virginia P. Richmond & Kristin M. Valencic (2009) A Structural Equation Modeling Evaluation of the General Model of Instructional Communication, Communication Quarterly, 57:3, 239-258, DOI: 10.1080/01463370903107196