User:Bio Neuro Student/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Bruce effect

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The article I chose seemed to have a good overall concept with well thought out descriptions of the topic. At the same time the article needs some work in some key areas such as organization, tone and overall structure.

Evaluate the article
After reading the article about the Bruce Effect readers can clearly understand the general idea of this behavioral phenomenon, however, the text was severely lacking in detail and organization.

In the opening of the article the general statement was done well but the remainder of the introduction was very vague and did not give much insight on what the rest of the article will be covering. Also, the article focused on the Bruce effect in rats and in the opening paragraph the author mentions other species. The author then proceeds to not mention this throughout the rest of the article. This text could benefit with an extra section dedicated to research of these other species or removing the mention of the other species altogether.

In the Discovery section of the article the information being described seemed incomplete and difficult to understand. The experiments and procedures were very poorly described which made the other sections hard to follow and confusing. This part of the article could benefit from a section regarding the experiment itself being added which includes statistical evidence of the Bruce effect being prominent in certain populations of rodents.

In the third section of the article the tone is changed severely to a less descriptive and more technical type of text. The flow is lacking and the subtitles could use some more context for describing what the author is explaining. This section could definitely use more description in each of the mechanisms being covered as well.

There are no images to help strengthen the understanding of the article.

Similar to the issues mentioned above, the Talk Page has the beginning of a discussion about incorrect language used that does not make sense in the context of the topic.

All in all, the article the Bruce effect was a well researched article that touched on a behavioral rodent phenomenon. With this in mind the article was lacking in organization and consistency in tone as well as detail in multiple sections.