User:Cakolman12/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)Women's colleges in the United States

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I was interested to learn about the female only opportunities in the United States. My podcast group's project also surrounds opportunities for women and girls in education, so I thought this would be an interesting expansion of that topic.

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.)

The lead in section isn't very detailed which contributed to me not knowing quite what to expect from the article.

The content in this article is very through and covers the history all the way through the present day information about women's colleges which I found fascinating. The one thing I did notice was that the history through the 21st century sections were full of information while the notable alumni section had one sentence with no real information despite information about that being promised in the lead section.

There is always going to be bias in an article no matter how hard the author tries to prevent it. In this case I think the author did a good job because the article was focused on facts about women's colleges rather than giving opinions about them. The only thing I could detect about the author was a passion for women's learning and how far it has come over the years.

There are numerous references that are mostly fairly recent. There were also a lot of other pages linked especially all of the colleges listed among other things. These links all checked out when I clicked on them.

I think the organization of this article is great. It clearly goes from information about the past through how they were changing over the years then finally to current day women's colleges.

There are multiple images of some of these colleges and they are all labeled well. The only thing is that they are all in one margin to the right of the page. I would say this isn't the most aesthetically pleasing and they seemed almost like an after thought. If they had been integrated into the article when the author was mentioning those colleges it could have served its purpose better.

Overall I thought this article had a lot of broad information and could be very useful as a starting point for research about the history and current status of women's colleges in the United States.