User:Canmore123/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Environmental geology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose this article to gain further knowledge of the science of geology as I progress through my geology course at university. My initial impression of the article is that it is a brief informative article that gives an overview of the different aspects of environmental geology.

Evaluate the article
Lead

The lead of this article is clear and concise, it briefly touches on each sub topic that is to be discussed in the article without going into too much detail. However, the suggestion i would make tot he writer of this article would be to not refer to a topic explained in the article as if it would be prior knowledge to the reader. For example, in the lead the first sentence compares the topic, environmental geology, to hydrogeology which is a topic that is further explained in the first main paragraph of the article.

Content

In the article, each topic is linked with an explanation of how it relates to the overall topic of the article. The information is up to date as of December 27, 2021. all content fits well into the topic.

Tone and Balance

This article on environmental geology is unbiased and neutral in the presentation of the facts of the topic. The article follows scientifically proven facts on the environment and aspects of environmental geology. The article is informative and the writer is not trying to persuade the reader to a certain belief or promote a position.

Sources and References

The sources used in the formation of this article are mostly recent with the exception of a few of the sources being written in the late 1900s or early 2000s. The sources vary from online articles to books, all the links to online sources are functional. The sources display detailed explanations of the sub topics of the articles. The chosen sources give the author the ability to write a brief description of the arching topics of environmental geology, however, there are more aspects to the topic that could be discussed in more detail.

Organization and writing quality

The article is clear, and easy for the reader to read. The layout is organized into relevant sections of the main topic. Potentially unknown topics that are used in the article are briefly explained to the reader. The author includes effective lists to clearly demonstrate the information/ topics.

Images and Media

The author of the article only used one image to demonstrate the "land use" topic in the article. The image is well captioned, and helps strengthen the understanding of the section for the reader. All copyright regulations were followed in the posting of the image.

Talk Page Discussion

In the discussion page for this assignment there is conversation about the lack of information in the article and how the article should be expanded on to cover more of the main topic of environmental geology.

Overall Impressions

The information in this article is presented in a clear manner and provides a basic explanation of environment geology. The article can be improved by expanding on the topics already on the page and by adding new topics, there are more aspects for environmental geology that are not explained and would elevate the level of the article.