User:Celeste320/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Miller's law

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this because it was in the communication studies category. My preliminary impression of what I thought Miller's Law was that it was Murphy's Law from the movie Interstellar. Miller's Law matters because it is basically the theory that says to not judge a book by its cover. I also chose this topic because I did not know anything about it before I read the article.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section:

The lead does include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic. The introductory statement identified the topic by saying it "could refer to three different principles." The first paragraph of this article does not exist. The lead section was just the introductory statement. There was no brief overview of what Miller's Law is. This section was not overly detailed, it just said that Miller's Law can be used in three different contexts which were then mentioned later on in the article.

Content:

The content in this article was relevant to the topic. It gave the three contexts that Miller's Law would be used in. The article seems up to date because the latest source was from 2018. I think there is a decent amount of content. Although there is not a lot of information on the page, I learned what Miller's Law is. It could be related to the equity gap because the overall message of the topic is to not judge and to try to learn from people without judging.

Tone and Balance:

The article about Miller's Law was neutral. I did not find any opinions in the article; only information about the topic.

Sources and References:

There were many current sources for this article. They were trusty sources. Some of the sources were from textbooks. The sources were mostly from 2015 and on. The links attached with the sources work to show the rest of the source.

Organization and writing quality:

The article was very easy to read and straight to the point. I did not catch any spelling or grammatical errors while reading it. I also thought it was split up in a very organized way. It was split into three sections by how there are three contexts that Miller's Law could be used in.

Images and Media:

The article did not include images that enhance the topic.

Talk page discussion:

The article was rated of low importance by WikiProject Psychology and WikiProject Computing. It was also a part of the WikiProject Cognitive Science, but that WIkiProject is currently inactive. The way Wikipedia discusses Miller's Law is not much different than how we would talk about it in class. However, Wiki just gave the facts and in class we hear out more perspectives on topics.

Overall impressions:

The article's strengths were the way it was organized and the tone. The way it was organized made it easy to read. The tone of the article made it easy to learn without any bias in the information. It could be improved by maybe adding more information like images with captions. The article was well-developed with the information that was in it even though it was short.