User:Cgonz527/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: Environmental science
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate:
 * I decided to evaluate this article because even though it talks about environmental science in a broad spectrum, my Digital Campaign for IDH3035 focuses on sea pollution and what we can do to spread awareness to reduce this ongoing crisis. Choosing an article such as this one felt like it related to my digital campaign which allows me to get a better understanding of this issue.

Lead

 * Guiding questions

Yes, the Lead includes an introductory sentence that concisely describes the article's topic of environmental science and detailing its academic field of integrating multiple subjects into environmental science. The Lead does indeed include a description of its major sections by signaling all of the fields it covers and outlined by different sections. The Lead also includes information that is not present in the article. It talks briefly about other topics such as environmental studies but can take you to its article to be more specific on the material. I find the Lead to be concise and perfectly detailed.


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Content

 * Guiding questions

The article's content is definitely relevant to the topic. This article covers many aspects of the topic involving environmental science which leads me to conclude it is up to date and that nothing seems to be missing.


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions

After reviewing the article, I found it to be written in a neutral tone without any bias towards a particular position. The article represents all the different viewpoints and does not seem to attempt to persuade the reader towards any particular point of view.


 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions

All of the facts in the article appear to be backed up by multiple, and reliable, secondary sources of information. The sources are current, and all lead me to different tabs with more information which leads me to believe that all of these links still work.


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Organization

 * Guiding questions

I found the article to be very well written and easy to read as I did not find any grammatical or spelling errors. The article was arranged in a well-organized manner as well as it was broken down into specific sections where at certain topics it gave more weight to important viewpoints and less weight to any miscellaneous ideas.


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions

The article does a good job of including images to better help my understanding of the topic. The images are well captioned and give a better insight of the point they are trying to make for each heading or subheading within the article. Under the sources, it is clear that the images do adhere to Wikipedia’s copyright regulations. Yes, the images are laid out in a visually appealing way to draw more attention and help grab the reader’s understanding of each topic.


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions

Conversations such as how to continuously provide more up to date information for each section is definitely one that is constantly an ongoing topic. This article appears to be part of various WikiProjects.


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions

Overall, I found this article to be very effective in getting its point across. Examples such as going into more details about the different field of science such as atmospheric science, ecology, and environmental chemistry where they provided its principle areas of study and the different ways all of these fields could be impacted. While I may not find it extremely necessary, the article could possibly be improved if in each section while its explaining the ways they could all be affected, if maybe they could provide some details about how to reduce this problem and what plans are being made to assess it. Again overall, I found the article to be effective and complete as it was all around well-developed.


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Optional activity

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