User:ChujieQiu0614/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Bernardo Vega (writer)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chose this article to evaluate because it is relevant to my course in Latinx literature and I have just read excerpts of his memoir.

Evaluate the article
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 * The lead section of the article is a concise one that contains introduction toward the major sections of the article. The section contained a topic sentence that introduced the life of Bernado Vega in general by stating his identity as a Puerto Rican immigrants who moved to New York. This section of the article also provides enough information for the readers to understand what will be introduced about Bernado Vega (the writer) in this article. It also does not contain any information that is irrelevant to the later part of the article. Overall, the lead section of this article is a good one.
 * The content of the article was overall relevant to the topic of introducing Bernado Vega. It was last edited on September 16th 2020, so the content is up-to-date. It also uses authoritative sources such as The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States which proves its credibility. However, I do feel disappointed to see that much of the life of Bernado Vega, including his affiliation with the socialists and the tobacco factories, are not detailedly introduced in this article. The article cited his personal memoir as one of its source, but it could include more content from the biography to give a more detailed introduction of Bernado Vega.


 * The article is written from a neutral point of view and doesn't lean toward any specific position. There are also no viewpoints that are overrepresented or underrepresented. This article serves only as a brief introduction to Bernado Vega and I see that is all the thing it's doing, so it's good that the article is not trying to persuade its audience about a certain viewpoint.
 * The article cited some sources that are authoritative and one that is not quite so. The first one is the Oxford Encyclopedia mentioned above, it is also worth mentioning that the author used the 2019 edition, suggesting that the source is current. The second source that it cited appeared to include a link that is not working, I suggests that the link to be replaced in order for future readers to track the informations of that citation. The third source is Vega's personal memoir, which I believed served to provide a primary source to introduce his life, so it's also valuable to the article's content as a whole.
 * The article should be better organized, Benardo Vega's life in the New York City should not be sub-divided along with his memoir because even though his memoir is about his life in the New York City in general, it should still be separated so that the discussion about the importance of the memoir could be better organized into another categories . I suggests the second subcategories, New York City and Memoirs of Bernardo Vega, to be divided into two divisions, one is "His Life in New York City" and the other, "Memoirs of Benardo Vega". Overall the style of the content is very professional, so the writing quality needs no improvement to me.
 * The article used no images nor any other forms of media in it. To give the readers a direct introduction of the outlook of Bernardo Vega, I suggests the article should include a picture of Bernado Vega, which can be found through any search engine, just put in his name and there should be one.


 * Overall the article is a qualified one, just that if it get improved from my feedbacks above it will be better.