User:CollegeSeth/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
English studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it directly relates to why I'm attending college. My field of study is English, so I figured it would be fitting to check out this page. This article might be important to people interested in studying English in the future and could be a easy gateway to find information.

Evaluate the article
The first thing that caught my eye is that this article does not seem well-organized or cited. The intro paragraph is long a blocky with distracting tangents that are not needed. Another distracting feature is how many blue hyperlinks there are just in the first section alone. For an intro paragraph, there's way too many. Much of this information does not appear to be sourced either, or it does not have the corresponding citation if it came from a source. Also, there does seem to be some personal bias and strange comments sprinkled throughout about the importance or relevance of an English degree.

The sources that are listed seem legit. Although, there's only 13 references for the entire page (it seems like it should be much more). Some of the sources seem a little dated, so I would consider checking to see if there's more current info on the same topic.

The conversations behind the scenes seem to be echoing some of things I have mentioned here. The general consensus is that this article is not the best and a lot of work needs to be done to revise it. One section mentioned that there was so much work that needed to be done they gave up on their original attempt.