User:Cputnam27/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Rhetorical Velocity

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because it is a relevant topic to my Digital Writing course. It also clearly needs more attention than some other rhetoric-related subjects, as the article is two paragraphs long and only has two references. The information should be expanded on and checked for accuracy.

Evaluate the article
This article is quite underdeveloped, consisting only of two paragraphs. The introductory sentence summarizes the topic well, but the rest of the paragraph qualifies more as the article's content than a lead section. There are no headings or subheadings aside from "See also" and the references section. A proper lead section should be written and more information added to the overall article. There has surely been more academic discussion and study of rhetorical velocity since 2008-2009, the years of the only two references, so that information should be added to bring the article up-to-date and generally flesh it out. It would also bring more diverse perspectives on the topic since the article's content currently consists largely of one academic article. Once that's done, there would also be better organization as the article could be broken up into understandable sections. Images should be added if possible in order to help convey the content. Additionally, there are several links leading to pages which do not exist, and so those links should either be removed or attached to existing relevant articles.

The Talk page is rather sparse, but it does note that the article is the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment which is going on right now in the fall of 2021. It's also included in the WikiProject Writing and its quality is rated as stub-class, which I definitely agree with. It's rated mid-importance, which does seem to be more up to debate. The only comment in the Talk page calls into question the notability of rhetorical velocity. Depending on how much information can be found to supplement this article, it may be better to add rhetorical velocity as a section to another article, perhaps a topic under rhetoric or media studies.