User:Daisydriftwood/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Post-traumatic stress disorder


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is developed with relevant content, using unbiased languages and reliable and up-to-date sources to support each claim. It is relatively well-structured, with the Lead going over all the major sections that are covered in the article.
 * However, to improve this article, I'd like to make some followings changes:  - Remove "Associated medical conditions" from the Symptoms section and turn it into a separate section of Comorbidity, with more empirical findings added.
 * - Risk Factors: Add Biological factors, Childhood experiences, and Personality
 * - Diagnosis: List specific DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for example
 * - Medication: Review the literature to make some update, if available
 * - Epidemiology: Update statistics


 * Sources
 * The sources cited are reliable secondary sources of information and are up-to-date.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Generalized anxiety disorder


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article consists of relevant content to the topic, but some major sections that appear in the body of the article are not mentioned in the Lead (i.e. pathophysiology, comorbidity etc.). The article uses neutral languages and reliable sources, though the majority of these sources seem to be not up-to-date as they are mainly from the early 2000s. The Talk page is not that active, with only one conversation about adding gender as another risk factor of the disorder and one about adjusting a visual content of the article.
 * Some of my suggestions to make this article more complete are to change the section of pathophysiology to mechanisms, which will detail a few mechanisms that may contribute to the disorder, to update statistics and specific years in the epidemiology section, and to rewrite the Lead that would reflect all the changes made as well as include all the major sections covered in the body of the article.


 * Sources
 * Even though sources used are reliable, they do not seem quite up-to-date.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Specific phobia


 * Article Evaluation
 * The Lead is pretty succinct and straightforward. However, it seems that there is still a lot of room to improve this article as the sections are currently underdeveloped.
 * Suggestions to improve:
 * - Diagnosis: Update and rewrite the section based on DSM-5
 * - Mechanisms: Add behavioral explanations for specific phobia
 * - Treatment: Extend this section by looking for more supportive results in the literature
 * - Epidemiology: Update statistics


 * Sources
 * Sources cited are limited, making the article lack of validation as a whole.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Panic disorder


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is well organized and is written with neutral languages. Overall, it is concise and easy to understand, except for the part of Mechanism.
 * Some improvement suggestions:
 * - Causes: Add biological and cognitive explanations
 * - Diagnosis: Update with DSM-5
 * - Treatment: Review the literature for the most current treatments of this disorder
 * - Epidemiology: Update statistics


 * Sources
 * Sources used spread over a long period of time, but most of them are relatively current.

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