User:Dancer11557/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Visual communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I have chosen to evaluate for my English class, but from the selection articles this one interested me the most because my major is communication. I'm hoping that my future career will have something to do with visual communication. Visual communication is important because everything relating to business and person life has a digital format, which is very visual. Visual communication has given many people jobs, so its important to know the foundations and building blocks of this area. My first impression is that its very long, but its good that this page is giving in depth information on visual communication. I think the topics are broken down well to cover the many areas visual communication is involved in.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

I believe the lead section of this page has clear and concise information of what the entire article is about. It remains broad and gives multiple examples of what falls under visual communication. All of the content provided is relevant to topic, but it is in need of an update. The politics paragraph seems very content heavy whereas social media seems to be lacking. Social media has taken the world by storm, so there needs to be more information on that side of visual communication because when people think of social media, they think of visuals. Specifically they need to add in TikTok because this new app is extremely popular for visual communication. Another noticeable portion of the paper that needs to be updated is the mentioning of chalkboards and projectors. Those are becoming more and more outdated by the second, this should be replaced with smartboards. The article overall has a good, neutral tone that is very informative. There were a lot of extra spaces and and missing commas. There does seem to be a slight issues with the sources. At the top I received a warning that this article needs additional citations for certification. It needs more reliable sources, since sources have been noted with "generic last has generic name". For a visual communication article, there could be a lot more examples of visual communication located on the page. As of right now, there are only about two photos. It would be nice to actually see different ways communication can be visual. This article has strengths in its history of visual communication, but needs lots of updating because this topic has expanded.