User:Delacruzjameson02/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)Political 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 chose this article because it follows the overall topic of the political communication class. It matters because it follows a broad topic that I will be following in this class for weeks. So far the article seems well detailed and explains political communication through multiple ways.(explaining the concept, explaining example, and incorporating other mediums that include political communication)

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.)The Introductory paragraph has a great topic sentence that explains political communication. However, the introduction paragraph goes more into a detailed explanation about the media's part in political communication and repeats the definition of political communication at the end. It also does not go into talking about the other major sections. The sources through the article isn't up to date and some of the information had definitely changed from the time that it was posted in the article. The sources are from a wide variety of authors (I witnessed that the sources where from textbooks) The article does not have bias throughout the writing as the writing is not determined through opinion. In the last section the article covers media social media use in Australia as a means to explain its effect on political communication(This information was out of date). This is weakness because it doesn't represent the whole world and its media usage. The article does have an image of George W. Bush giving a speech but no other visual aids. The article does break down the topic by explaining in more depth its concept and using examples from governments. It also includes fields of work in that area and the effect of social media. The writing was clear and concise but I did notice at times where the syntax would be off. On the talk page it mostly discussed improving the Social Media section in the article. I got the greatest impression from the conversation where the person mentioned to use America in this section as an example in which I agree with. This article was rated as a start-class by a WikiProject names Vital Articles. Overall, I think that this article has a great start but it needs more connected with itself in a way that the reader is able to get a great idea of the subject.