User:EJPit/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ecocriticism

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
As climate change becomes one of the most pressing issues facing our society and planet, ecocriticism is becoming more and more relevant as a way of developing thoughts and perspectives through the humanities that can help us grapple with environmental issues.

Evaluate the article
I think that this article could be expanded and reorganized. The lead section introduces ecocriticism as a means of examining the ways literature treats nature, but I think that the current definition is far more broad than this, encompassing philosophical perspectives for thinking about the environment and climate (not just "nature") through a variety of mediums. The rest of the lead section is more successful at identifying how broad ecocriticism is, but this should be established from the initial definition in the first sentence. In terms of content, some of the information in the "In literary studies" section could be moved to a new History section, and new sections should also be added to cover ecocriticism in other fields of study and artistic mediums, especially philosophical studies. Additionally, the intersections of ecocriticism with environmental justice and climate change should be discussed. The article has an appropriately neutral tone and is generally well sourced, although most of the references are quite dated, with only three sources published in the last two years. Given the recent growth of this topic's relevance, I think more recent sources need to be added.