User:Eaustin656/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Thermodynamics

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this topic due to it's pertinence throughout all of my coursework for my undergraduate career. This topic has been applicable in effectively all of my science coursework as thermodynamic principles make the basis of which everything else is building off of.

Evaluate the article
The article is pretty long (as you might expect from an article like this), but ultimately gives a great framework to jump off of to understanding the bare bones basics and getting into more specific information as you continue to read down the article. For the overall article, I think there are more applications to engineering as opposed to chemistry though, which could suggest the background of the authors involved. Potentially going over the laws of thermodynamics and then pairing down links to other articles with more biological/chemical//physical/mathematical/engineering applications could lend to a more cohesive navigation of this topic from this page.

I do appreciate that there are references provided, but given the topic it feels a little blank overall in terms of source material. I didn't delve into each source separately, but given the length of the article and the topics covered, I expected a little bit more overall. That being said, the ones I did parse through did seem credible and useful for further reading on the subject matter.

Somee of

The article doesn't utilize very many figures, and the figures that are there I don't believe add a whole lot to the article overall. The subject material covered definitely seems substantive, but overall I don't feel as though there is much here to work with or comment on.

The article overall is very well organized in terms of the information covered as each section covers what it says it will cover, but I do think that for such an important topic, this article could use a few tweaks to improve it. Better figures to demonstrate the laws of thermodynamics, or showing more of the theorems derived using thermodynamic principles would add a lot of additional context to how important this field is to science. Some of the later sections seem a bit bare bones and basic overall in terms of overall substance in particular. I do believe that the article is generally pretty well written, but could use some extra love on it to flesh out some of the other subjects mentioned and to make it a bit more visually interesting and clear.