User:Hadleightaylor/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?

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 I am a religious person. In the beginning, bases off the title I did not realize it was evaluating a book that has already been written. Once reading and finding this out I did enjoy it. This article is important because it gives the reader a quick run down on what the book is all about. Obviously if you read the book you will get more information but this is article is important because it gives us a summary of the book. Based off scanning the article before reading it I found that it did really well when making sure to reference where are the quotes came from. It hit all of the important pieces of the book. I did find it to be a little short to be a summary of a whole book.

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.)

Before the summary section, when we get an introduction of the book I believe it is lacking a bit. All we get in when the book was written and who it was by. I believe and wish that would have received a better explanation of the book before getting the summary. Personally for me it was a little lacking. Moving down to the summary all of the grammar is correct and it does a great job of making sure that of the sources used are cited. The summary is very bundled into one though. It is not broken into sections which can make it hard to follow. I found that I understood it well but it would make more sense and be more helpful if the summary was broken down into sections. It is very short as well. To my knowledge I feel like when you are giving a summary of an entire book there should be a larger summary than there is. The summary is at a good point but I believe that it can built on so much more. Reflecting on the sources use they are all reliable. They are good sources to be used. There are links to everything and they all work. Even when they reference something like the “Book of Joshua”, you can click on it and be brought to a page about the Book of Joshua. I think this is important and a great touch to the article because if you do not know what those things are when reading you can find out. The only thing is the sources used it is very hard to find what year these sources are from so it hard to tell if they are recent and up to date. The article is written in a very neutral tone which is very important when you are giving a summary of a book. It is important to only give the information and not be biased! This article strictly dishes out information from the book to make a summary and is not biased. The only image we are given is a cover of the book. I appreciate that because it allows reader to know exactly why book this summary is about. Overall after evaluating the article I think that it has a good base that can be built in and should be built on. I think once it expanded with more information on the book then it will be a really good article.