User:Hemridhu/sandbox

Paragraph
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A : Highlight your text, then click here to format it with bold, italics, etc. The “More” options allows you to underline (U), cross-out text (S), add code snippets ( { } ), change language keyboards (Aあ), and clear all formatting .

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Cite: The citation tool in the Visual Editor helps format your citations. You can simply paste a DOI or URL, and the Visual Editor will try to sort out all of the fields you need. Be sure to review it, however, and apply missing fields manually (if you know them). You can also add books, journals, news, and websites manually. That opens up a quick guide for inputting your citations. Once you've added a source, you can click the “re-use” tab to cite it again.

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Evaluating an article exercise
Article evaluated: Academic Discourse Socialization

Lead: It does have an introductory sentence that describes the topic, however, it does not provide the source from which the definition has been taken. Plus, it describes the topic in one sentence and then jumps on to the heading Academic discourses. The lead should provide introduction to the Academic Discourse socialization and not Academic discourses.

Content: The content is not directly related to the topic. It describes academic discourses and why there they are so popular. The last three paragraphs under the heading popularity of Academic discourses should be in the lead paragraph. The content is also not up to date.

Tone: This is certainly another issue. As a reader I found the tone quite personal throughout as the ideas are not backed up with a credible source.

Sources and References: It does not contain many sources. In line citation only include two references. There are many facts for which the in line citation is missing. There are just a couple of source which are current, for example Morita (2009) and Hyland (2009). The article should have referenced Dr. Patricia Duff who has coined the term "academic discourse socialization".

Organization: This definitely needs improvement. (also see my comment above in the Lead section). It is broken down into topics but it needs a good introduction and some more paragraphs.

Images: No image included.

Talk Page discussion: Yes, it is a part of Wiki Project as I can see that it says that the article has multiple issues, especially in terms of references and the tone.

Strengths & Weaknesses: I would say that after reading the article, the reader would get a general sense of what academic discourses are and why they are important. But it does not touch much upon the main topic: Academic Discourse Socialization. It is poorly developed and needs improvement in almost all areas.