User:Hrgmk4/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
African-American Vernacular English

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am chose to evaluate this article because I think it is important to understand how "proper English" perpetuates white supremacy and how different dialects and forms of the English language are not a sign of a lack of intelligence.

Evaluate the article
I think this article gives very good insight on what African-American Vernacular English is. The lead section gives a good initial definition. I like that the lead section also points out how AAVE is particularly used by working, class and lower class African-Americans. I also like how the lead section points out how AAVE has its own grammatical structures and vocabulary. I think this lead section is slightly overly detailed, which can make it confusing to understand what AAVE is. The content of the article is very concise and it includes the origins of AAVE, phonology, grammar, variations (rural vs urban AAVE) and AAVE in social contexts. I think the article could talk more about the controversies about the word "Ebonics" and why the word is controversial/problematic. The content in the article is up to date, but I think more research can be done and added to the article because the last citied article was in 2010. I think that the tone of the article is neutral and strictly informative. I don't think any bias is included in the article or any one side that is over or underrepresented. Although I think the article should add more up to date references, the references listed are all reliable, scholarly, good sources. I liked how many of the sources are from Black people who use African-American Vernacular English. I think although in the beginning the article is clear and concise, when it begins talking about phonology the article becomes hard to read and confusing. The article has no photos or images and I do not think that images would be beneficial to the article. On the talk page, some of the conversations happening is that the article lacks sourcing and editing the section for the use of AAVE in schools and academia. Interestingly, another conversation happening in the talk page is the inconsistent capitalization of the word Black. In some parts of the article the word Black is capitalized and in other parts it is not. Overall, I think that this article was very informative. I think it is neutral and uses good sources for the most part. I think the article should be more concise when it begins to talk about the specific phonology and syntax, but overall it was easy to read and understand.