User:Jamy Jung/Evaluate an Article

Evaluation of Anxiety dream article

 * Name of article: Anxiety dream
 * I chose to evaluate this article because I often have anxiety dreams and wanted to learn more about their nature and why people get them.

Lead

 * Lead evaluation

The lead of the article concisely and clearly outlines the topic of anxiety dreams. The lead describes five out of the eight major sections of the article; the lead does not touch on the major sections of "Pre-Freudian explanations," "Freudian theory," and "Treatments." The lead of the article is consistent with the rest of the article and does not introduce information that is not expounded later. The lead is concise and not verbose.

Content evaluation
All the content of this article is relevant to the topic. The content of the eight major sections focuses on explaining the classification of anxiety dreams, historical leading theories behind anxiety dreams, causes and effects of anxiety dreams, and treatments for anxiety dreams. The content of this article contains information within the context of historical and modern theories and cultural ideas. All of the content ties into and does not deviate from the main topic. Although the content is topical and informative, the Effects section of the article seems underdeveloped and more elaboration would be insightful.

Tone and balance evaluation
The article is neutral in tone and contributors expresses the ideas of other academic writers. No viewpoints are taken toward the topic and information is presented in a content-focused manner.

Sources and references evaluation
The facts in the article are backed up by reliable sources. The sources seem thorough; however, only a few of them were free and easily accessible online. Only two of the seven references had links to the actual source, and both of them were only accessible for people who had accounts. One of the sources were from before 1970, three of them were from before 1990, and the rest of them were relatively current.

Organization

 * Organization evaluation

The article is well written and easy to read. There were no glaring grammatical or spelling errors. The sections encapsulated major aspects that were important to the topic.

Images and media evaluation
There were no images or pictures in the article.

Checking the talk page

 * Talk page evaluation

Despite the fact that this article was published 9 years ago, there has been only one contributor. There are no comments or conversations in the talk page. The article is rated as a C-class on the quality scale of WikiProject Psychology. We haven't started talking about dreams in our class yet, but the topic ties into what I learned about Freud's wish fulfillment theory in intro to Psychology. In a Freudian sense, anxiety dreams seem to be a way the mind punishes itself for pursuing irrational desires.

Overall evaluation
This article did a decent job expounding the main ideas behind and the framework of anxiety dreams. One strength of the article was that the writer used topical information from academic sources to write in an easy to read manner. This article could be improved by adding more details to the section on the effects of anxiety dreams on the psyche; I found that this section could be particularly insightful and informative if elaborated more upon. This article is well developed but has room and potential to be more informative.

Optional activity

 * Link to feedback: Talk:Anxiety dream