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Article Evaluation:

evaluating the anthropology section of the social sciences page.

first observation is there are not enough citations. The training said there should be at least on per paragraph and there is not.

second observation is that there a lot of linked words, I think this is good because it allows people to click around and get more info.

third observation is that the article has good information and is correctly paraphrased but again there are not enough citations, they even mention theorists and link to their pages but they don't cite their work.

fourth observation is that there is no mention of the controversial early colonial and racist history of anthropology, I don't think this constitutes as bias because I believe all sides of a debate should be provided.

The article I chose is about Interactional sociolinguistics

The full text of the extant article is below:

Interactional sociolinguistics is a subdiscipline of linguistics that uses discourse analysis to study how language users create meaning via social interaction. Interactional sociolinguistics was founded by linguistic anthropologist John J. Gumperz. Topics of interest include cross-cultural miscommunication, politeness, and framing.

In terms of research methods, interactional sociolinguists analyze audio or video recordings of conversations or other interactions. Analysis focuses not only on linguistic forms such as words and sentences but also on subtle cues such as prosody and register that signal contextual presupposition. These contextualization cues are culturally specific and usually unconscious. When participants in a conversation come from different cultural backgrounds they may not recognize these subtle cues in one another's speech, leading to misunderstanding.

The first thing that I noticed is that even in comparison with other articles in our group it is very very short. I'm wondering if I will have to write entirely new sections and am worried that that will be hard and that other people won't have to do that so I'll have no instructions.

The second thing that I noticed is there are only two citations and both are about the anthropologist that founded the field. I will definitely need to find more, both for the existing text and anything that I add.

Moving forward I will:


 * 1) need to learn more about what this subject actually is

2. think about how I am going to frame my article

Three sources:

I have encountered an issue- the original article is definitely in german

Great job evaluating the points that can be strengthened in the article and steps moving forward -- have you started pulling together sources? -- Shannon
 * Gal, S. (2013), John Gumperz's Discourse Strategies. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 23: 115-126. doi:10.1111/jola.12023
 * Bruss, N. (1986). TESOL Quarterly, 20(1), 111-116. doi:10.2307/3586392
 * Diehl, D.K. Qual Quant (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-018-0787-5