User:Jennagyee/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Music and sleep

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because I am very interested in the relationships between music and other aspects of our daily lives. As a musician myself, I have seen how much music can transform my own personal life, but I have not learned much on how it affects us in more psychological or physiological ways. Music and its relationship to sleep matters because both play very important roles in many peoples' lives, as everyone needs sleep and insomnia and other sleep problems are wide spread. My preliminary impression of the article was that it was much shorter than I thought it would be, given the large range of subject matter that it could include. However, I found that the article was easy to follow and included many short summaries that helped to get the main points without much reading.

Evaluate the article
The lead section does include an introductory sentence that describes the topic and then follows with descriptions in a concise manner. It does not seem to include much content that does not belong or relate to later parts of the article.

The content of this article was good, although slightly sparse. The content was relevant to the topic and relatively up to date, as there were articles from 2020 and 2019 along with some of the articles that were published much earlier. This was a positive for me, as it implied that recent research agreed with and was still relevant to older research. I didn't feel like there was much content that did not belong but I did feel it was slightly vague, so maybe some content is missing. The article does not seem to address topics specific to underrepresented populations/topics but I would state that it is relevant to these populations.

The tone of the article does seem to be neutral and it lacks claims that are biased toward a certain position or against certain people. There aren't really "view points" represented in the article because it is pretty heavily based off of research and doesn't include many minority or fringe viewpoints either. It is not attempting to influence or persuade, just presenting research.

There were lots of sources and references that were referenced throughout the article. Many sources were very current but all were reasonably chosen. While I was unable to check every link, many of them did work when I tried them.

The writing quality seemed fine, although not amazing. I felt it somewhat lacked engagement because there were no pictures or visuals to help discuss their points. My overall impression of this article was that it was good enough. It didn't really have major problems but there were some problems such as the lack of pictures and the shortness of the article overall. That being said, it was a good summary for those who do not know much about the topic and so I think it served its purpose well.