User:Jiaqimeng/Evaluate an Article

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 * Name of article:Bilingual education (Bilingual education)
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate: My Final paper for R1b is about revitalization strategy for Cheyenne language originally spoken by an Indian Tribe. As education is one of the most essential part for saving an endangered language, I would like to read some articles on multilingual education. The Wikipedia article called Bilingual education ,could provide me massive information about essence of bilingual education through the cases all over the world. By reading this article, I learned much about how construct a suitable educational system for saving Cheyenne language

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? :
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?:
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?:
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Lead evaluation
The lead in this article clearly introduce the main content from each section presented in the article.

The author briefly introduce the meaning and the component of the bilingual education.

Overall, the lead is succinct summary for content in the article.

Content

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 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? :
 * Is the content up-to-date?:
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?:

Content evaluation
In the article, the relationship between most content and the main topic is strong ,because the author introduce the detail information and examples of the bilingual system.

Also, "Myths surrounding bilingual education", the section introduced in the end of the section is extra, because the content from this section cannot effective serve the main topic which is the bilingual education system.

At the same time, section "American Congressional Acts" need some recent information, because the author mainly demonstrate the example of bilingual system United Sates in 20th century.

To fully demonstrate the information of bilingual education, the author should include the history or background information of the topic. Plus, example to support "the importance of bilingual system is needed.

However, the article is informative enough by providing a link for cases of numerous countries in "By country or region"

Tone and Balance

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 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Tone and balance evaluation
As an article mainly for introduction of bilingual education system, author keeps his tone neutral without presenting any biased information.

However, I think the article is not balanced enough, because the author simply mention the acts taken by U.S government but dose not summarize the action exerted all over the world.

Sources and References

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 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Sources and references evaluation
Source and reference in this article are qualified.

The article provides links of related reading in the sections, "By country or region" and "See also".

One for supporting information, while the other is for extensive reading with related topics

Organization

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 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Organization evaluation
The article is not well-organized enough.

In the section "Bilingual Education Program Models", which is about the process to establish an ideal bilingual educational system, includes massive information.

Thus it would be better if the author divide related content into different sections with titles. In this way, the article is easier for audiences to read.

Images and Media

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 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Images and media evaluation
There should be some related images in the article.

For example, pictures of bilingual education institution and students.

Checking the talk page

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 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Talk page evaluation
The topics of conversation are mainly about how to improvement suggestion and the main topic of the topic. Some of them demonstrates the drawbacks of this article, while the others are talking about cases of bilingual education.

The article is about WikiProject Linguistics.

The topic on who to globalize the bilingual educational system is out of the scope of our courses

Overall impressions

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 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
The structure of the article is clear and easy understand. However, there should be more supporting informations like examples and images related to the main topic of the paragraphs.

Also, some content are not closely related to author's main point and should be replaced with more background and historical information about bilingual education.

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