User:Jocelynwright/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Homosexuality in the DSM

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I majored in psychology in college and this was a topic that came up often, so it stood out to me when I saw it listed under Psychology in the Academic Disciplines list here. We had also mentioned it in this class (INST 614) briefly, so it seemed fitting.

Evaluate the article
Overall, I think this was a well-written article. It is concise but still contains the necessary information to understand how homosexuality has been treated in the DSM up until its removal in 2013 with the DSM-5. As is to be expected, the major sources were the different editions of the DSM. Therefore, some of the sources appear to be out-of-date, such as previous DSM versions and sources from those time periods, but these are appropriate in this context as they are meant to capture attitudes from the past. The lead section

The article is generally neutral and well-structured. One sentence was marked "[tone]" in the Background subsection under DSM-III-R, which I agree would be better rewritten to be a bit less casual. In the next paragraph, a section is marked "[clarification needed]." This sentence would not have stood out to me without that flag, but upon further reflection, I agree it would be beneficial to add more information on the kind of treatment that continued to be provided despite the changes to the DSM. Otherwise, no essential information strikes me as missing.