User:Kaelizahradnik/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

Health Communication (journal).

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I wanted to learn more about health communications and how it can benefit this world. Health communication matters because you can increase your awareness of knowing about a health issue and also learn about healthy practices. It can also enable health messages to form mass media in-person, small groups or community campaigns.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.) Lead Section: Yes, the article discusses what health communication is and why it is important. It gives bullet points of what will be discussed throughout the article. No, it does not show any information that is not in the article. It lists everything that needs to be said and is not overwhelming with information.

Content: All of the information in the article is relevant because it explains what health communication is and other ways it can be used. Nothing is distracting; everything is organized and easy to navigate. It could be updated more, but it is very informational other than that- No mention of equity gaps.

Tone and Balance: The article lacks a neutral point of view. it is evenly spread out with information and doesn’t take a position. I feel like some points are overrepresented; it explains what health communications is a lot of times throughout the article. It gives more information about the positive and not much on the challenging parts. I feel like it does try to persuade the reader to agree with the information provided.

Sources and References: They have a lot of good sources of different health communications. When they started talking about strategies and methods, they could have added more evidence from where they got the information from. The sources come from different reliable articles. All the articles I clicked on took me straight to where it needed to take me. Most sources are from the 20th century but only the historical ones.

Organization and writing Quality: The article is easy to read and understand. From what I read, I did not see any major errors. The article is divided into sections regarding different human communications, and is easy to navigate to the main points.

Images and Media: The article definitely lacks images making it harder to comprehend. The article only shows one image,  which doesn’t help understand anything from the text. The image is on the side and is captioned, and is in the right section.

Talk Page discussion: On the talk page discussion, there are only two comments, How is mental health and communication influenced by the social media world we live in today. Is it good or bad? The other one was Health communication in multilingual societies. The article is involved in the Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Communication Studies. The article is similar to what we have discussed in class, like verbal and non-verbal communication.

Overall Impressions: The overall status of the article is very good, it provides a lot of information on health communication and many sources to help the reader better understand what they are talking about. It does a great job of discussing health communication campaigns and how they aim to increase awareness and knowledge about a particular health issue, promote healthy behaviors, and encourage people to seek medical care. I think they could have added more visuals throughout the article, but besides that, it is organized and easy to navigate the main points throughout the article.