User:KalenMWhitehead/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Pollution)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is an extremely important topic to me. I had taken an environmental studies class in high school but I overall wanted to learn more about this topic.

Evaluate the article
Introduction: The first paragraph of this article was clear on what the topic was about. However I felt that there was some random information thrown into the introduction paragraph such as the sentence " in 2015 pollution killed 9 million people world wide". while this is a vital piece of information i felt that it would be better placed somewhere else in the article. I also believe that the thesis could have been better stated as i am still not clear on what exactly it is. I like how pollution is very clearly defined and that they added a list of different pollutants, which they also defined.

content: The first thing that i enjoyed is the table of contents that they provided right under the introduction, it was clear, organized well, and related back to the article. the section on the forms of pollution was extremely clear and not super wordy to it was easy to get through. They provided two charts on the topic and while i think they could have fit all of the information into one h=chart and that a lot of information was repeated i liked how through it was in making sure they didn't miss any content. In most of the other sections the information was up to date and was provided with examples. I enjoyed that there was a whole section on green house gas emissions to show how important that form of pollution was. It provided a lot of great information. overall this article had a lot of great content, the only issue i had was that it was a lot of repetition.

Both the organization and writing quality was done really well. Like I said in the last section there was a lot of repetition. I also think sometimes the wording didn't have the best flow to it but thats the only thing about the writing quality that had issues. The organization on the other hand was done extremely well everything was so clear and up to date. The way it was organized was almost satisfying and I took away a lot for when I will wright my own article. This article also provided a lot of great images to not only back up their information but also to look at. They were laid out well so that it wasn't in the way of the information.