User:KathrynRitter/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Visual communication

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.)

Visual communication directly supports and correlates to nonverbal communication which is my overall class topic of study. All communication theories and concentrations offer important insight into the way that we communicate with people, and inversely how people communicate with us. Therefore, all communication topics are relevant and important to not only the academic world but the world in general. This particular article drew me in initially with their choice of imagery, for a topic like visual communication my expectations were quite high for their visual example but I felt they hit the mark with their image of the visual communication process. A quick glance at the contents list for the remainder of the article confirmed my interest in reading further. Prior to reading it, it is notable that the article appears clean, concise, and approachable it is not cluttered or confusing and the transitions between subtopics seem to flow effortlessly. I look forward to pressing on in my evaluation of the content of the Visual communication article.

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.)

The lead section was unremarkable, it was clear and concise although at times it left me wanting a little more which may be understood as a positive attribute as that is what the remainder of the article is for. As one reads on it is important to note that the tone is purely clerical, informing the reader of what is needed from a place of pure neutrality. However, there were many mentions of historical figures predominately white with little examples utilized from minority groups both modern or historical. This lack of minority perspective does not seem to sway or distract one from the core purpose of the article, to inform and educate about Visual Communication. I will note that surprisingly there are many places which seemed to be overlooked in editing. The overview for example which is only the second lead in to the article is chalk full of grammatical mistakes, editorial notes and missing citations. There are less mistakes as the article goes on but it does seem to be a consistent issue through the remainder.