User:KennyTharp/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Players (Magazine)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It seemed to be an interesting article and we chose it for our project.

Evaluate the article
My teammates and I split up the article in 3 parts, I took the "Cultural Significance" portion

- I thought the section "Making Players unique" was really well done, as it gave both sides of the position of the magazine, as a unique storytelling device which used "different ways" to push forward Black culture and life. The final two sentences could be seen as redundant to the earlier portion, but overall not too shabby.

- The "Themes throughout Players" section seemed too thin, as the themes for this magazine company far outstretch just a paragraph. They did hit the bigger ones on the head, but upon just a little google research I was able to find different avenues of themes as well that weren't really touched upon by the article. I also believe there were some citations errors with book titles and direct quotes. I enjoyed the mention of Jet, as these two publications are kind of similar, but I thought the article did a good job differentiating the two. I also thought that the last couple sentences of this paragraph tailed too far from the point of the Players magazine, as it became a breakdown of the book, "A Taste for Brown Sugar".

- The "Change in Content over Time" section was probably the most compact section for information. It detailed the fluctuation over time of how Players created an effective formula for publishing black material. One of the quotes could be condensed, as it takes up a 1/4th of the section. However, it blended real well towards the end as it finalized with the movement away from the "pimp" model pushed by Weinstock and Morris.