User:Kiarapech/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Dress history

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I know nothing about dress history and have never thought about it.

Evaluate the article
This article was very interesting. These are my thoughts on the article:

Great lead section! From the first sentence, the reader knows exactly what dress history is. The rest of the lead section describes the modes of dress research and the types of scholars that research and discuss dress history. This is misleading because the article itself (at least from the title) seems like it will discuss actual dress history rather than the methodology.

As a whole, the article ends up discussing how dress history research is done and where researchers gather their information. This feels like an incomplete article as of now. I feel like this is a good methodology section that could lead into the actual detailing of dress history.

The sources range from 1995 to 2015 which is confusing given that the article should be discussing history. Because of the emphasis on the use of primary sources to conduct research, I felt that the lack of these sources show the incompleteness of the article. However, all the sources used are scholarly and credible. Although only some of the sources have are linked to their articles, the articles that are not linked can be found with the cited information.

Throughout the article, the tone is neutral, it is perfectly expository. It discusses various points of view as various people research in different forms, but I did not feel like it mentioned a preference for a method.

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Overall, the article is misleading and seems incomplete. It discusses the methodology of dress history the entire time and not actual dress history. The article has strong citations and strong writing. It is easy to understand while not oversimplified. Improvements I hope to see include an expansion on dress history across centuries. Even just having the recent dress trends would explain more about dress history than just methodology.