User:Klynne1103/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Academic discipline

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose to read this article because it told me to pick an article similar to this class and this was closest since it has to do with academic disciplinary and that involved not copying others work. This is important because writing and citing sources correctly is a big part of college and its important to have accurate information, but make sure that you are giving the right people credit.

Evaluate the article
Content: It talks exactly about what it should with providing a lot of additional information about the topic.

Tone and Balance: The article is neutral and just provides information and facts rather than an opinion. There are no claims specifically towards a topic, although while talking about discipline it may be easy to discuss what a person may be doing "wrong" they never said that because what is right and wrong is an opinion. Instead the writer did a good job only saying facts about discipline and defining it rather than discussing what falls under discipline.

Sources and References: The article used 12 different reliable sources and cited and linked them properly. The author also added additional articles to read, cited them, and linked them below the article they wrote. Some of the sources are current, but since the author rights about the history of discipline there are also primary sources from the past linked. The sources are diverse and from good places such as scholarly books and news papers.

Organization and writing: The article is in a logical manner. It first defines the topic and what the article is going to discuss. Then it goes into the history and then further explaining other topics and modern day history. Additionally, each different section is separated by a bolded header to make it easy to follow. There are no noticeable grammar or spelling errors.

Images and Media: The author has no images or media, which make the article slightly more boring and not as fun to read since it is not broken up. However, it is a professional essay with good information and I feel media is not needed.

Talk Page Discussion: I am not entirely sure how to see what the article is rated, but I do not think its from Wikiprojects, I think it is just straight from Wikipedia. It is also in 24 different languages which makes it seem even more professional. This topic is talked more on a broader term than we talk about it in class. It talks about academic discipline as a whole rather than just writing plagiarism which is what we focus on in class.

Overall Impressions: This article was a good, well written article. I do not know why I would ever need tp read this other than for this class though, because it provides a lot of useless information. It can be improved by having a few less words because it is a lot of text for such a simple topic. The article is well developed and broken down good.