User:Kylerstrickler/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Risk Communication


 * Article Evaluation
 * Obviously, this is a pretty short article and one that needs worked on. The lead is longer than the rest of the article combined, and it has some information that could probably be broken into completely different sections in the body. However, for an article so short, it does have a good number of sources. For every piece of information, there is a source, but it does seem like most of the sources are specific to a thing that is mentioned. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but there probably needs to be more "bigger-picture" sources that are complete and have a variety of studies and information in them. The "methods" and "challenges" sections obviously need to be way more fleshed out with both information and citations, especially seeing as the "challenges" section currently does not have a single citation and actually has a note to need one.


 * Sources
 * Risk Communication – Consumers Between Information and Irritation
 * Examining uncertainties in government risk communication: citizens' expectations
 * Information Sufficiency and Risk Communication

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Relationship Maintenance


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article confuses me. The message at the top reads that it needs to be edited in order to more like an encyclopedia, because it was written like a personal essay. To be honest, I am not sure how that is possible after reading it. There is a great amount of citations that are relevant and trustworthy, and all of them are used in an effective way. The article offers many different sections that talk about the different components on relationship maintenance. I think that the only thing I noticed that the article desperately needs is a better sense of organization and determining what sections belong where. For instance, there is a section titled "types of relationships to maintain", but then romantic relationships are not even mentioned and instead is a section by itself. However, I cannot really see how this would ruin the reliability of the article, as it seems like everything is unbiased and sourced well.


 * Sources
 * Shared family identity as a moderator of emerging adult sibling relationship maintenance and relational quality
 * Self-Determination in Marriage: Actor and Partner Effects of Spousal Autonomy on Relationship Maintenance Behaviors
 * Media Portrayals of Romantic Relationship Maintenance: A Content Analysis of Relational Maintenance Behaviors on Prime-Time Television

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Frame Analysis


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is probably the best or second-best of the three options that I chose. The lead is very fleshed out and does a good job overviewing the rest of the information that is going to be relayed, but it is also concise. The sources are also worked in perfectly throughout the article, as basically every sentence is well-sourced. The main weakness of this article is that some of the sections towards the end are pretty skinny, and need some more information to flesh them out. There is a few interesting citation errors, as the authors do not use footnotes and instead opt for complete in-text citations at some point. Overall, there is some general clean-up needing to be done, along with some information that needs to be added.


 * Sources
 * Agenda-Setting, Priming, and Framing Revisited: Another Look at Cognitive Effects of Political Communication
 * Integrative Framing Analysis: Framing Health through Words and Visuals
 * Climate Change Frame Acceptance and Resistance: Extreme Weather, Consonant News, and Personal Media Orientations

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Option 5

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