User:Laurel.woods/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Visual communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate visual communication because I believe it is a very interesting form of communication. It matters because all of us use some type of visual communication on a daily basis, whether is young children drawing pictures or teenagers and adults on social media platforms posting pictures. My first impression of visual communication was communicating without a verbal dialogue.

Evaluate the article
The lead sentence includes a definition of the topic and examples to help the reader understand the topic from the beginning of the reading. This lead sets the reader up to know precisely what the assignment will be about by giving examples from major sections and only including information relevant to the rest of the reading, yet, the words that were seen as necessary in the leading paragraph weren't talked about throughout the rest of the article. The lead section was manageable with information but didn't give a clear insight into what is to follow in the reading.

This article is up to date; it talks about visual communication dating back to prehistoric times, for example, cave paintings, to the current day, where visual communication is used in many ways, some being social media, schooling, and work. The content discussed is relevant to the article's topic, giving multiple models of how visual communication is part of our everyday lives. No content is missing or doesn't belong in this article. This article does address historically underrepresented topics. In this article, the author talks about a man named Aldous Huxley. He became partially blind in his youth and advanced to become a well-known trailblazer in visual communications despite his disability.

This article appears to be neutral. There isn't any persuasion of believing one thing over another. Strictly informational.

The author, when using sources, did manage to cite all of his sources in a footnote except for two needed citations, and I also saw a few labeled unreliable sources. The sources used are current, and the sources I clicked on do work, backing up the author's claims. Historical individuals were brought up in this article, but the main focus throughout this article was the current day. For the authors' articles that need more reliable sources, they can find many other dedicated articles on reliable databases like ResearchGate, JSTOR, and ScienceDirect.

This is a well-written article. It was broken down into distinct sections and clearly outlined the topic being discussed. I didn't find any typos or misspelled words through my easy reading.

There are two images in this article, both cited, and both are used to help give yet another example of how visual communication is used. These images are visually appealing and do not veer from the article's topic.

On the talk page, there were both good and bad comments. The bad comments said that the author should use more reliable sources, more visual aid, and other problems. This article is rated with high importance. It has been used multiple times for course assignments which are good because it is getting a multitude of different opinions on it.

Overall, this article's status is high, commonly used, and wiki rated its high importance. This article does an excellent job of giving a lot of information on the article's topic. This article could be improved by having more reliable sources and a more valuable intro that explains sufficiently. In short, the rest of the article. This article is well-developed but could have some changes to help perfect the article and make it easier to understand.