User:Laurenhensley/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Social work

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I think that Social Work is a critical field and I feel as though it does not receive enough attention. My step-mother is a social worker and I think their jobs are so important.

Evaluate the article
I think overall the lead is pretty decent, however the introductory sentence is simply a long definition of social work. This definition is well written and necessary, but should have come a little later in the paragraph after a good intro sentence. In addition, the lead speaks a lot about the history of Social Work, yet it has a History section later on. It fails to introduce the rest of the major sections. The content in this article is outstanding. It provides several different definitions of Social Work, gives a history background in many countries, and provides a lot of information about the profession/professionalism involved with social work. With a neutral tone, this article does a good job of representing many different viewpoints. There are very many sources listed at the bottom, and most if not all seem to be credible. There are many links within the article to support citations. There are only two images, but they do seem to adhere to regulations. However, they are small and off to the side. I think the article is very well organized and well written. It is divided into relevant sections that each have important points, and the order of these sections flows well with the content. This article is listed as Level 4 and B-class. It is part of two Wikiprojects, one with top-importance and one with low-importance. There are only a few comments with corrections or suggestions. Overall, the article does a really good job of synthesizing the professions of social work and providing a history of social work from around the world. I think it also did well at including unique information, so as social work in literature and the use of information technology with social work.