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Article evaluation:

Pragmatics topic

The subtopics tie with the main topic of pragmatics and builds from it.

The Wikipedia article for Pragmatics references a variety of sources that apply to the topic. The information is based on different theories and compared to principles by known scholars.

The Referential uses of language has more detail than the non-referential uses of language.

Not all links work in the citations.

Each paragraph has a citation as is required, but not all the information has a reference.

The citations are being questioned, but corrections have been made to add references. Not all subtopics have enough information to support their claims or has misleading information. The subtopic of Deixis does not have enough detail.

It is rated with High-importance and is part of the WikiProject.

The way the topic is discussed in Wikipedia provides more referential information and builds on the topic immediately and in class we only reference one book.

Bibliography:

Citing homework

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-5347(00)89004-7

Coelacanth, rare fish that are believed to be extinct.

International Corpus of English evaluation:

Group editing

The reference pages that are linked to the wikipedia have working tags.

In an introduction section more information is required about different teams that continuously join the project of ICE. Using the corpus, EFL to ESL

In another section, defining the concept of ICE and dividing it into subsections to compare it to another major corpora called Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE). 

A subsection for the spoken component of ICE corpora. This makes recordings available with transcriptions. developments for the spoken component of ICE corpora

ICE in the Expanding Circle, this article talks about expanding ICE to other groups. EC and ICE

More in the history section is needed to elaborate on the database of ICE that is used by several publications. Background information is needed about how long ago this database was introduced and how the database was created. Sidney Greenbaum and Professor Charles F. Meyer who coordinated the project are not mentioned. The Wikipedia page also fails to say that ICE has 32 texts it represents. History information history

A section about criticism of ICE should be accounted for to talk about the complications of the project. It is difficult to keep updating the database and it takes a lot of time to work on it.