User:Lgaut/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Communication studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Communication studies can be very broad and there is a lot of information to be shared about it. It is also always changing. My first impression of the article is that it is very short and more should be added.

Evaluate the article
Lead section:

The first sentence gives a good overall summary of what communication studies are about. The following sentences do describe what different branches of communication studies there are, but the article itself does not necessarily contain those topics. Communication is a broad topic but the lead seems to be a bit over detailed.

Content:

The content could be more up to date. The content (different subjects) is not equally discussed and could use improvement on the different topics that exist in communication studies.

Tone and balance:

The article is neutral but it lacks research from other countries, the focus is only on Canada and the US at the moment.

Sources and references:

The sources seem to be from a number of different decades, and sources seem to be from many different authors. One section (the In Canada section) is missing sources and citations.

Organization and writing quality:

Writing quality is ok. Paragraphs and content can be better organized.

Images and media:

No images. Media could be added so that the article can be more interesting.

Talk page discussion:

The talk page discusses what is needed to improve the quality of the article. Some critics are similar to what I have written in this evaluation.

Overall impressions:

Because of my communications background, I believe this article needs a lot of work. It is missing a lot of information that could be useful to users. Its focus at the moment is too narrow.