User:Lianna Joe/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Social work

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am currently taking a college introductory class on social work. I am very interested in this field, and have plans to pursue social work as my profession. Reading articles about social work is one way to help me gain more knowledge, and evaluating the content is a good way to test how much I have learned so far by being able to recognize errors in the info and give feedback for improvement.

Evaluate the article
The introductory paragraph is a bit long and jam-packed with information. There is too much detail in the first few paragraphs to call it a simple overview. In my opinion, the first paragraph is enough to sum up what the profession is all about. This helps the reader make a quick decision on whether this article will be helpful and whether they want to continue reading. The following paragraphs should have a separate section because they start going into the specifics of the field when it is only supposed to be a concise summary.

Other than that, I appreciate how they give multiple definitions of what social working is by quoting multiple professionals who have defined it themselves. The history section is also broken down very well. It not only discusses the roots in the United States, but also Canada, India, and Iran.

Furthermore, when talking about the many areas of social work, the article goes into brief detail on how different theoretical models and practices have come into play, and then gives an extensive list of the various areas of focus in social work. The subjects in the list are hyperlinked so the reader can find out more about that area in particular to prevent the article from straying from its purpose by adding unnecessary explanation. Throughout the rest of the article, important topics are broken down with a reasonable amount of depth within their respective sections.

Overall, the article is well balanced with a scholarly tone that is well written, exclusively factual, and gives lots of credit to the actual National Association of Social Workers (NASW). There is only one image for the entire article, and I think it could have been left out. It is simply a picture of a slum in the 19th century that is not significant enough to take up space.

The talk page is exactly what you would expect it to be with multiple contributors addressing how the major aspects of the topic are going to be explained. People also ask each other a bunch of questions to get everyone's input and to fact check with others. Although the article has a "C" rating since It could have gone into more detail, the topic of social work is very complicated by default, and I think this particular page has served its purpose of being informative yet not overwhelming.