User:Lihuamh/Choosing an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Article title
Prestige (Sociolinguistics)

Article Evaluation
This article has a C rating and contains a wide variety of information. It is important that the article contains examples from different cultures across the world in order to give a wide range of examples for a wider range of understanding. At its core, the article has good information but could use phrasing edits and I believe I could contribute more information on examples that are prevalent to social issues today for example AAVE usage.

Article title
Evolutionary Linguistics

Article Evaluation
This article contains a C rating and contains very in-depth information. The article gives a dense historical view of the subject and then leads into the overall view and the approaches to the field. It is also important in that it notes any criticisms of the field and gives an unbiased view of the topic.

Article title
Applied Linguistics

Article Evaluation
This article contains a C rating and is relatively short. I believe that more information could be included in the article that is less repetitive and more dense. It seems as though the article contains very general information by just listing the applications of applied linguistics rather than describing its impact and effects. I believe that this article could use much more in-depth information that informs the reader of the applications of the field.

Article title
Phonology

Article Evaluation
This article provides an in depth overview of phonology while also distinguishing it from phonetics for readers that may become confused or not know how the differences between the two. The article gives a good summary of the history of the subject and leads into applications of the field. The article is a great start into the subject and provides good graphics, too.

Article title
Dialect

Article Evaluation
This article provides an in depth explanation of what a dialect is and how dialects have many social and political implications. The information is very detailed and uses understandable language while also providing other vocabulary for the novel reader to learn. It is also interesting to see the examples of different dialects in other countries such as German, Italian, the Balkans, and more.