User:Lindseyfturner106/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Stress in early childhood

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate an article on the development of children and how stress interferes with it because I work with pre-teens to teens right now who are court appointed to the program at Family Connections or either have no place to go so they come to the shelter they offer. I am positive they are enduring extra stress going through this "bump" in their life, so this article could be useful for me to understand how previous stress in their earlier childhood affects their lives currently.

Evaluate the article
Lead sections: I was able to tell by the first and second sentence what the article was going to be discussing. It isn't overly detailed or contain any irrelevant information. The first paragraph was straight to the point which helped set up the major points in the articles in a clear and precise manner.

Content: The content is up to date and relevant to todays world. It will always be important to understand how stress affects our children so we can learn how to help and guide them into turning their stress into something positive rather than negative. The article has a great deal of information on several aspects involving early childhood stress.

Tone and Balance: The article shows no signs of bias as it is neutral. It has reliable sources attached so it helps the authors remain unbiased and keep the article strictly fact based.

Sources and References: The sources provided are relevant, current, up-to-date, and working. Most of the sources come from authors discussing child development but there are a couple about topics such as stress and trauma that helps tie into the main point of the article.

Organization and Writing Quality: The article is broken down into different categories that all pertained to stress in early childhood that made it easy to follow along. The sentences were clear and flowed nicely and I noticed no grammar errors.

Images and Media: The "The ACE Pyramid" was the only image present. Although this was the case, the image was very relevant to this article and laid out and explained in a clear and precise manner. The Adverse Childhood Experience Study is important in determining how previous adverse childhood experiences are strongly tied together with health and social problems as one grows into an adult, so this was a strong image to use.

Talk Page Discussion: There are very few conversations happening on the "talk page." Two conversations were all that took place and one was a correction to a previous article another individual edited. The other conversation was one about stress in early childhood as an orphan.

I believe it is different from class because the talk page seemed to be something no one is too aware about so there is hardly any discussion at all on there. I believe it has potential for strong conversations.

Overall Impression: This article overall had a ton of relevant facts that have credible sources following. I would like to see more images because I personally like seeing something drawn out and discussed. I would also like to see more conversation in the talk page discussion as I enjoy reading others thoughts and ideas. The article did though touch base on a lot of different topics within stress in early childhood so it had a lot of information overall about the topic.