User:Liza6066/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Sustainable development

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I thought this article would be interesting to evaluate because sustainable development is so important in order to reduce our carbon footprint. As we know, climate change is impacting not only us as humans but the ecosystem we cherish.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section:

Lead In the beginning of this article it describes what sustainability action is, "organizing principle for meeting human development goals while sustaining the ability of natural systems." I thought this article did a wonderful job on what the ideal outcome of sustainable development should be. That being that ecosystems and humans coexisting without diminishing each other ability to be successful. The lead of this article is concise and does not give an overly detailed information that is overwhelming.

Content:

This article dives into relevant topics. For instance, the article goes into detail on how the foundation of sustainability begun and whom founded it. In addition, the article is up to date on the methods needed in order to successfully contribute to a well suitable planet. The author also includes how technology can positively impact sustainability.

Tone and Balance

I would say this article is neutral because it has good representation from other sources. I do not see any claims that seem relatively biased. I thought all claims where well represented and back up with evidence effectively. This article does a poor job of representing other populations, it lacks the ability to appeal to readers that do not how to contribute to this research.

Sources and References:

This author does a good job with including a variety of sources to his claim. All the sources that he includes are semi-current. Some of them range from 1950's through more recent times like 2010 and 2018. In addition, some of the sources are not contactable and need to be update in order to avoid plagiarism.

Organization and Writing quality:

This article was well written and presented to the reader eye very easily. The author was able to utilize ETHOS and employ this in order to spark a reaction the audience. In addition, the grammar and over all spelling was perfect and it seemed as though someone peer reviewed it many times. This article was also broken down into section, which made it very easy for the reader to grasp different topics. For instance, the article has subheading like "Development of the concept", "Reception", "Requirments" and "Dimensions".

Images and Media:

This article did presented many images to their reader. They presented graphs and economic and social aspects to reduce global warming.

Overall Impression:

I thought this article was very informative and holds a lot of research with a relevant topic.