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Uncertainty Reduction Theory

 * Through this point of the course, this theory is the most interesting to me.

Lead
The lead paragraph does a good job providing a brief, informative introduction into uncertainty reduction theory. The information provides enough detail to catch the reader's attention, without making the lead difficult to read or digest. While I believe the major subsections of the article should be covered in the lead, I feel this eliminates the ability for the lead to be concise.

Content
With a limited knowledge of communication thus far, in particular relational communication, the article does appear to current and essential information to URT. Further study of the theory is required to make a more accurate evaluation. The articles content is well written and appears to be written academically. One equity gap is noted. The article covers the theory's application with ethic minority populations, the LGBTQ community is not represented within this article. Research review is required to determine if this gap is due to a lack of research on the topic, thus limiting the ability to add content covering it application.

Tone and Balance
The article provides well balanced insight into uncertainty reduction theory. Based on my limited knowledge thus far, I do not believe that any bias exist within this article.

Sources and References
This article appears to be utilize many strong sources and is extremely well cited. Forty-nine different citations are listed and almost exclusively consist of academic books or peer reviewed articles. In addition, a further reading list was provided to provide readers with additional sources of information to study the topic. Testing ten percent of the citation links, no issues were observed.

Organization

 * Guiding questions

This article was an easy to read, educational information. I felt the articles was organized in a progressive, easy to retain format. The way this article is written, a reader is easily able to read a portion of the article and pick back up right were they left off. As I reviewed the article, I do not notice any errors as it pertains to grammar or spelling.

Images and Media
This article contains no images. The article does have a few charts and tables that were easy to read and understand.

Checking the talk page
The talk page has many conversations from communication students from other universities. These conversations are centered around edits for various course assignments.

Overall impressions
I feel the wikepedia article on uncertainty reduction theory is well-written and extremely information. Due to the scope of the theory and the quality of information provided by the authors thus far, I see minimal areas of improvements. The only area of improvement that I noted thus far is how this theory applies to various minority groups, ethnic or otherwise. The ability to add this information may be limited by a lack of research on this subject and requires further investigation to determine the ability to address this area.