User:Lukenam12/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Effects on Pornography on young people Effects of pornography on young people

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article to evaluate because I thought it would be interesting. Especially with corona going around I feel like it plays a big role since everyone is essentially socially inactive allowing more space for sexual frustration to take place. Most people will turn to pornography when they are bored or even lonely so I thought it'd be interesting to see the effects it has on people.

Evaluate the article
The introductory sentence was clearly present and it did a good job in leading the article's topic and main ideas. It was a strong lead sentence that allowed readers to gauge on its composition. The lead does include a brief description of the article's major sections and it doesn't mention anything that isn't of the article's main sections. Overall, the lead is very concise and straight to the point and just talks about how pornographic material (sexual) are prominent on social media. The article content is relevant to the topic as it covers information on the effects of pornography: mentally, socially, and sexually. The content is up to date as it has information and citations from sources that were published 2005-2018. There aren't any content that is missing as it covers pretty much everything the reader needs to know on the effects of pornography on young adults. The article targets young adults and the effects pornography has on them. If younger adults are considered as an underrepresented population then yes they are included. The article was very neutral based on the fact that the whole article is based upon facts from reliable sources, there was no bias included in the article. The article does portray more of the negative side effects pornography can have, as it only goes over the cons. The cons are heavily overrepresented and the pros of pornography are very underrepresented, which makes sense since the research is based on the effect pornography has on younger adults.The facts in the article are backed up by a reliable source and it backs up the points very thoroughly. Some of the sources are from 2006 and 2005 or the early 2000s, but there were enough from 2016-2018. There are definitely better sources to back the information up since there are more research and studies based on the topic of the article. They could've added more sources that are more recent. The diversity of the sources are quite wide, there were some from psychology organizations, kids foundations, and sexual assault crisis websites as well. The links were all accurate and appeared to be working as well. The article was very well written, but did contain a lot of information. I think each point was concise, but again there were a lot of points to cover in the article. The article was very well organized and had each point as a section, making it very easy for readers to follow and understand. The article also didn't have too many words that were intricate making it easy for audiences to read and understand as well. The article only attached two images since the topic is explicit, but I feel like it could've had a bit more visual context, but again it was understandable for it not to. Although there were only two images, they were well captioned and straight to the point. The images did adhere to wikipedia's copyright regulation. So all in all visually there wasn't anything that made this article appealing but again that is due to the context of the article. The article's overall status is quite well developed and the article's has a lot of strengths. It was concise and very well organized making it super easy for readers to understand and follow. I wouldn't change anything about this article besides the fact that it could've added more pictures and maybe more recent sources to back up the main points.