User:Madilbrown/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Upstream and downstream (transduction)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it can help me further understand an important part of cell biology that we have learned in this course. My first impression was that it read very easily and explained things well.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

Everything in this article is relevant and flows pretty well. However, in the lead section, the author does not utilize the first sentence to explain what transduction is and differentiate between upstream and downstream to the reader. The first paragraph does not concisely and accurately describe transduction as the cascade of molecular signals from exterior to interior that invoke cellular responses. When defining both upstream and downstream in the lead section, the author uses those terms directly instead of explaining them using different words. For someone who does not know a lot about transduction may not fully understand what upstream and downstream transduction are after reading the lead section. I think it would be beneficial if the author elaborated on what kind of cellular responses that transduction can cause in the last sentence of the lead section.

Content

The main content of the article focuses much more on the upstream pathway compared to the downstream pathway. I believe that the downstream pathway was neglected and could have a lot more information. From what I have learned in cell biology, this content seems accurate and up to date. The images can help readers understand and make up a little bit for the gaps that the author left.

Tone and Balance

I do not see any particular viewpoints or bias in this article.

Sources and References

The links to the sources work and do not appear to be biased in any way. A few sources are a little outdated, but the information used from them in this article seem to line up with current day understanding of the topic.

Talk Page

There are no conversations going on in the talk page. The article is rated C-class and is a part of pharmacology and molecular biology wikiprojects. This article differs a lot from the way we have talked about transduction in class. It pretty much only discusses one mechanism as opposed to the plethora of mechanisms that we have gone over in class.