User:Mailesittler/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Sexual violence and Recovery model

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I've chosen the first article "Sexual Violence" to further explore the sector of sexual violence through comprehensive discussion on factors associated with increased risk. This article seems to explore the history and definitions of concepts involved in the issue. This article specifically attracted me because it covers a wide range of subsections and I wanted to evaluate how well or comprehensively they addressed such a large issue in just a few paragraphs.

I chose the article on "Recovery Model" because it emphasizes victim support for sexual violence through "recovery" initiatives which include emphasize on community, identity, empowerment, trauma informed care, among others. This model of support focuses on uplifting victims instead of neglecting or criminalizing which I believe to be an important tool to support victims and have been doing research on for other academic projects. I've been reading about the "recovery model" through various scholarly sources as a mode of support service and was curious to evaluate how my knowledge aligned or differed from the content of this article.

Evaluate the article
The first article has a great lead section and is concise throughout the text. It's not overly detailed and begins with with a definition of sexual violence and is organized into subsections for the preceding text. Throughout these subsections, the article also does a good job in balancing the informational content of each section. The content incorporates discussion of the victims impacted by this issue, the implications of culture and feminism, statistics, treatment and prevention methods as well as law and legal frameworks concerning sexual offenses. The sourcing is adequate throughout the article and the sources are up to date. Importantly, this article is also written from a neutral point of view meaning that the text is factually based and written from an objective point of view. There are no images that supplement this work. The talk page discusses the possibility of the "sexual violence" article being merged with the "sexual assault" article because of their content overlap. The proposer of this suggestion discusses how sexual violence in loosely defined in this article which could be an area of improvement.

The "Recovery Model" article is also organized through subheadings that focus on different sectors of "recovery" care. It begins with history of this model then progresses into the elements of recovery including connectedness, hope, identity, healthy coping strategies, empowerment, substance dependence, trauma-informed care, and then discusses conerns of this approach. There is comprehensive sourcing but I believe some sentences could still use sources. The sources are very recent and the article overall is written from a neutral/factual perspective. There have many many link modifications in the talk page and discussion around the article title and development. Like the previous article, there are no images in this text, which is appropriate considering the topic. Something that could be improved upon that they discuss in the talk page is how the origin of the article was discussed in the lead section, but not elaborated upon in the body of the article. This is an important section that deserves more analysis.