User:MartaHarrell/Evaluate an Article

Truth Condition
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article:Communicative competence
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. It sounds intersting to me!

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? Yes
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? Not really. There are no major sections
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? Yes
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? Overly detailed with the fact that it doesnt go on to explain all of the things it talks about in possible major sections

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
 * Is the content up-to-date? Yes
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? Yes there is content missing.

Tone and Balance

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 * Is the article neutral? I would say no.
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? Yes
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? Yes, Noam Chomsky's POV isnt well addressed.
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? From the information thats given yes.

Sources and References

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 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? Yes, they are well referenced
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? Yes
 * Are the sources current? Kind of. Could be more up to date, the latest source is from 2010.
 * Check a few links. Do they work? Yes

Organization

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 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? Its short and concise but its a little all over the place. Each of the paragraphs kind of talks about completely different things.
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? Doesnt look like it.
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? Not well organized, could be structured in a different way so that all of the points get a good paragraph for themselves.

Images and Media

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 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? No
 * Are images well-captioned? No images to caption
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? No images to adhere to the regulations
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? No images to be laid out

Checking the talk page

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 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? Yes there is conversation happening bts but nothing really is being done to fix what they are suggesting. Its like theyre just commenting about the problems and hoping someone else will fix them.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? It is rated as high importance and is part of the WikiProject Linguistics. It is supported by the Thoretical Linguistics Task Force and the Applied Linguistics Task Force.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? Not really sure. We havent really discussed this topic in class, but the page is what I was expecting. There wasn't too much information and there is much more that needs to be added.

Overall impressions

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 * What is the article's overall status? Its been created and there is at least some sort of intelligable information, but there is more to be done. For this topic, there are many resources that can be found to add onto it. So id say the status is good but requires work
 * What are the article's strengths? It has a lot of good scholarly information on there. And the references are well sourced.
 * How can the article be improved? Needs more sections that go in depth. The introduction can be written to be more focused on the topic and not other related topics. There can be a section with written out examples of what Communicative Competence looks like.
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? Its defintely underdeveloped. Needs a lot more work.

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