User:MasaraFargo/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
AmeriCorps

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose it because I thought it be an interesting act to look at. This act is very important because it does two things at once. It encourages volunteers to help the poor and the needy, while at the same time raise an incentives with education grads for volunteers. I also learned that the initial program lead way to so many other programs that emphasize specific aspects of service.

Evaluate the article
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Lead section

This section was confusing to me, I had to read it twice to really understand what the topic was about. I think it should have been split into two paragraph. The first being brief summary of the purpose of the AmeriCorps, and the second devoted to the programs that are a part of AmeriCorps. It might be difficult for readers to distinct the purpose of the AmeriCorps from the purposes of its sub programs.

Balance

The article has several paragraphs on some of thew specific programs under the act, but then it just had a list of other programs without going into any detail about them. The page could be more balanced if there was a small sections detailing out the listed programs under Other Programs.

Sources and references

A quarter of the cites sources on the page are subsections of the AmeriCorps website. It might be helpful to look at other websites for more diverse points of view, especially under the Effectiveness section of the article.