User:Matinhomafar/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Environmental studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I wanted to choose an article that I felt like I had enough prior knowledge about, so I opted to go with Environmental Studies, because it is also broad. I could also look for flaws more easily and fallacies were easier to spot.

Evaluate the article
Lead sentence is clear and the topic is in bold. Last sentence of the lead section does not have a citation and comes across as an opinion, so I would contemplate editing that section. Besides the last part, I think the rest of the lead did pretty well. The content is relevant and up-to-date, but the articles are not. For example, reference 13, used in the rankings, is from 2020. However, I checked the website, which directed me to topuniversities, and saw that a 2021 ranking was also available. The topic does not pertain to people who have been historically underrepresented. The "History" section also seemed to be quite rushed and focused on just the US, whereas other parts, such as the rankings, took other countries into account. I think the author(s) should have introduced the history of the study differently. Maybe they could have said, "the earliest environmental studies program to be taught was in..." Additionally, I think the section "History" is misleading if it solely covers the United States. I don't mean to be too critical but I think the article could have been organized better, but for what it is worth the article is concise. However, there are a few grammatical errors. One such error can be found under "Education." The last two sentenced of that section need to be fixed to be grammatically correct. The tone is balanced and does a good job of covering a broad topic. A lot of good topics were discussed in the talk page. For example, someone found an article that showed the Environmental Studies program at Syracuse predated the one at Middllebury College, hence its inclusion in the current article. Additionally, they talked about why environmental sciences and studies are separate from one another. All in all, I think the talk page did a lot of good for this article, but I do believe that this article needs a lot of change in order to improve.