User:Melinab21/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?

 * 1) Medical volunteerism
 * 2) International volunteering

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article as it investigated the motivation behind volunteers which actually contributes to my argument on the concerns of international medical volunteerism. This matters as it provides a basis for discussing the ethics involved in this line of work.

I chose this article as it provided a larger scope to my discussion of medical volunteering and delve deep into the history and critiques and challenges associated with international volunteering. This article feeds more into the to topic of my sector as it generalizes medical volunteering.

Evaluate the article
This article is certainly still in the early draft and lacks any introductory writing on the topic. It fails to outline what medical volunteerism is and jumps straight into the motivations of volunteers. i certainly believe that the content in the article is relevant, but I also believe that a. lot of information is missing. The article only expands on the work of dental volunteering, and while that is an important aspect of medical volunteering, there are many other sectors to consider and discuss. Additionally, the information on the ethics portion can certainly be more researched and expanded upon. In terms of sourcing I do believe the article does a good job at citing information throughout. The tone of the essay effectively remains neutral and while they consider the ethics, it doesn't allude to medical volunteering being something good, bad, or advertised to any specific population. The talk page is not very extensive but there is work being done in attempt to add to the content of the article.

The article does a good job with the introduction. I think it could have been a bit more descriptive with the general work done my international volunteers. But they also follow up with historical context which adds to the introduction and the work of international volunteering. The content also does stay up today and looks at current organizations and their impacts. The history and critiques in the article are sufficiently backed up by evidence. I believe there could be a little more content on on the benefits of international volunteering that expands on the ideas of doing good in which the motivation of volunteers often arises. There isn't much discussion on the talk page and it mostly discusses touching up on the work already there. There are no proposals of new or amendments for the content. The strengths of the article include its discussion on the history and its analysis of challenges and critiques.