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Article Evaluation: Old Kingdom of Egypt
The article on the Old Kingdom of Egypt was very helpful in getting insight to how life was back then. The article was very organized and I liked how it broke off into sections specifically talking about each Dynasty and what was going on then. Each section would start off with who was ruling during that time period, what that person did for the society, and other notable events that occurred. In addition to that, the content on the sides of the article broke it down even more and had pictures with descriptions to go along with what was being talked about. While reading through the article I was able to get visual in my mind of what was occurring while knowing exactly when it was going and why. Some of the pictures included landmarks and pieces of art and it resembles the culture in each Dynasty. I believe the article was neutral and is strictly for gaining information on the Old Kingdom. It was not persuasively written where one ruler look better than the other. It gave the straight-up information of what happened and leaves it up to you to interpret whatever you want. For example, after reading through what each ruler did I had my own opinions on it as compared to having one of the authors push a one sided argument. The links to the other cites work and have valid citations. The websites I viewed from other people's citations were all reliable sources. There was not any information I thought I needed to remove. I just added more information on the topics being talked about where I thought it made the most sense with the flow of the article. The information I added went a little more in depth with the sentences that came before it and did not seem to add too much. Looking through the other articles available to choose I see a big difference from Wikipedia articles and the ones we did for this class. People come to Wikipedia to get as much info as they can on a topic quickly with the information being easy to follow. It will go in depth slightly, but it will just skim the top of the topic(s) as a whole. This is different compared to our class because in each of our modules we had to write multiple responses. So when going through the articles and videos I wanted to grab as much information as possible. Sometimes there would be a time where I came upon something and was able to write about it for most of the assignments in the module. But for the rest there would not be enough info on just for all the parts of the module. This forced us to learn more and write about more which ends up helping out huge in the end. You end up getting a better grade because you have retained more knowledge while also having quality writing and not just a couple points here and there. Overall this article was a good source of information and I enjoyed evaluating it. Finally, this project was a great way to wrap up this course tying together all the skills we learned during the course to create our own part.