User:Milanrex/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Free writing

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article because it is the article I will be editing/contributing to. This will help me to understand where it excels and where it can use some improvement. I chose this article in general because it closely relates to my Project 1 topic of expressionism.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Is everything relevant? For the most part the information is relevant to the idea of Free Writing. The Evolution of free blogging section caught my eye. I am confused how it is important in understanding free writing. I can see how it could add to the background of free writing and its uses but it doesn't do a great job at elaborating on the topic. The editor kind of just brought it up and didn't connect it very well to Free Writing.

Is any information out of date? In my opinion the articles that were referenced are pretty up to date. The articles used in the historical section are obviously going to be from the very beginning of this thought as it was introduced almost fifty years ago.

'''Can you identify any notable equity gaps? Does the article underrepresent or misrepresent historically marginalized populations?''' Considering this article is about free writing it doesn't touch on specific populations at all throughout.

What else can be improved? I think its great that many different sources are introduced but I would say there is room for additional detail surrounding these ideas. For example, in the criticism section there are good sources that have been drawn upon but they only are around a sentence long and don't give a clear picture as to why the point was made.

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? I think the Use in Education portion can use different perspectives. There is only one example used from Natalie Goldberg however there are many scholars that have written about free writing and how it can contribute to composition but also just how it can be used in education.

'''Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?''' I would say the tone is neutral and there is no significant bias. The article presents the idea but also shows criticisms of it showing both opinions on the topic.

Sources? The sources all seem reliable and there is definitely a large variety of authors.

Talk Page? The talk page doesn't include much information that would be beneficial to the article. It does however present the idea of merging the free blogging and free writing page. I think this would solve the problem I mentioned above about the lack of elaboration on how free blogging is related to free writing.