User:Mlchoffel/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Essay

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article was chosen as it has a strong connection to what we are doing in this course.

Evaluate the article
Overall, the article is well-developed, with numerous relevant subcategories and in text links. It can also be noted that the article makes sure to include information about the history of essays outside of just the Western Hemisphere. For example, it includes the history of essays in both Japan and China, each with their own fleshed-out sections. My main complaint for the article is that in the introduction, a remark is made about the definition of an essay being vague. This statement distracted me and made reading the rest of the article a little difficult. I feel as though this line should be edited to reflect a more neutral tone to improve the article.

The citations need some work. For the length of the article, it is severely lacking in sources. In addition, some of the links simply do not work. The first link I clicked on redirected me to a webpage that had nothing to do with the adjoining statement in the article.

From reading the talk page of this article I am able to see that this article has been faithfully updated of the past few years. However, it can also be seen that there have been a number of disagreements over this page since it’s beginning.