User:MonetFairley/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Race-based traumatic stress

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it relates to concepts that I am going to discuss for the wikipedia page that I'm going to write for this class. It also was the article that I chose to add three sentences to for the assignment for this class. My first impression was that this article held a foundation of information that could be built on as new research came out.

Evaluate the article
This article does a good job at summarizing the topic in the lead section. It also has a table to contents for the article but the lead section doesn't go into detail about what each section will discuss. The race-based traumatic stress article does a good job at having sources that are up to date, with a majority having been published within the last five years, and the content is relevant to the main topic. All of the links to the sources work and they seem to be from a diverse group of authors that were published in a range of journals. This article discusses the stress people of color may experience when they encounter discriminatory situations in their lives. I believe the article to be balanced but they do not have a section that discusses differing opinions on the topic. The talk page of this article doesn't include any discussions but there are multiple edits when you look through the edit history. While there isn't any discussion on the talk page, this article explains the topic of race-based trauma much like it was discussed in our trauma class drawing attention to both overt and covert forms of discrimination. This article is rated C-Class low importance. One thing that I believe the article does well is defining the topic and bring up examples. One way I think it could improve would be to discuss some of the differing opinions about race-based trauma because there have to be critics of this topic that weren't included in the article. I think as a whole this article acts as a starting place of information on this topic but it does have room for additional information to be added as the research on the topic grows on treatments and models. I think that there also could be a section added for opposing views.