User:Mshay6/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title:Library anxiety
 * Article Evaluation:The contents of the article is relevant to library anxiety and is written pretty neutrally, but many of its claims do not have citations. The ones that do are reliable citations from different sources. This article is also pretty complete, I would say the main things that would need to be added are citations. It does also tackle an equity gap with access to libraries, so the information in this article is very important and it should be expanded on. Some parts of the article could also be cleaned up (i.e. the references section, article structure).
 * Sources
 * Rath, L (2023). Information literacy is a social practice: A threshold concept for academic instruction librarians. Journal of education for library & information science, 64(3), 294–310. https://doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.3138/jelis-2021-0067
 * Maluski, K. and Bruce, S (2022). Dispelling the Myth of Library Anxiety and Embracing Academic Discomfort. In The Library With The Lead Pipe. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2022/myth-of-library-anxiety/
 * Jiao, Q. G., et al. (1996) Library anxiety: Characteristics of ‘at-risk’ college students. Library & Information Science Research, 18(2), 151-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0740-8188(96)90017-1

Option 2

 * Article title:Al-Assad National Library
 * Article Evaluation:The contents of the article is relevant to the library and it is written neutrally, but it is a bit bare and could use more information, such as its impact on the community. The list of departments does not have citations, and there are not that many citations for the article. Some of the citations that are there are broken and in Arabic. It does tackle a Wikipedia equity gap, since it focuses on a national library of a Middle Eastern country, which is an important area that needs to be included in conversations about libraries. It looks like the article is just recently being maintained.
 * Sources
 * Jeffreys, A. E (1984). Development of the Al Assad National Library: Syria - (mission). https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000068082.locale=en
 * :Al-Assad National Library (n.d.). https://www.cometosyria.com/en/pages/Al-Assad+National+Library+syria/24/1

Option 3

 * Article title:Leila Clark
 * Article Evaluation:The content of the article is relevant to Leila Clark. It is written neutrally, but it is very short and could have some expansion of what Clark did as a director at the Smithsonian. Each claim does have a citation and they are reliable, I would say the main issue with this article is how underdeveloped it is. It also has not been edited in a bit more than a year, so it is not being maintained at this moment with new edits. The Talk page is also pretty bare.
 * Sources
 * Leila Gay Forbes Clark (n.d.). Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42167017/leila-gay-clark
 * Clark, L. F. (1939). Butterflies from Virginia. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34606526#page/1/mode/1up
 * Clark, L. F. (1946). The Library of the Smithsonian Institution. Science, 104(2693), 143–145. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1674790

Option 4

 * Article title:Online Writing Lab
 * Article Evaluation:This article's content is relevant to OWLs and is written neutrally, but the citations need work and it could be expanded content-wise. Many claims do not have citations and the citations that are there are only links and all lead to the same single source, so they could easily be lost and do not satisfy the necessity that Wikipedia articles use multiple sources. The article could also use more content, such as the services an OWL provides and other OWLs besides Purdue.
 * Sources
 * The Writing Center (n.d.). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/
 * Excelsior Online Writing Lab (n.d.). Excelsior University. https://owl.excelsior.edu/
 * Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) (n.d.). LINCS. https://lincs.ed.gov/professional-development/resource-collections/profile-917

Option 5

 * Article title:Student syndrome
 * Article Evaluation:This article's very limited content is relevant to the topic and written neutrally, but needs expansion. More could be written about the causes of student syndrome, how it can be overcome, and how the concept has developed over time. Each claim does have a citation and they are reliable, so the main issue with this article is how short is underdeveloped it is. Additionally, it is an important topic that many students face so this is an article that should be better developed.
 * Sources
 * Aransiola, O. J. (2023, April 23). Student Syndrome: What Academic Researchers & Educators Should Know. FormPlus. https://www.formpl.us/blog/student-syndrome-what-academic-researchers-educators-should-know
 * Virtue Map Team (2023, June 23). What is Student Syndrome: Psychology Behind. VirtueMap. https://virtuemap.com/student-syndrome/
 * Shatz, I. (n.d.). Student Syndrome: Why People Delay Until Right Before Deadlines. Solving Procrastination. https://solvingprocrastination.com/student-syndrome/