User:Nana byun/Evaluate an Article

What article you are evaluating:
Presentence investigation report

Why are you evaluating the article:
The content of article is related with the materials in my writing class.

structure:
I think the overall structure is good, except some part of it may need to seprate into several paraghra to make it cleaner to reader, such as the history part. It mentions the transfrom of emphasis of the report, and I think it would be good to explain the features of the report before and after changes in two paraghras.

Content:
The content of this article is directly related to its topic, so that the reader can grasp the meaning of the core concept of PSIR in a short time. At the same time, some supporting definitions make it clearer, such as the "legal term" link in the first paragraph. But at the same time, I think that the definition of PSIR could be more detailed, such as adding the groups that may use it and the people it is intended for. As I look at the edit history, as a new article with most contrubutions done in year of 20, it may need more contributors to make the content more comphrehensive.

Sourcing:
More up-to-date sources are needed, and I think it will be better to use cases to explain the session of "Controversy". Like it says in the part that "Generally, the state (or judge) seeks to rely on extremely subjective, hearsay-laden documents such as police reports and presentence reports as "evidence" that the defendant committed a "violent" crime". Here the "extremely subjective", more citations and explanations are needed.