User:Nathaliehr1/Evaluate an Article

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 * Adoption in the United States
 * This article focuses on a topic that interests me, adoption is social issue, it is important in our society and must be studied thoroughly.

Lead

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 * The lead in the article is consisted of a definition for Adoption which clearly states the main idea of the whole text.
 * The lead briefly mentions some of the subtopics discussed later in the article such as foster care and international adoption.
 * The lead mentions the ideas of minor children and adult adoption which are not later discussed in the article.
 * The lead is brief but straightforward. It mentions the main idea of the text clearly while providing some background information about some topics which are thoroughly discussed later in the article.

Content

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 * The article's content is directly related to its main topic. The article informs the readers about adoption, its types, consequences and some of its restrictions.
 * The article contains information from 1999 till 2014, this means that it's not up to date since it's topic is about a social and not a scientific issue which means that many things would have changed from 2014 till now (2019) such as many new laws and rules have been added.
 * All the content of the article are relevant to the main topic (types of adoption, consequences of adoption...)

Tone and Balance

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 * This article is considered to be neutral, it doesn't mention any personal opinion, it focuses mainly on stating facts straight to the point.The article doesn't focus on any particular point of view, it's not biased to a certain stand, and it doesn't attempt to persuade the reader towards any specific position. All that the article focuses about is informing the reader about some facts concerning adoption issues.

Sources and References

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All the facts are backed up by a reliable secondary source of information, such as statistics, numbers, dates, and places. And through all of these supporting information it achieves credibility.

Statistics (256,132 total adoptions by 2014)

The sources are thorough but not current enough since they trace statistics back in 2014. However, all the links provided in the article work and lead to information once opened.

Organization

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The article is very well organized, it doesn't shift directly from one idea to another confusing by that the reader. Every subtopic is assigned a certain paragraph. The sentences are all concise and straightforward, so that the reader's attention is not shifted. There are no grammatical or spelling errors throughout the whole article.

Images and Media

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There are no images provided in the article which usually help deliver the main message.

Checking the talk page

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 * This article is within the scope of WikiProject. It has been rated a C-Class on the project's quality scale. The talk page of this article contains some criticism about the article such as not having enough sources and containing a sentence with a bad structure. However, most of the criticism is old (2006-2007) which means that by that time, the article had been modified several times and many ideas have been added to it and the sources were improved.

Overall impressions

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 * The article and well organized and informing.
 * It contains subtopics which are directly related to the main idea and each subtopic is supported by several examples. This gives the article its strength.
 * This article can be improved by adding and discussing more subtopics since adoption is a broad topic which holds several ideas within it.