User:Nawahine10/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Manti Te'o

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I thought it was rather interesting. I wanted to see the information that they would contain after the documentary of Manti Te'o. Overall I thought the order of the article could've been done better. I also chose this article because I am related to Manti so, I wanted to see the information given.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is a little outdated and needs to have new information because it talks about him as if he is still a football player who is a free agent right now. Manti is done playing football so they need to explain how he had a football career, but is now retired. Now, I love the way they have the article laid out. They show the difference of his high school years then go into his freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior season individually. The problem that I have with it though, is I believe the order of the topics are a little weird and can be arranged better. They talk about Manti's personal life at the end of everything when I think it would flow better if they put it at the beginning. The content is also lacking information when it comes to his personal life and what he's doing now. It's not proportional like the other information. The article does a great job of putting in factual evidence. They don't put any beliefs, and with the evidence they do a great job sourcing the following facts. They do a great job sourcing his information making it easy to find where they found or know this information. It's a well written article that could use more information and as well as better organization in a small way. I think they can add a little more pictures that would help us better understand his situation. I think they can add pictures of him at the Heisman or even him regarding the hoax. The articles strength is the layout and how it talks about each individual season. It does a great job of separating the information and putting it in order. I thought the information was good regarding his career but was lacking in other parts of his life. Overall a solid article that had good information.