User:Pat Miner23/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

 * Reg Revans
 * In this article, the introduction paragraph gives a very shallow level of knowledge on who he is, which is technically what an introduction is supposed to do, but it feels like some things are missing. Two out of three sentences in the introduction paragraph are about his participation in the Olympic Games which doesn't really describe what is in the full articles major sections.  Moving on to the content section, I think it covers pretty much everything that needs to be said about Revans, it talks about his books, describes action learning, and gives a nice finishing touch by adding the legacy tab to talk about how much he impacted people around the world. I think the section about his success in Belgium can be expanded to all of his success, or there should be an added section about his olympic time since it is talked about so much in the lead paragraph.  The tone of the article comes across as very neutral and makes it readable for everyone. It speaks highly of Reg but gives crucial information and good details about his life and accomplishments. I think with a man like this, it is hard to take a stance on something that seems to be a neutral topic.   The only issue I see with sources could potentially be the order of the sources, the first one is about his stint in the olympics where it should be about his accomplishments with action learning or his merits as a teacher.   I found a couple grammatical issues in the article and found parts in the early life section to not be as clear and concise as the rest of it.   There isn't any images on the page and I think that could enhance the pages overall feel and look.   Overall, I think the articles strengths are the way they speak highly of his achievements and describe action learning in a detailed fashion, but I think there is parts that aren't concise that can be fleshed out.
 * Barker, A.E. (2010). Remembering Reg Revans: Action Learning’s Principal Pioneer. In: Boshyk, Y., Dilworth, R.L. (eds) Action Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250734_2 Dilworth, R. L. (1998). Setting the stage. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 11, 5-8. Nicolson, R. I. Revans Reborn: Revving up a Region with Multi-Organisation Deliberate Action Learning.
 * Barker, A.E. (2010). Remembering Reg Revans: Action Learning’s Principal Pioneer. In: Boshyk, Y., Dilworth, R.L. (eds) Action Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250734_2 Dilworth, R. L. (1998). Setting the stage. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 11, 5-8. Nicolson, R. I. Revans Reborn: Revving up a Region with Multi-Organisation Deliberate Action Learning.
 * Barker, A.E. (2010). Remembering Reg Revans: Action Learning’s Principal Pioneer. In: Boshyk, Y., Dilworth, R.L. (eds) Action Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250734_2 Dilworth, R. L. (1998). Setting the stage. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 11, 5-8. Nicolson, R. I. Revans Reborn: Revving up a Region with Multi-Organisation Deliberate Action Learning.

Option 2

 * Frank Gilbreth
 * This article is a well-written piece about the life and accomplishments of the pioneer of American engineering, Frank Gilbreth. The lead section, while short, does a decent job of explaining his successes but I think could be more fleshed out a bit. They talk about his wife also being an industrial engineer and I personally don't think that should brought up in the lead section. The following section about his biography explains his life step by step in great detail and I think it does a very good job of giving readers and insight into who this influential man is. The addition of the picture and video in the work section are awesome and add vital details in telling the story of Frank Gilbreth's life.
 * Sources
 * Price, B. (1989). Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and the manufacture and marketing of motion study, 1908-1924. Business and economic history, 88-98.
 * Gibson, J. W., Deem, J., Einstein, J. E., & Humphreys, J. H. (2016). Applying a critical biography perspective to the work of Frank Gilbreth. Journal of Management History, 22(4), 413-436. ===
 * Gibson, J. W., Deem, J., Einstein, J. E., & Humphreys, J. H. (2016). Applying a critical biography perspective to the work of Frank Gilbreth. Journal of Management History, 22(4), 413-436. ===

Option 3

 * Kurt Lewin
 * In the article about Kurt Lewin, the lead section at the top of the page does a great job describing who this man is viewed to be and some of his major accomplishments. Moving on in the article, his early life section talks about how and where he grew up and what his life was like when he was a young boy and how his education will take him places in the world. As you move down to the career and personal life, I am beginning to see that some of the stuff in the early life tab could be brought down to here in the career portion. I think the picture placement is great and the work section backs up what was originally said in the lead section. I picked up on the part about action research because the person I picked coined the phrase action learning, and it looking at what Lewin describes, it's virtually the same.


 * Sources
 * Avison, D. E., Lau, F., Myers, M. D., & Nielsen, P. A. (1999). Action research. Communications of the ACM, 42(1), 94-97.
 * Wright, B. (2004). Kurt Lewin: A student remembers sixty-five years ago. ===
 * Sources
 * Avison, D. E., Lau, F., Myers, M. D., & Nielsen, P. A. (1999). Action research. Communications of the ACM, 42(1), 94-97.
 * Wright, B. (2004). Kurt Lewin: A student remembers sixty-five years ago. ===