User:Pfützensturm/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Listening)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because listening is an important component in classroom communication and interpersonal relations in general. My first impression was that the article was well written. However, after going through the evaluation questions I found several items that could be improved.

Evaluate the article

 * Tone and balance:
 * Regrading the wiki categorization of this article: I find it difficult to understand how this article represents an editor's personal feelings, or how it constitutes an "original argument about a topic". For the most part, I find this article neutral. That said, I assume that certain words could be replaced, such as "useful" or "essential" in the following sentence: "Listening can be a useful skill for different problems, but it is essential to resolve conflict". Suggestion: Listening is a skill for resolving problems.
 * Sources and references:
 * Content such as "Dharma teachings" could receive further explanations or a link.
 * Also "someone" in "As someone recently stated, ""We should listen harder than we speak"" would need a reference.
 * Reference number 9 "Schmitt, Norbert. "An Introduction to Applied Linguistics": 180–187" needs a publication year.
 * Organization and writing quality:
 * The article is easy to understand, divided into logical sections, and free of spelling errors.
 * Talk page:
 * The article has two substantial comments for improvement, one from March 2019, the other dating September 2020. I cannot tell whether all suggestions from March 2019 have been adopted. But the peer reviewer's comment on avoiding words, such as "important" might not have been taken into consideration since the article still reads "Active listening is important in bringing changes in the speaker's perspective" (emphasis added).
 * The second comment has not been adopted either since citation #18 still contains the erroneous page number 14.

Comments from Dr. Vetter
Nice evaluation here! - I believe we talked about this article and I gave you the 'green light' to work on it if this is something you are interested in developing. It could certainly use the class - and needs revision in terms of style/tone for neutrality, and development of content and new sections. It looks like your classmate is also interested in working on this one, so perhaps you could collaborate together? I can help you all figure out a sandbox page to draft additions and changes. It would be interesting to have a section that discussion listening as rhetorical; as well as a section on listening in different cultural contexts.

I really liked your revision of "Listening can be a useful skill for different problems, but it is essential to resolve conflict". Suggestion: "Listening is a skill for resolving problems." - that is a difference in terms of Neutrality.

I agree with all of your assessments, overall.

Again, this would be an excellent topic to work on and I could help you with some sources should you choose to focus on this.

Best, Dr. Vetter DarthVetter (talk) 19:10, 14 February 2022 (UTC)