User:Rosa Ashton/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Academic discipline

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

This article was chosen because academic discipline is an important topic to understand when it comes to world of academics, specifically because it generally refers to the parameters that must be considered and established when doing any type of academic work. It matters most notably when writing review articles, conducting research articles/journals, as well as when referencing or citing other academic's work in your own. The initial impression obtained from this article was that it had a very clear, easy to understand concept of what academic discipline was and that it provided some very distinct but important subcategories of the different disciplines that make up or comprise academic discipline as a whole.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead Section
The lead provides an introductory sentence that clearly and concisely describes the article's topic, and includes a brief description of the major sections of the article. The sub-topics of the bibliometric studies of disciplines, functions and criticism as well as communities of academic disciplines were not included in the lead but discussed in throughout the body of the article. Overall the lead was was good somewhat overly detailed.

Content
The content of the article was all mostly relevant to the topic but had some aspects that were not the most relevant or necessarily up-to-date. The sub-section of the functions and criticisms does not necessarily belong as a result of it being out-of-date but also because his book discussing the topic was not exactly supported by other academic scholars. The content does not really include topics related to historic underrepresented populations or topics.

Tone and Balance
This article is somewhat neutral, because while it does include a small section discussing criticism the article predominately focuses on universities and colleges that enforce or apply academic disciplines by discussing what specific departments or faculties use it as well as communities outside of academia that apply academic disciplines. The criticism discussed in the article was underrepresented because there was only one reference or example of someone having an opposing opinion about the topic, and it lacks any other mention of people supporting his book on the topic. As previously mentioned minority or fringed viewpoints were barely discussed or rather lacking in this article. The article does not necessarily persuade the reader of one position but does lack information of opposing viewpoints.

Sources and References
Not all the facts mentioned or discussed are backed-up by any sources, only some are supported by reliable resources. Most of the sources provided are thorough. Very few of the sources are current, with some being less than a decade old to others being more than 20 years old. The sources are composed by a diverse number of people that are all specialized in different fields, faculties or departments, along with the reference of the french philosopher, who had a very different viewpoint of the topic. There are some better sources that are more up-to-date, such as impact of academic discipline.

Organization and Writing Quality
The article was easy to read and understand, there appeared to be no spelling or grammatically errors and all the sub-topics that were discussed were formatted in well-organized sub-sections.

Images and Media
The article lacks any visual images or media.

Talk Page Discussion
Not much conversations were discussed, there was some mention about the article being neutral with no bias. There was another question asking why high school students and below were not included in the discussion of academic discipline. It appears that the article is a level 5 vital article and rated as start-class. Wikipedia discusses more about the history and who applies the concept of academic discipline, while we've only discussed it in the context of making sure to cite or reference sources that we use to support facts or information.

Reference
Zadravec, K.A., Kočar, S. The impact of academic disciplines on a constructively aligned internationalised curriculum. High Educ (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01008-w