User:Seven.legged.octopus/Evaluate an Article

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Racial pay gap in the United States - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article to better understand the importance of issue within the workplace regarding wage gaps. Although it is often talked about in my experience about women's wage gaps and the effects it has on inequality in the workplace, racial wage gaps aren't as much talked about amongst my peers. I feel as though this article is important with bringing important information such as statistics and the specifics as to which racial groups has a higher income rate versus other racial groups and how that might be affected due to all sorts of environmental factors whether it be in the workplace or for previous upbringing and available resources or lack thereof.

Evaluate the article
Article: Racial pay gap in the United States

The Lead of the article had a clear understanding of where the article is leading to and introduces the percentages of information that tells us the levels of highest to lowest income rates by race in America. It then goes onto explain the possible components of why this is an issue in American society and how it relates to the Civil Rights acts considering the inequality within the workplace. Overall, this Lead is clear, concise and to the point, considering all information that needs to be addressed.

When looking at the content that is being addressed within the article, all information that needs to be addressed is included in the article and shows a neutral and unbiased tone throughout the article comparing and contrasting statistics from historical facts of wages and possible major differences that may cause some individuals to get less opportunities than others. They also focus on the comparison between today's statistics and numbers of income between families that come from different racial backgrounds.

Sensing the tone of the article it seems to be for the most part, neutral. However, when looking at the specific categories regarding, African American, Asian, Hispanic and Native American, it seems as though it very heavily focused on African American Citizen information, which is very important, however, goes down in importance of amount of information shared when looking at the Native American and Asian Citizen information. Coming into this article, even though the information we are looking at should be leaning more towards the perspective and experiences of African American citizens, I understood from the lead that the information that would be represented would and should equally represent informatively all races that are mentioned.

Looking at the information given to the reader, it seems as though all information given in the articles, including images and infographics, are cited with a secondary source. Although, the information given in the article read does not include all of the information given within the sources provided, it does reflect the important information that is being talked about when it comes to the wage gaps of America. Some sources, however, are not as current as I would have liked to see range from the historical information of the 1960's and to what the author considered current which would be the 1990s to the 2020's. One thing to point out is that the sources used within the article are written by all different types of authors with different backgrounds. Although most of the sources seem to be credible, some articles that are included as secondary sources such as surveys done could be easily replaced with a journal done on the subject or by the census information gathered by the government for record keeping of each year. Some sources linked to the article, no longer work with the citations provided in the second column of sources provided.

Although the article is very well organized and breaks down information in categorical order of race, there are many grammatical issues I have found throughout the entirety of the article. For example, some information provided could have been shortened into one or two sentences or could have been reworded into a simpler phrase, so it is easier and smoother to read. Images included into the article, do not seem to be copyrighted, however, the captions included underneath are a little confusing. However, they are very neatly placed into the article and are clear and concise to read.

My overall impression on this article is that it has a lot of good information that can added onto and continued to be given more thought into other parts of the article. The grammar and explanation of some of the information included could be worded in a better way. Some sentences could have used better transitions between to get the information across better. I think this article could be completed a little more and I feel as though it is at about a 90% completion.