User:Skdahlk/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Visual communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because my major is advertising and I think that visual communication is a big part of that. Visual communication is important because it gives people the ability to share ideas and information through different mediums.

Evaluate the article
The lead section does a good job of introducing the topic. The first sentence explains what visual communication is and then in the following sentences, it gives some background behind visual communication. The lead section is written in a neutral tone, it's not trying to sway peoples opinions in any way. The content is relevant to visual communication and includes up-to-date information. They bring in a few different authors, but it isn't a wide variety. I don't think there are any marginalized authors included. All of the links that I checked are working links. The page is well written, but it does jump around very quickly. I don't see any spelling or grammatical errors. It's broken down into broad sections. I think they could be narrowed down and include less information. There are two images on the page, the captions don't really share any information about them. All images fall in the copyright regulations. I think they could have made the images larger or added more images so that the page would be more visually appealing. The visual communication page is apart of three wiki projects: graphic design, media and systems. I don't think this page does a good job of writing towards an audience that doesn't know the information, like we talked about in class. It uses a lot of jargon, which can be hard to understand as someone who isn't familiar with the topic.