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Article Evaluation 1 - Distracted Driving

 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Yes, this article even includes legal consequences and situations when distracted driving causes a major issue, like an accident, or when a driver is caught, pulled over and ticketed. Is there anything that distracted you? No
 * Is any information out of date? A lot of the stats are pretty recent, highlighting percentages from 2015 and 2017. There is a stat in the section, Consequences, that states a fact from 2013, however it is the last statistic after the ones from 2015 and 2017, when it should have probably been added before the more recents. Is anything missing that could be added? The accident risk assessment, section could be edited to be a little more detailed.
 * What else could be improved? Remembering research I have done this past summer, it could be beneficial to include a sub-section on Multitasking as well to help explain how the brain is functioning, within the section: Effects on the Brain. But I do not see it as absolutely necessary.

Article Assignment - Sex and Gender Distinction
Evaluation:

Almost everything directly relates to the subject of Sex and Gender Distinction, there is a sub-category called 'criticism' under "Gender". This would benefit from more detail about what kind of criticism they are referring to.

Adding to an Article: Oct. 7, 2018
-- Transgender people also decide if they want to surgically change their bodies and/or start taking hormones. They also have the choice to alter their gender identity through the legal system.

Transgender and genderqueer section
Transgender people experience a mismatch between their gender identity or gender expression, and their assigned sex. Transgender people are sometimes called transsexual if they desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another. Transgender people have the option of hormone therapy that may lead to surgeries if they so choose.

Genderqueer is another word that members of the LGBTQ+ community uses to identify who they are. Genderqueer is used when someone knows that their gender is not subjective to only man or woman gender identities, but they feel their gender changes from day to day life.

Final Article- Dec. 5, 2018
Transgender Representation in the Media

Transgender representation in online and offline media is important and beneficial to the transgender community as a whole, especially young developing transgender people who are figuring out their true gender identity. However, representation from the transgender community in the media continues to be lacking. According to the article, How Transgender People Experience the Media, written by, Trans Media Watch, a study was conducted among 256 people in the United Kingdom, 6 of whom specific identified as "not transgender" but having close family member who identify as transgender. A respondent from the study stated, " I think that the media has a great power to foster discussion and understanding," regarding to fiction and non-fiction works in media. Positive and negative transgender representation stunts a discussion within society, and helps to educate the world surrounding the transgender community on how to treat transgender individuals and how to better understand their journeys.

Transgender media coverage tends to stick to a single side of transgender experience, and only one factor of a person who is transgender, and that happens to be the status of their genitalia. Talk show hosts often find ways to ask types of questions regarding one's genital status, when the focus should be on every other aspect of a transgender person's life. Young transgender and genderqueer people especially rely on social media to engage and connect with other young transgender and genderqueer people in order to not feel alone. Social media allows many people to feel apart of a community when they do not have an inclusive community in their everyday life. Social media provides emotional support, answers to questions, and a generally safe space to share their thoughts and experiences with other members of the transgender community.

Paragraph of Changes
Throughout this writing assignment I have added information on transgender coverage in the media, different ways people choose to express themselves as a transgender person (through clothes, self gender identification, and surgery), and what it means to be transgender. I have added citations from all the website articles I used for information regarding this topic. I believe my group members also contributed to the history of sex and gender distinction under gender, and created a new topic to potentially add to the article as well.