User:Teresa Michella Da Silva/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Liberal arts education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
the other articles and their titles seem to be very interesting to me however this article is specifically related to me. This is because I'm currently on a liberal arts college and it would be interesting to truly find out where liberal arts education stems from and Howard is affecting my own name but many people today. Reading about the history and the different arts that helped formulate liberal arts as a whole is particularly intriguing.

Lead Section
what's my reading introduction I believe that it can be less wordy and more concise. It seems to be getting around the bush and to be a bit descriptive more than informative. Some improvement could be made in the introduction on defining the major sections of the article. I expected to see something that would discuss all of the articles parameters such as history given that it has a very large part in the article and the overall formation of liberal arts education. I appreciate that the lead includes information available hours in America, which is present in the rest of the article.

Content
the content appears to be biased as the major topics such as liberal arts in Europe and Asia are unconsciously placed to be compared to the USA. It was refreshing however, to note that the article gives several examples within the respective continents. I understand that it is based on western liberal arts, but that too has expanded to other parts of the world. It would be refreshing to note the presence of these institutions in other continents as well. Apart from that, this article is up-to-date.

Tone and Balance
As previously mentioned, this article seems to be biased and sways more towards the side of the USA. This is because I see more examples that relay back to the USA more. I noticed this more particularly within the example, "very often the role of liberal arts education in undergraduate programs at universities is reduced compared to the US educational system." I noticed more throughout the article which unfortunately enabled me to understand liberal arts education from a United States point of view. I definitely notice a decrease in contact with some other headings such as Asia and Australia even though there's so much that could be said about these places with regards to liberal arts.

Sources and references
a lot of the content that I saw was backed up by a lot sources, however, I saw a lot of information that required citations. Meaning that information is probably added, which decreases the reliability of the article. A lot of these sources show preferred members of society including white men. To increase the validity of this article, it would be ideal to include other people including women, and BIPOC people. Apart from that, a lot of the sources were able to open once I tried to access them.

Organizing and writing quality
The different sections of this article confused me a lot and made me question the importance of them. I saw that one section was about secondary school and another was about Europe. This makes me feel as though secondary school plays an equally important role as Europe. Personally, I believe that the secondary school heading and content could have been merged together with the "History" or "In The United States" section as a subsection instead of making a whole title, giving it two sentences and labeling it as educational content. Regardless, this article is clearly written shows no grammatical mistakes.

Images and Media
One thing I appreciate is the use of images within this article, as a present the need to relay information through different mediums and to appreciate the historical making of this topic. Some of the images are more thoroughly described than others, but they all have titles, links and credit the authors which is important. The images are laid out to fit the different sections that they are placed in to provide further insight and visual aid for the readers to understand.

Talk Page Discussion
There aren't enough conversations within the talk page for a topic to reoccur and stand out. What was interesting to see was that the article is apart of five wiki projects. This includes WikiProject Literature, WikiProject Mathematics, WikiProject Philosophy, WikiProject Science, and WikiProject Higher Education.

Overall impressions
This is a published article with clearly defined sections and subsections. It has pictures as a visual aid and lacks grammatical errors. The article can be improved by inviting more people from different parts of the world to edit and make their own contributions to remove the bias that this article comes with. Not only will it be removing the bias, but hopefully it would promote more diverse editors to incorporate sources from different backgrounds as well. This article is heading in the right direction however, it is currently under developed and requires a lot of attention.