User:TiffaniHiett/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
https://en.wikipedia/wiki/communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is directly related to my course topic in class. This article discusses many different aspects of communication including the types, how it is used, and what prevents communication. This is an important article for giving a very basic run down of communication and what it means to communicate within different settings and types of relationships. This article is very detailed and clear while stilling keeping it concise and easy to read.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of this article seems to be nicely developed, however, a younger audience or someone who is not academically developed, may not understand the introductory sentence. This sentence is meant to be clear but it instead is a quote from John Durham Peters, a media historian. The rest of the lead seems to consist of only the major points of the entire article without including unnecessary jargon or information that is left out of the rest of the article.

The content section of the article is relevant to the topic of communication because it includes all of the major principles such as types; origin; different models; the things that could prevent communication; and communication between nonhuman beings. There is a 'warning banner' stating that the article contains instructions, advice, or how-to content which I did not find, but what I did find was that the 'Barriers to effectiveness' section seemed a lot like a scientific journal with language that the everyday reader may not understand.

Trying to read it from the point-of-view of an everyday reader the article did seem neutral and purely informative while making sure that any persuasive talk is left out to ensure that the reader isn't being pushed to believe something about communication in a biased way.

With 64 references in the reference section, it appears they all work except for one, which is a missing or empty link to a source. Aside from this, the sources seem to be from a very wide range of authors with a wide range of job titles. There were seven different images used for this article, all relevant to the topic, and all with clear captions as to what the image was displaying.

The article is broken down into categories based on relevant topics in communication, then into sub-topics within. This is great because it made the article very easy to read and follow. Aside from that Barriers to Effectiveness section, the article was concise with no grammar or spelling mistakes (that I noticed).

Along with what seems to be one troll post on the Talk Page there are also a few others who have evaluated this article. The article as a whole has been given a C-rating and is a part of 10 different WikiProjects. I believe that the only difference in the way it's discussed on Wikipedia vs in class is that the article is short and to the point. This article tells the reader the basics of would you would need to know but in order to truly understand the topic, you would have to go into much greater detail.

I found the overall article to be sufficient in its discussion on communication. The biggest strength was the organization, which made it very easy to read. However, there were a few times I noticed it sounding too scientific for the everyday reader to understand.