User:Vebrown/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The article I am evaluating is English studies.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose this article because it is a topic that relates to this class and it was suggested that I evaluate something that relates to my course. This article matters because so many people are required to take at least some English courses and I think it is important to have information about things that are so involved in the basic education system. As well as English being an important subject itself, I mean its how people learn to read, write, and speak properly. My preliminary impression was that it had a lot of sources and links to other things but it wasn't as developed as I thought it would be. Considering how much it is involved with people's lives I thought it would have more work done on it.

Evaluate the article

 * The lead section is informative however, it is a bit wordy with the lists of what English studies can include. I would making the lead more concise and then making a section about what subjects English can be over.
 * In the lead there is a large list of sub departments of an English degree but later it has a section that lists fields in English, I feel like these are similar things and the list in the lead should be relocated.
 * English studies is not just at the college level. More information about English in places like High School and younger is needed.
 * If you mention that English studies are in Britain as well earlier on, then you need to add more information on how it works for them. A brief sentence in a section is insufficient.
 * The article does a good job at keeping a neutral tone about this topic.
 * The amount of hyperlinks in the beginning is overwhelming. With a topic such as this which branches out into so many other topics it will have a lot of links but maybe cut some out or relocate where you put the link so they aren't all in the same spot.
 * Lacks some proper citations for all the subjects mentioned, specifically incline citations.
 * I think this article could be organized a bit differently. It has good things but maybe a section about schooling earlier than High School and I think it should be chronological, putting the work about an English major after high school.
 * I also think more information could be added to the history section so it isn't just about English in college level, which would then need to be its own section.
 * This article only includes one picture and I think to make it look better more should be added.
 * The talking behind the scenes is mostly discussions about how to article needs revision and modification.
 * The article is part of the WikiProjects of Education, Literature, and Writing.
 * This article is rated Start-Class by these projects.
 * Overall I think this article has a good start but definitely needs some work.
 * This articles strengths are its knowledge on English Studies in college but has some weakness about other school levels.
 * I would assess this article's completeness as being under-developed. It isn't like this article doesn't have good information on it but it definitely needs more to be fully developed.