User:Vivmm13/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Social work

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose to evaluate this article because I am genuinely interested in the field of social work. This field matters because it is can improve public heath, physically, mentally and emotionally. I think this field needs to be talked about more because it does more than just take care of foster children.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section of this article does well at articulating what the overall premise of the field of social work is. It gives a summary of what exactly the field is and what areas of work practice social work services. It also gives a brief history of the field as well. The overall content of this article describes everything from the history of social work and how it began to the way that social work is used in various fields. It also gives a list of what disciplines that use social work as well as giving a description of the actual profession of social work. This article is written from a neutral point of view with only stating the facts about social work. Each viewpoint is given an equal amount of content in the description. Reliable sources were used to write this article, a few of the links that I tested out were accurate and directed me to the source that was cited. Overall the article was well written in terms that I believe will allow anyone reading to understand. I was able to more knowledge about the field through reading this article and I learned more about the history of this field and what exactly can be done by becoming a social worker.