User:Wolfpack3810/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Nonverbal Communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I decided to chose this topic because this is something that I have always wanted to understand better. We constantly talk about communication but we really do not know how important nonverbal communication is from day to day. Although I will be evaluating this article it will allow me to closely read all of the information provided. Therefor I will have a much deeper understanding as a whole. My first impression of this article was that it looked fairly in depth and that it must be a high ranking or well worked on page in the Wikipedian world.

Evaluate the article
When starting off with the lead section in an article you look for the very first sentence to give you a very brief overview of what will be talked about. After looking at the first topic sentence for nonverbal communication I can say the article did a great job with this aspect. The rest of the lead section or introduction illustrated to readers all of the main topics that would be talked about throughout the article. There was not any topics talked about in the lead section that did not appear later on in the article. The lead explains or summarizes the article just enough without being overly detailed. As a reader it makes me want to keep going so that I can get a better understanding of all of the information that is presented to me.

All of the content in the article is related and provides a better understanding for the topic as a whole. There are a few sections where I thought there could be a little more information added just because there's only one paragraph present. Sections including adapters and symbolic in my opinion just to make the article that much stronger. All of the content is up to date and all belongs because of the flow. With the content that they have all of the sections and topics flow together very nicely which makes the article very easy to read.

The tone throughout the article all seems to be neutral. There was not one time where in my head I had to second guess myself that the page was trying to persuade me in one direction. All of the information comes from a neutral point so that the information can be taken as a fact rather than an opinion.

After going through the sources and really digging deep most of them were in check. Only a few did not work when you clicked on them. So, with such a big article this could be one point where the article could definitely get stronger. Also some of the sources that were cited in the references page did not seem reliable. They were not academic articles or peer reviewed journals. Yes, there can still be good sources that are not either of these two options but when going through an article for the first time the information given could definitely be easier to believe. But going along with the actual sources themselves there is a very vast range of authors and websites that contribute to a better understanding of nonverbal communication.

The article itself is very well written and all of the language used is very academic. With the language used it sounds very professional but at the same time you can easily understand it. The topics are all split up so if you are looking for a certain section it is easy to find. This also allowed the article to flow very well and made it just that easier to read. When reading the article I did not notice any grammar or spelling errors.

The images used throughout the article give the reader a better understanding of what exactly is trying to be explained. They all are well captioned so that you know it is not just a random picture from the internet. The captions give an exact explanation of what the picture is pointing to in regards to the section it is located in. The layout which I believe is the most important aspect of putting media into an academic article, is very well done by all of the contributors. All of the pics are located right next to the section that it is referencing.

When looking through the talk page there is not much discussion but when I looked for the assessment on the article it came up as an unassessed article. Which is very surprising because the article seems very well put together. I will continue to keep an eye on the statistics because I do have an interest in this topic.

My overall impressions on this article was that I was impressed. But it could still use some work in some of the sections where topics can be discussed a little more. Also, there are citations missing so if these changes are made I believe the article will be outstanding. A key strength of this article would be how well put together it is. It flows very nice which makes it easy to read. The article's status is in very good condition at this point in time that this evaluation is being made.