User:Wooloo 246/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Digital rhetoric

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Besides being the article assigned for the task, it's important to learn about digital rhetoric, especially as we're slowly becoming more and more connected to digital spaces.

Evaluate the article
The lead starts off well but has issues with redundancy, with it later going on to impose a second-person point of view and casual tone. The image is a stock photo and it cannot be claimed that the person in the photo is a "student", and the caption is wordy.

While the article is in-depth, it is far too wordy. There are too many subsections and those tend to be given equal weight, contributing to the wordiness. The major exception to this is the politics subsection, which takes a good chunk of the article. Some paragraphs, such as the one on digital rhetoric's "scope of influence", lack any sources. There are also issues of it being read like an essay instead of an encyclopedia, such as mentioning authors by their full name or citing page numbers.

I would not say the article is "poorly" developed because it has a lot of good ideas, but it is in dire need of refinement.