User:Zoemarrott/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title Oakland, California
 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.
 * "This article is written unbiasedly and neutrally about the city of Oakland, California. The article is easy to navigate through with the help of the Table of Contents. Each claim is sourced and backed by a citation. The sources and citations used are for the most part reliable, but the article does include some sources from magazines or newspapers as well. Most of the conversations in the Talk Page include either updating information, restructuring some of the information already given, and discussions of new and relevant terminology of the Oakland area (e.g. calling Oakland, Oaktown, was argued as being outdated and the contributor suggested that the 'new' terminology more commonly used to refer to the city is 'The Town')."
 * "This article is written unbiasedly and neutrally about the city of Oakland, California. The article is easy to navigate through with the help of the Table of Contents. Each claim is sourced and backed by a citation. The sources and citations used are for the most part reliable, but the article does include some sources from magazines or newspapers as well. Most of the conversations in the Talk Page include either updating information, restructuring some of the information already given, and discussions of new and relevant terminology of the Oakland area (e.g. calling Oakland, Oaktown, was argued as being outdated and the contributor suggested that the 'new' terminology more commonly used to refer to the city is 'The Town')."


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Option 2

 * Article title : Reading comprehension
 * Article Evaluation
 * "Overall, this article was written unbiasedly and neutrally, but it did lack some key information such as citations, a breadth of knowledge, and more concise evidence/facts. For the most part, the sources that were cited, were reliable and pretty up to date (except for a few published in the 1970s)."
 * "Overall, this article was written unbiasedly and neutrally, but it did lack some key information such as citations, a breadth of knowledge, and more concise evidence/facts. For the most part, the sources that were cited, were reliable and pretty up to date (except for a few published in the 1970s)."


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"The report from the National Reading Panel, hosted by a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations detailed various statements denounced by different senators regarding the American education system and its success in providing literacy and comprehension to students in poverty."



Option 3

 * Article title Elementary school (United States)
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

"The article was written neutrally and unbiasedly about Elementary Schools in the United States. Although the article briefly noted how many elementary schools in the United States are public and private, it would have been nice perhaps to have two separate pages about each, since they are not necessarily governed or run the same. Not every claim remarked in this Wikipedia article was cited, such as a few remarks about the No Child Left Behind Legislation. The citations included in the article do seem reliably sourced. Most of the conversation on the Talk Page only included various modificiations to different sources/links and updates to the overall page structure."


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"The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 mandated a federal order to overlook state's and school district's viability in complying with their Adequate Yearly Progress towards proficiency. The legislation allows states and school districts to define their term 'proficiency,' decide which tests they will use, and the minimum requirement to achieve their definition of 'proficient.'"



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