User:Zr-gpp-1/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Environmental issues in Haiti

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I've chosen to evaluate this article since it is related to my PE that is located in Haiti and the various issues affecting the country currently when it comes to environmental damage. Whether that damage is man-made or not (which most is) it gives an introduction into the various ways the locals have been affected the most.

Evaluate the article
From reading the first sentence it explains which subtopics are going to be covered in the following paragraphs and this can guide the reader if they want to keep reading or not and what to expect. However, in the last sentence of the article it does mention about policies that experts are hoping Haiti will adopt in order to address climate change, but throughout the article it does not mention what those policies are or at least introduce the reader to the most popular suggestions from experts. I feel the last sentence can be done without. Most of the issues brought up in the article are good introduction paragraphs but they do not go too in-depth and I think if the reader wants to research more they can do so by checking out the resources for that given paragraph. There is many sources used throughout the article, the majority of them being from academic journals or government sources. None of them look older than 10 years, which means it is up-to date with the latest research on environmental issues in Haiti. I clicked on 5 random references out of the 20 and they were all working links.

I did not see any spelling errors on the article. The images used were not offensive and did not show the Haitians as being passive, it did not even use their face but rather the place in which they live in like the city and near the beach. The satellite image of the border between Haiti and Dominican Republic shows the extensive deforestation of Haiti because on the Dominican Republic side it is very green and the other side is only brown. And one can talk about deforestation all day but images does a great job of showing how something needs to be done about it now.

Suggestions:The paragraphs are very short and can be extended a bit more for example the first paragraph of "Charcoal" section only has 3 sentences and there's so little about it that it does not do that section justice. From my understanding diseases are not capitalized, but "Cholera" is capitalized every time it is mentioned. The article overall is 8/10