United States Air Force Pararescue Indoctrination Course
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Article Evaluation
The article I chose to review is an article on Tom Clancy. A few noted thoughts to this article are as follows, in paragraph format.
The page does, overall, a good job of describing Tom Clancy as a whole. The author(s) of the page clearly distinguish between and describe his personal life and his professional life, and detail his major accomplishments and work produced in a thorough format. There are a few small problems, namely the lack of citations in the intro paragraph of his overview, and small other non-cited pieces throughout the page. The article is from a neutral perspective throughout, and does a decent job providing detail on his life without going overboard on one part or another. On a technical point, the article lacks resources to which it points in the article (e.g. linking to non-existent "non-fiction" section in the page). The main things I would change about this article would be to add more citations to the areas they are lacking, and perhaps provide links/details about the non-literature that he produced.
Potential Project Two Topics
1) Pararescue
The United States Air Force Pararescue already has a Wikipedia page. I believe I could add more detail, specifically about the selection course, tools for training, psychological evaluations of people who pass the course, and the training course as a whole.
2) Indoctrination Course (Selection course for USAF Pararescue)
The Indoctrination Course for USAF Pararescue does not have a Wikipedia page yet. As a corollary, there are Wikipedia pages for Navy SEALs, Army Special Operations soldiers, and others. I know of documents that detail specific attributes and goals of the course. Unfortunately, this might not be a hugely detailed page, as a function of the lack of reliable information about the course (although it appears seemingly infinitely in message boards and other non-verifiable sources across the internet).
This Wikipedia article has a lot of information, but is not well organized. I could perhaps add additional levels of organization and flush it out certain sections through providing additional studies. I don't know of a lot of professional research about this topic, but I'm sure I could find some!
4) Judith Hall (Northeastern University Distinguished Professor)
Northeastern's own Judith (Judy) Hall does not yet have a Wikipedia page. Dr. Judith Hall has contributed much to the field of psychology, specifically in the subfields of nonverbal communication and interpersonal perception. For the most part, this page will be able to talk about her professional experiences, although her being a Northeastern professor could provide an interesting advantage of not simply conducting online research — I would likely be able to get a quick sit-down interview with her near the end of the project, for details that are lacking from the page.