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Academic Disciplines

This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.

• Discipline(Academia) (Discipline (academia))
• There was a lack of information on this subject, which caught my eye. I am also double majoring in Multi-disciplinary design, and I wanted to learn more about academic disciplines and what that entails.

Guiding questions

• Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? Yes, there is a good lead for this article.
• Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? The lead describes the subject but it doesn't include the break down of the article. As in, what will be mentioned in the paragraphs to follow the lead. However later down it does have a table of contents box.
• Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? No it does not, it only includes what is listed in the table of contents box.
• Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? It is concise.

Content

Guiding questions

• Is the article's content relevant to the topic? It is relevant and well sourced.
• Is the content up-to-date? Yes, it was last updated October 30th 2019
• Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? Not that I can tell.

Cross-disciplinary[edit]

Cross-disciplinary knowledge is that which explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another. Common examples of cross-disciplinary approaches are studies of the physics of music or the politics of literature.

I think there could be more information found on this topic.

Tone and Balance

Guiding questions

Multidisciplinary[edit]

Main article: Multidisciplinary approach

Multidisciplinary knowledge is associated with more than one existing academic discipline or profession.

A multidisciplinary community or project is made up of people from different academic disciplines and professions. These people are engaged in working together as equal stakeholders in addressing a common challenge. A multidisciplinary person is one with degrees from two or more academic disciplines. This one person can take the place of two or more people in a multidisciplinary community. Over time, multidisciplinary work does not typically lead to an increase or a decrease in the number of academic disciplines. One key question is how well the challenge can be decomposed into subparts, and then addressed via the distributed knowledge in the community. The lack of shared vocabulary between people and communication overhead can sometimes be an issue in these communities and projects. If challenges of a particular type need to be repeatedly addressed so that each one can be properly decomposed, a multidisciplinary community can be exceptionally efficient and effective.^{[citation needed]}

There are many examples of a particular idea appearing in different academic disciplines, all of which came about around the same time. One example of this scenario is the shift from the approach of focusing on sensory awareness of the whole, "an attention to the 'total field'", a "sense of the whole pattern, of form and function as a unity", an "integral idea of structure and configuration". This has happened in art (in the form of cubism), physics, poetry, communication and educational theory. According to Marshall McLuhan, this paradigm shift was due to the passage from the era of mechanization, which brought sequentiality, to the era of the instant speed of electricity, which brought simultaneity.

Multidisciplinary approaches also encourage people to help shape the innovation of the future. The political dimensions of forming new multidisciplinary partnerships to solve the so-called societal Grand Challenges were presented in the Innovation Union and in the European Framework Programme, the Horizon 2020 operational overlay. Innovation across academic disciplines is considered the pivotal foresight of the creation of new products, systems, and processes for the benefit of all societies' growth and wellbeing. Regional examples such as Biopeople and industry-academia initiatives in translational medicine such as SHARE.ku.dk in Denmark provides the evidence of the successful endeavour of multidisciplinary innovation and facilitation of the paradigm shift.^{[citation needed]}

• Is the article neutral? The article is mostly neutral however in the paragraphs I listed above it is hard to know the narrative of the information written, ie. what source it came from. This helps explain why there are citations that are needed.
• Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? There isn't a heavy bias, just confusion as to where some of the information has come from.
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? Not sure.
• Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? no.

Sources and References

Guiding questions

• Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? No they are not. There are still sources needed for the information given.
• Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? For the most part yes, however there can be more done in this region.
• Are the sources current? Yes for the sources they have, they are current.
• Check a few links. Do they work? The links work.

Organization

Guiding questions

• Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? It is very easy to read.
• Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? There aren't any spelling errors.
• Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? Yes it is well organized, just needs more information. Right now it has the framework.

Images and Media

Guiding questions

• Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? There are no images.
• Are images well-captioned? NA
• Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? NA
• Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? NA

Checking the talk page

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Talk:Discipline (academia)

• What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There are a few revisions on the talk page for the article. Mainly its people claiming for major revisions on the topic itself.
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? It is tagged as a wiki project, but that is about it. There isn't too much further on this
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? We haven't really talked about this topic in class. However It is a good article to look at to help me better understand the editing side of wikipedia.

Overall impressions

Guiding questions

• What is the article's overall status? Incomplete. It is at a start-class rating with a low importance value given on the talk page.
• What are the article's strengths? Where there is information it is well organized, and clearly inputted.
• How can the article be improved? More sources, more information written, images, and just more editing.
• How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? It is underdeveloped, however the information that is there is well done, in terms of being very clear.

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