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A Woman Suffering from Clinical Depression

Evaluate an article: DEPRESSION

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

  • Name of article: Depression (mood)
  • After taking a course and studying Social Psychology, I have become very interested in how Depression as a form of mental health can affect individuals in society.

Lead

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Guiding questions
  • The article Lead includes an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the topic of Depression.
  • The Lead includes a brief description of the article's major sections, as it specifically describes the content of each topic and its sub topic?
  • The Lead briefly mentions the topic of dsythymia and defines it. However, the rest of the article doesn't mention Dsythymia again or how it affects or relates to depression.
  • The Lead concise and allows the content of the article to be detailed

Lead evaluation

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Content

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Guiding questions
  • The article's content is relevant to the topic.
  • The content is up-to-date and information has be added and edited as recently as 2018.
  • There is no content that is missing or content that does not belong

Content evaluation

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Tone and Balance

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Guiding questions
  • This article appears to be neutral and there are no claims that appear to be heavily biased toward a particular position
  • While I don't personally believe that any ideas were over represented, I believe the topic of the number of illnesses and diseases associated with depression was mentioned however, it was underrepresented due to the fact that there was not much information stressed on this particular sub topic.
  • This article does not attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another.

Tone and balance evaluation

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Sources and References

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Guiding questions
  • This article has much information presented in it with many citations to support each idea and statement, which proves that the article has been backed up by a reliable secondary source of information.
  • After reviewing many of the sources, I've found each very thorough?
  • After reviewing the sources and checking a few links that work, the sources range in dates from 2002-2019. This shows that the sources are current and have been updated.

Sources and references evaluation

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Organization

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Guiding questions
  • This article is well written as it proves to be concise, clear, and easy to read?
  • No grammatical spelling errors were present in the article
  • The article is well organized and is broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic

Organization evaluation

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Images and Media

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Guiding questions
  • The article includes images that enhance understanding of the topic
  • The images are well-captioned and have definitions linked to particular words
  • The images are not shown or laid out in a visually appealing way. It is just an image of a man with untamed hair which doesn't particularly show how the image relates to depression.

Images and media evaluation

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Checking the talk page

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Guiding questions
  • There are no conversations in relation to this topic on the wiki talks page
  • This article is apart of Wiki Projects and has been used 6 times as apart of the Wiki Education Foundation.

Talk page evaluation

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Overall impressions

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Guiding questions
  • The article discusses in great detail what depression is, how its measured, its connections, the diseases that can form due to, as well as much other information
  • The article discussed many key points about depression as well as it causes and effects. However, a small section of the article discussed the historical legacy of depression in short detail. one way the article could be improved, is that it should've included more information on this topic. ?
  • In my opinion, the article stands as well-developed. With a few more adjustments and a bit more information, the article would be fully developed.

Overall evaluation

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Optional activity

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