Talk:Agency

From Geography

1. Relevance

Rating: 8

Comments: This course deals with the question if actors can make their own decisions. Thereby agency is an important concept.

2. Well-written

a) well-written: its prose is engaging, even brilliant, and of a professional standard; the prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct;

Rating: 8

Comments: it is easy to read and written well

b) comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context.

Rating: 9

Comments: I thinks the explenation of the concept agency is very clear

3. well-researched

a) it provides references to all sources of information following the APA guidelines;

Rating: 5

Comments: The APA guidelines is well respected. But Barker (2005) is not called in the ‘references’

b) it provides in-line citations (including page numbers) from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the APA guidelines.

Rating: 10

Comments: No critique

4. Broad in its coverage

a) it addresses the main aspects of the topic;

Rating: 8

Comments: Everything is clear when I read it. There arise no questions

b) it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail.

Rating: 8 Comments: Yes it does.

5. Neutral

Rating: 6 Comments: The concept agency emphasizes anyway only one part of the story. So that is not neutral. But at the end the concept structure is added. So that is good and makes it more neutral.

6. Stable

Rating: 6

Comments: I cannot judge this point very well. But since there are only two ‘contributors’ it seems stable.

7. Well-structured

a) a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections;

Rating: 5

Comments: There is no good structure in this text. The reader is not prepared in the text.

b) appropriate structure: a system of hierarchical section headings and a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents.

Rating: 8

Comments: Nothing is missing.

c) categories: is the entry categorized in a correct way? (Which categories are missing?)

Rating: 8

Comments: Yes

8.Illustrated

a) images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content;

Rating: 0

Comments: There are no illustrations.

b) images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions. Rating: /

Comments: There are no illustrations

9. Length

Rating: 5

Comments: It is a short text