User:Gracearmes

Bio

About Me

I'm a Wikipedia editor who likes to study math and science. I enjoy spending time outside and cooking in the kitchen. I hope to pursue a career in biology or medicine. I really enjoy the area of analyzing cells--many important advances that have been made to comprehending cells have followed directly after a new advancement in technology. Some other things about me: I enjoy going hiking as well as participating in all kinds of volleyball.

My Wikipedia Interests

If I continue to edit in Wikipedia, I'll edit pages about cell function and division, as well as articles on plants and animals local to the Pacific Northwest. I will predominantly just make small changes and edits to facts and information seen in these texts. In hopes to expand my knowledge I might even look into editing documents that revolves around medicine, specifically Oncology: the study of tumors and cancer.

Article Evaluation

Cells have been something that grabbed my attention for quite some time now, especially plant cells. Plants have this amazing ability to capture sunlight and transform it into food for them.  With hopes of helping Wikipedia produce the best possible scope on plant cells, so I visited the plants cells article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: it's lack of up to date sources, very extensive variety of information, and it's helpful use of wiki-links.

Citations

The citations are not as current as possible. As I was reading through the list of sources used I noticed that most sources are from the mid to late 1900s with only a few sources being from the 2000s. I'm sure there are many recent studies and more current research that could be added to this article to make it more reliable. By having such old sources it makes it hard for this article to be entirely reliable, due to the fact that science is always changing and new things are constantly being discovered.

Sources

All of the citations used in this article come from well known credible sources and organizations. Almost all of these sources come from research that was conducted by either Universities, scientists or popular branches of companies in this field. Since the article was backed by reliable information, it boosts the credibility of everything that it says.

Grammar

This article is written very well and with it's use of wiki-links the vocab was very easy to follow along with. Regarding plant cells there were a bunch of new terminology used, but not once did the article ever get confusing or overbearing. While reading if I came across anything that I had never heard of there was always a wiki-link that I could use to help build my understanding and keep up with easily.

Conclusion

All in all, I'd rate this article as "good." The overall variety of information was impressive but due to these sources being quite dated it makes it hard to determine if that information is still reliable. The citations that were used on this page came from very dependable sources and companies, which increases the overall credibility of this article. There was also an abundance of wiki-links used which made it very easy to understand an follow along with.