Wikipedia:Peer review/Mechanical Aptitude/archive1
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This peer review discussion has been closed.
I've listed this article for peer review because this is a class project, please feel free to review and provide suggestions.
Thanks, Coxdc (talk) 19:50, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- I'll do this. --Noleander (talk) 18:55, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
- Comments from Noleander
- Stray quote mark: " ... female score differential." " That quote mark on the end is wrong?
- Oh, wait, it looks like the entire lead paragraph is one huge quote. That is not appropriate: You have to write the lead yourself, summarizing what the sources say.
- Lead: "According to Paul Muchinsky in his textbook Psychology Applied to Work, "Mechanical aptitude ..."" - The first few sentences in the lead need to give a neutral statement in the encyclopedia's voice. It is okay to quote a source in the middle of the article, but the first couple of sentences need to be your distillation.
- Too informal - " no matter which exam you take." - Need a more professional, encyclopedic tone: "no matter" is to slangy.
- Section "Background Information" - It looks like that is a stub section that you have not yet written. You need to finish that.
- Section "Bennett Test of Mechanical Comprehension" - It looks like that is a stub section that you have not yet written. You need to finish that.
- Based on the sections that are completed, it appears that you have a decent writing style.
- Footnotes: the WP:V policy requires more footnotes: ideally one per sentence; but you can do one per paragraph, provided that the paragraph is cohesive and entirely based on one source.
- I think I'll pause the review ... I recommend that you (a) finish the two sections that are stubs; (b) add more footnotes (ideally one per sentence); and (c) rewrite the lead in your own words (see WP:LEAD also). After doing that, notify me (on my Talk page) and I'll resume the review.
End Noleander comments. --Noleander (talk) 18:55, 21 April 2012 (UTC)