Consider the following questions: How is the material organized? Who is the intended audience? What are the writer’s assumptions about the audience? What kind of language and imagery does the author use?

Step 1: Choose one of the articles assigned for Week #7.

 

Step 2: READ IT (read through several times, keep notes)

 

Step 3: Analyze

 

–Preliminary work:

  1. Identify the author’s thesis and purpose
  2. Analyze the structure of the article by identifying all main ideas
  3. Consult a dictionary or encyclopedia if necessary to understand material that is unfamiliar to you
  4. Make an outline of the work or write a description of it in your own words

 

-Written analysis:

  1. Write a summary of the work
  2. Determine the purpose which could be
    • To inform with factual material
    • To persuade with appeal to reason or emotions
    • To entertain (to affect people’s emotions)
  3. Evaluate the means by which the author has accomplished their purpose
  • If the purpose is to inform, is the material presented clearly, accurately, with order and coherence?
  • If the purpose is to persuade, look for evidence, logical reasoning, contrary evidence
  • If the purpose was to entertain, determine how emotions are affected: does it make you laugh, cry, angry? Why did it affect you?
  • How does this article connect to the topics/themes covered in the course thus far?

 

Consider the following questions: How is the material organized? Who is the intended audience? What are the writer’s assumptions about the audience? What kind of language and imagery does the author use?

 

(Source: https://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/elejeune/critique.htm).

 

 

Your response should be 3-4 pages double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font.