ENGL100 Basic Composition

ENGL100 Basic Composition Question:

Your first Take-Home Essay: is a critical review of the article from the Anthology. This could be a review of the article as a whole or of a relevant part of the article. In case you choose to review part of the article, make sure to clearly describe the part and reasons why your review is narrowed to it.

As you know, a critical review is a two-step process; it involves reading and writing.

Step 1:

Critical Reading a Read and annotate the article. Answer at length, informatively, insight fully, and accurately, the following critical questions:

• What is this article or the chosen part of it about and what is its purpose? This is known as a statement of topic and purpose. Write 1-3 sentences that explain the main topic of the article or its part and its purpose. See if you can actually find the statement of purpose in the article and paraphrase it. See if you could quote a portion of it. Is the purpose clear? In your view, is this a relevant goal for the author(s)? Is the Marketing Research conducted by the author(s) topical? Is it socially relevant? What makes it so?
• How is the article organized? What are the parts of the article; create a simple outline that shows the organization of parts of the article. Think about which parts you need to be particularly attentive to and why. What is the purpose and main point of each part? How clear and effective is this organization of parts?
• Whats the argument? What is the main point and premises/reasons that support it? Try to locate the actual thesis statement of the author(s). This statement typically is located toward the end of the introductory section of the article. Highlight it in the PDF and put some effort into paraphrasing it accurately and precisely. Then look through the parts of the article for supporting points and evidence. Your goal is to write the argument of the author(s) in standard form (i.e., the conclusion and key premises of the argument on separate lines). How strong and persuasive is the argument? What makes it persuasive and strong? What makes it compelling, interesting, insightful? Write a sentence or two of comments.
• What kind of evidence does the author use to support his/her/their argument? Is the evidence based on facts or opinions? Whose opinions? Are they convincing? How? Flag in the article key pieces of evidence. Typically, you will find evidence in the results and discussion parts of the article.
• How does the language of the article work? Is it clear? Is it effective? Is it accessible? To whom? Who is the intended audience for the article? Who would most profit from reading it?
• What is the point that grabs your particular interest and why? Explain/clarify that point and show how the author deals with it. Prepare a short lesson to teach that one point to your classmates. For that, you need to flag relevant passages from the article where the author is discussion the point of your interest. Write a summary of these passages using a combination of paraphrase and quotation properly introduced with signal phrase and accompanied by in-text citation.
• Ask yourself: What are the reasons why this particular point is interesting to you? How would you further develop that point in your research? What would you like to investigate and how? What do you hope to discover? Draft your research/focus question(s).
• How do you like the way the author treats the topic? Do you agree with the author? Do you agree with the treatment of the topic? Where and how do you disagree with the author? Where and what are the limitations of the article? Write several sentences in response to this set of questions.
• Would you recommend others to read this article? Who should read it and why? What are your reasons for recommending it?

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