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Music 9: Article Analysis Prompt

Requirements: Your article analysis should illustrate your ability to critically think and analyze about a text. At a minimum, your article analysis should be 1000-1500 words, not including your Works Cited page.

Summary

· Start with a summary of the article – use your annotations from the article to help you summarize.

· Your summary should be one paragraph long and should be the first paragraph of your analysis.

· In your summary, be sure to:

· Mention the title of the text, name of the author, and the author's thesis statement or the central point;

· Maintain a neutral tone and be objective;

· Use the 3rd person point of view and the present tense (avoid first person);

· Focus on the article, and don’t bring in any of your personal experience;

· Don't state the authors ideas as your own;

· Put all or most of this summary in your own words. If you borrow a phrase or sentence from the text, place it in quotation marks and properly cite it using in-text citations;

· Limit your summary to the article’s key points. Don’t get bogged down with details;

· Be concise.

Analysis

· After you complete your summary paragraph, add one to three paragraphs of analysis of the article.

· Your paragraph(s) should have clear topic sentences and show critical thinking of the article.

· Consider the following questions when writing your analysis paragraph(s). Although you do not need to address all of these questions, successful paper tend to address most of the questions with multiple sentences devoted to each answer.

· Who is the audience (who is the author writing to)? How successful was the author in appealing to this audience?

· What type of evidence does the author use to support the thesis? How persuasive is the evidence? How do you know?

· How does the author relate key points to one another? Did the author structure his/her argument well?

· What strategies does the author use to generate interest in the argument and to persuade readers of its merit?

· Does the author anticipate objections and counter opposing views? Did the author fairly evaluate and address the counterarguments? Could the author have addressed more counterarguments?

· Does the author have any biases? How do you know?

· How credible is the author? How do you know?

· Remember, good analysis always points back to the text. If you think the author is using persuasive evidence, point out a specific place in the text where the evidence is persuasive.

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