Please make this excellent, I have not seen your first work yet but I hope it is good. Remember I need the article

along with the piece you critique

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You can get articles from good popular magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, or notable speeches. Articles provided (or student-selected) need be no more than 500 – 800 words long. 



For essays that will be analyzed, your analysis should focus on the following areas:

• The subject of the article.

• The purpose of the article and why you think that is the purpose.

• The primary discourse used by the writer and why that discourse has been chosen

• What are the major devices and techniques used by the writer to achieve the purpose and why these devices were used.

• Give an general assessment of how successful you think the writer has been in achieving the primary purpose in writing the piece.



QUESTIONS FOR CRITIQUING THE EXPOSITORY ESSAY

1. Is the thesis statement clearly expressed?

2. Do the topic sentences support the thesis?

3. Does each body paragraph contain support material (statistics, examples, explanations, facts etc) that effectively illustrate the claim of the topic sentence rather than offering mere generalities?

4. Are the supporting details clearly expressed?

5. Is each paragraph developed in enough specific detail? Could more details be added? More precise language?

6. Are the body paragraphs arranged in a most effective order with a smooth transition from one to another?

7. Does the discussion flow of the paragraphs flow logically and coherently?

8. Is the material organized effectively into the mode (comparison and contrast, cause and effect, process analysis, classification, etc) for the subject material?



please make it 500 words or less