1. Article title surrounded by “quotation marks” 2. Reporter’s name (If there is more than onereporter, cite them all in the order given on the article. This includes contributing reporters often listed at the bottom of an article.) 3. Title of publication, italicized3. Date of publicationB.Begin with a short overview(summary) of the article youare analyzing. Summarize the article by explaining who, what, where, when, and why. A summary is written in your own words and captures the article’s main point(s) or argument. (A reader who has not read the article should understand its overall point from your summary.) A summary is objective, meaning it does not include your opinion. State whether the article topic is about a local, national or international issue. You will what to include a brief sentence, the hook, about the impact of the issue here, developing this aspect of your analysis in the body paragraphs. Explain the key players involved, adding any additional information that you may know about them. . (Research a bit without going crazy.)You may editorialize in this area of your analysis. Explain when and where the issue took place if it is not detailed in the introductory paragraph.II.Analyze the articleAfter summarizing, analyze the article. The analysis involves thinking criticallyabout the purpose, ideas, evidence, and presentation of the article. Be careful not to include your opinion of the issue addressed in the article.* Instead, focus on how and why the article was written.Provide your response to the query, SO WHAT?Some questions you may ask yourself are: •Explain the local impact of the issue i.e., its impact on you/us, students, Americans. Explain the global impact of the issue.•Why was the article written? What is the purpose of the article?•What is the context of the article? In other words, why was this article written now? Discuss the social, cultural, and/or political impact of the issue•What type of evidence is presented? How is it organized? •What is the effect of the information presented? Does it evoke emotion? Does it appeal to logic and reasoning? •Do you detect bias? What is the agenda behind the article? Who wrote the article? What is their affiliation? What is the bias of the publication? (You may need to do some research to find out the answers to these questions.)•Provide any other insight that answers, from your point of view the analysis question, So what?!Provide evidence from the article to support your analysis. Focus on the article itself in your analysis,and support your responses with examples and evidence from the article.*A response that merely states your opinion on the issue will not be given credit.III.Apply the article to what we learning in the course:•How does the article inform your understanding of the issue? How does the article connect to what you are learning in class? •How does the article connect to the provided concepts? This application should either describe how the events in the news article help to understand the concept better or how understanding the concept would help interpret the events in the news article. Please make sure you define concepts in your own words relying on in-class materials Format: News analyses should be typed(double-spaced, size 12 font, Times New Roman font), proofread, and three to four pages long(1000 -1200words).
