In this article, found through the Huffington Post, the state of education funding is analyzed through statistics and comparisons to previous conditions of education.
Author: There is no author provided for this article that I could find, which is moderately concerning in order to understand the credibility of the article. However, it is written for the education portion of the Huffington Post, and was likely a collaborative piece.
Audience: The audience of this article are people interested in and invested in the understanding of the condition of education funding. It is a statistic heavy article that is a little much to read and is intended for people who will power through the reading for the sake of more insight regarding school funding.
Context: This article was written in response to the dramatic cut in education funding across over half of the states. Though these cuts did not happen all at once, they were close enough to one another that they would not go unnoticed by people paying attention to the state of school funding.
In this article, also found on the Huffington Post, the author examines Arne Duncan's feelings toward the state of education and other statistics surrounding it.
Author: The author of this article is an experienced political Huffington Post writer named Rebecca Klien. She has a multitude of political articles published by Huffington Post and a link to her professional twitter, which references other political articles. She is a credible writer and an insightful individual.
Audience: The audience of this article is likely people who are familiar with the topic of school funding, as well as who Arne Duncan is. However, she doesn't expect them to be experts based on the way that she summarizes some of the basic principles in the flawed education system argument, such as No Child Left Behind.
Context: The context of this article is that it is written as a response to one of Arne Duncan public statements regarding the state of education from his perspective on the Education Committee of the government. The article accompanies the event with multiple statistics and other situation where the debate has influenced others.
In this article, found through LexisNexis, the general debate regarding the need of education reform is presented and the funding predicament is addressed.
Author: The author of this article is Mark Karadimos, a math teacher who has been arguing for education reform since 1995. A link to his personal web sight is included. He has been teaching since 1991 and was a member of an Improvement Committee for several years, giving him extensive insight regarding education reform.
Audience: This article seems to be written for an audience who is on the same side of the author; people who find the education system undoubtably flawed. It is not written for people who are familiar with the debate and is only written to present the basic ideas of an argument, rather than the argument itself.
Context: There is little context provided for the article. As the reader, you know that the author has written on the topic before, but there is little information on why the author is writing this article in particular; there is nothing notable it is responding to.
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I found your analysis of these three texts very interesting. I personally found your third source most interesting, since it is an opinionated piece by an author who seems to be very qualified and credible. I thought your first piece might be the least dynamic of the three, since it mostly seems to include statistics, and there is not much opinion that I saw. I would have been interested to see some more context that describes the medium each source was found in, so that might be something to keep in mind for future analyses. Great job overall!
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