Article Analysis: Level One

Project Source Categories and Distribution

What is the general category of the source material?

Book

• Scholarly or popular?
• Writing Style
• Documentation
• Author's Background

Periodical

• Specialized Journal?

  Federal Communications Law Journal

  
  

• "Mainstream" Press?
  • The New York Times
  • LA Times
    • Front Page
  • CNN Interactive
  • Nando.Net The (Charlotte, N.C.) News & Observer
• "Alternative" Press?
  • Mother Jones
• "Opinion" Magazine?
  • The American Prospect
  • The Progressive Populist
• "News" Magazine?
  • Pathfinder (Time Warner magazines)

  
  

• "Trade" Press?
  
  • Editor & Publisher
  • Communication Arts
  • JAMA (Journal of the American MEdical Assn.)

What is the Economic Support for the Publication?

• Advertising?
• Subscribers?
• Organization?
  
  • For-profit ?
    
  • Not-for-Profit?
    
  • "Special" Interest?
    
  • "Public" Interest?

What is the nature of the article?

• Popular Press/Trade Press
  
  • "News"
    
  • "Analysis"
    
  • "Opinion"
    
  • "Editorial"
• Specialized Journals
  
  • Research
    
  • Review Essay
    
  • Critical Analysis
    

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Who is the Author?

• Training?
• Expertise?

Also see:
How to Critically Analyze Information Sources (Cornell University)

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