Part 29 (2/2)

I SOURCES OF MATERIAL

1 What appears to have suggested the subject to the writer?

2 How much of the article was based on his personal experience?

3 How much of it was based on his personal observations?

4 Was any of the material obtained from newspapers or periodicals?

5 What portions of the article were evidently obtained by interviews?

6 What reports, documents, technical periodicals, and books of reference were used as sources in preparing the article?

7 Does the article suggest to you soht obtain material for your own articles?

II INTEREST AND APPEAL

1 Is there any evidence that the article was tieneral or of local interest?

3 Does it seem to be particularly well adapted to the readers of the publication in which it was printed? Why?

4 What, for the average reader, is the source of interest in the article?

5 Does it have more than one appeal?

6 Is the subject so presented that the average reader is led to see its application to himself and to his own affairs?

7 Could an article on the same subject, or on a similar one, be written for a newspaper in your section of the country?

8 What possible subjects does the article suggest to you?

III PURPOSE

1 Did the writer aiuidance?

2 Does the writer seem to have had a definitely formulated purpose?

3 Hoould you state this apparent purpose in one sentence?