Exercise 9 Secondary source analysis

1. Who is the author and what is the basis of his authority? [find out what else he has written]

2. When and in what journal was the article published? 

3. What is the setting or context of this article?  What is the big picture?

4. What kinds of primary sources does the author use?

5. On what types of secondary sources does the author rely?

6. What  is the problem or issue that the author is examining? what central argument, or thesis, does the author make in response to this problem?

7. What do you think are the article's primary strength and weakness?