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With our new unit, here come some more readings. For this assignment, you need to carefully read and annotate the following two articles:
Biz Stone on Twitter and Activism (Links to an external site.)
Gladwell and Stone are talking to each other, similarly to the way Hilton and Kohn talked to Dweck. This is an academic conversation, Consider the ways the respond to each other as you read.
Then, complete our Annotation Worksheet for each one!
I. Rhetorical Context (Who wrote it or created? Why was it written? What is it trying to do to or for its readers? What is it? Where does it appear? When was it published? )
II. Summary (What does the text say? What are its main points/claims? Sub-claims? What kind of support does the author use to back these claims up? What did you find most interesting?)
III. What are THREE golden lines from the text (quotes that stood out to you most)? Why?
Explanation & Answer
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Article Annotations – Outline
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Article worksheet one
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Article worksheet two
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Answers to article questions
Annotation Worksheet
Source: Gladwell, M. (2010). Small change. The New Yorker, 4(2010), 42-49.
I.
Rhetorical Context (Who wrote it or created? Why was it written? What is it
trying to do to or for its readers? What is it? Where does it appear? When was
it published? )
Small change was written by Malcolm Gladwell for the 2010 issue of the New Yorker
to describe the weaknesses of social media platforms to the objective of making
revolutionary changes in our societies. Also, the arguments that were presented in the
article were used to provide both historical and comparative analysis of the effective
methods for accomplishing sociopolitical changes in different parts of the world.
II.
Summary (What does the text say? What are its main points/claims? Subclaims? What kind of support does the author use to back these claims up?
What did you find most interesting?)
Gladwell (2010) used the events that inspired some of the protests and campaigns
against discrimination against black people to illustrate the importance of the political
activists in the efforts to challenge the status quo. The author claimed in one of his
arguments that the impacts of social media platforms on the different types of
revolutions that are happening in the world today is distorting people’s perspective of
the true meaning of political activism. While these online communication tools have
achieved success in countries such as Iran, Arab Springs, and Moldova, the strong ties
that sociology scholars consider hey cannot create the driving force for revolution.
Gladwell used the various dimensions of the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s to
support his position on the weaknesses of social media platforms for po...
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