Article Review Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to give you the opportunity to put into practice the principles of reading comprehension and criticism discussed in class.
In order to complete this assignment, you will need to choose an article from the list below to analyze. (You can access articles from the Cal State library home page).
Once you have chosen your article, research the background of both the topic and its author. After you have a basic understanding of the background of the reading and its author, carefully read through the reading following the steps discussed in class.
You must turn in answers to the following questions regarding your reading. Make sure that you follow all of the directions for each question and that you answer each question thoroughly). THIS IS TO BE DONE IN ESSAY FORM!!!
Any time that you use a direct quotation from your reading make sure to use quotation marks and put the page number from which the quote is taken in parentheses. DO NOT RELY ENTIRELY ON QUOTATIONS!!! Use them sparingly.
Make sure to proofread your assignment before you turn it in! Assignments that are sloppy or full of grammatical errors will be significantly marked down.
Here is the link to APA style guidelines:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html
Summary Analysis Questions:
What is the title of your chosen reading? Who is the author?
Give a short description of the background of the reading and its author.
State the thesis of your reading in one or two sentences.
List the main parts of the reading.
Define the problem or problems the author is attempting to solve.
List and interpret the basic words or important terms/phrases the author uses.
State in your own words two of the authors leading propositions and list the arguments supporting those propositions.
Determine which of the problems the author laid out a solution for and which he did not. If the author did not solve all the problems identify whether he is aware of that and also if he created any new problems that were left unsolved.
Provide a one to two paragraph critique of the article. Describe what you disagree with and explain why.
Proofread and Edit:
Have you answered questions that your audience might make?
Did you include transitional words and phrases?
Did you check for nominalizations? Passive Voice? Faulty Predications? Subject / Verb Agreements?
Are you being Critical?
Articles to Review
Brinton, N Crane. The Anatomy of Revolution. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1952.
Dominguez, Jorge. Insurrection or Loyalty: The Breakdown of the Spanish American Empire. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Eisenstadt, S. N. Revolution and the Transformation of Societies. New York: Free Press, 1978.
Foran, John, Taleong Power: on the Origin of Third World Revolutions Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Universty Press, 2005.
Foran, John, David Lane, and Andreja Zivkovic eds, Revolution in the making of the modern world: social identities, globalization, and modernity. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Goldstone, Jack A. Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press: 1991.
Goldstone, Jack A., Robert Gurr, and Farrokh Moshiri, eds. Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.
Greene, Thomas H. Comparative Revolutionary Movements: Search for Theory and Justice. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1990.
Goodwin, Jeff, Now Other Way out: States and Revolutionary Movements 1945-1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Hart, John Mason. Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Johnson, Chalmers. Revolutionary Change. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983.
Gurr, Ted Robert, Why Men Rebel. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1970.
Hibbs, Douglas A. Jr. Mass Political Violence. New York: Wiley, 1973.
Scott, James. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.
Huntington, Samuel P. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.
Keddie, Nikki. Debating Revolutions. New York: NYU Press, 1994.
Lipset, Seymour Martin. Radicalism or Reformism: The Sources of Working-Class Politics, AmericanPolitical Science Review, 77, 1 (1983): 1-18.
Migdal, Joell, Peasants, Politics, and Revolution: Pressures Toward Social and Political Change in the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.
Moore, Barrington, Jr. Social origins of dictatorship and democracy; lord and peasant in the making of themodern world. Boston: Beacon Press, 1966.
Popkin, Samuel. The Rational Peasant. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979
Skocpol, Theda. Social Revolutions in the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1994.
Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988
Tareke, Gebru The Eth
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