Opinion Article: Strengths and
Weaknesses of an Author’ Effort at Scholarly Writing
One of the great breakthroughs in
the past 50 years has been the widespread availability of the personal
computer. This powerful learning tool has revolutionized everything from
commerce to education and changed the very way everyone conducts his or her
daily lives. And most notably, where only a few years ago people wrote about
the “digital divide” between those who could afford computers and
those who could not, there is almost no discussion along these lines any
longer. And, in fact, why would there be? Poor people can now save enough to
buy their families a computer for home and school use. In fact, an article in
Business Week in 2001 estimated that more than 80% of all high school students
were “plugged in.”
Write an analysis of the strengths
and weaknesses of this author’s effort at scholarly writing, and an assessment
of the paragraph in terms of bias, opinion, quality of evidence, and
appropriateness to its target audience.
