What is the argument? What are the consequences of sending kids to charter schools on the quality of their education? Do kids in charter schools receive a better or more complete education than children who attend public schools?
Who is the audience? The particular article is speaking to psychologists who monitor the results of testing done on students so they can compare these results from one school to another and make conclusions regarding these results.
What is the Goal of this article? This article was downloaded from a National Charter School Website. With that information alone one can tell that the goal is to persuade the reader that Charter Schools are a better way to go rather than the public school system. Most of the information in the report talks about the better performance of Charter School Students vs. the Public School so even thought the information is presented in a very analytical manner, the object is still to let the reader know that Charter Schools are better than Public schools, academically.
How is the argument being made? Logos. This is a report full of numbers, computations and results; saying these are the numbers for A,B, and C and because of these numbers, here are the results. Clarity is also used as the report is laid out very logically, very clearly and each heading is labeled taking the reader from one area of study to the next.
Is this effective? Yes, this is effective. The reason I chose this article as part of my research is because the numbers were clear. Are Utah Charter Schools working like they should be?…the numbers tell with out having to guess what the underlying message is all about and I can transfer the hard facts to paint the picture of what I want to say thru these facts.
Article for Research:
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/charterschools/news/crt_Analysis.pdf
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