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Instructions
News Article Analysis: full analysis
RLST100 sec 005
Dr. Ian Phillip Brown
University of Regina
Instructions
For your analysis you use the summary and proposals for analysis from your draft to compose a
three-point analysis of the article that you chose. I strongly recommend you use the same article
that you wrote your draft on. Reminder, that article must covers religion and is published in a
reputable news source (local and national news agencies are recommended). The article must be
recent, published no earlier than Dec 1, 2022. The choice of article is entirely up to you, provided
it is a serious (i.e. not satirical) news site. The New York Times, Huffington Post, Globe and Mail,
Leader Post, Al-Jazeera, Washington Post, CBC, CNN, and other popular mainstream presses are
a good place to start. All these sites are searchable, so if nothing jumps out at you, just search
“religion”. If you’re not sure of your source, feel free to ask me.
Summary
For your summary, please submit a revised (if necessary) version of the summary you submitted
in your draft. If myself or Jackie suggested ways you could improve your summary, points you
could clarify, or ideas that need to be mentioned, make sure you include those in your updated
summary. If we had no suggestions, uploading the same summary is fine. Assessment will focus
on how well you are able to clearly and concisely present the argument that the article makes and
the evidence that it provides. If you quote from the article directly, please cite it properly (example
in citations guide). Summary should not include any commentary on the article (i.e. should not
say that X was done well but there was no focus on Y), commentary needs to be saved for the
analysis. Your summary should be apr. 300 words, you can do it in less, but summaries under 200
words are probably leaving things out. Similarly, summaries over 400 words are probably
repeating material or adding details that are not necessary.
Three full analyses
You will write three paragraphs analyzing your article based on the ideas that you proposed in
your draft. I recommend using the proposed analyses that you included in your draft, or analyses
that myself or Jackie suggested. If you are unsure of one or more ways you can analyze your
article, feel free to email me (Ian). Each analysis should be written in its own paragraph, so you
will write three paragraphs here. In each analysis paragraph you must make reference to something
that we have discussed in class or has come up in the readings. See the example for how you might
write an analysis based on ideas from class. The key here is to make observations about the article
that you as a student of RLST100 are uniquely qualified to make. In other words, how can what
you have learned in class help you see things in the article that the average reader will not consider.
References to lectures and course readings need to be cited properly. Examples in citations guide.
Each paragraph should be apr. 300 words, you can do it in less, but paragraphs under 200 words
are probably leaving things out. Similarly, paragraphs over 400 words are probably repeating
material or adding details that are not necessary.
Reflection
In approximately 100 words, please reflect on how your approach to the assignments has changed
from the draft to the full analysis, and how (if) comments you received on your draft helped you
think differently about the assignment and about religion in the news more generally.
Submission
Submit your full analysis through this portal. All full analyses must be submitted as doc, docx, or
PDF files. The full analysis must be submitted by 11:59pm on March 24.
Formal requirements
Please attach a link to the article that you read.
Submissions must be in 12 point size with Times or Times New Roman font
Double-spaced
Pages must be numbered
Title page and rubric must be included
Please title your sections “summary,” “analysis1-3,” and “reflection”