Choose one of the following articles to analyse:
• Smirl, E. (2018, February 7). Outsourcing Municipal Waste Kicking Workers to the Curb. Retrieved from https://www.policy alternatives.ca/publications/commentary/work-life-outsourcing-municipal-waste-kicking-workers-curb.
Write your response as if you were writing to a 1st-year university student with little-to-no background knowledge of the topic at hand.
- What is the author’s central argument (thesis)?
- What evidence does the author present to support their central argument?
- Does the evidence support their central argument effectively? Why or why not?
- Who is the audience for the author? In other words, who are they writing for, or trying to convince?
- What are the strengths of this article and/or the author’s arguments?
- What are the weaknesses of this article and/or the author’s arguments?
- Do you agree or disagree with the author’s position? Why or why not?
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