Chosen Article and Outline

PAY ATTENTION! by Stephanie Brush (pg. 365)

I finally chose this article because the topic interested me because it is not generally talked about a whole lot. It is different and I like topics that come from people who are personnally involved in the topic they are writing about. I thought because I was so interested it would be easy to write an analysis on this article.



outline:

P1. Introduction

• Title and author
• Showing how to use T.R.A.C.E

P2. Type of Text

• Sarcastic/Funny tone (the way the author makes fun of herself)
• A laid back attitude
• The examples given of the comments she gets about her ADD

P3. Type of Reader

• People who do not have ADD to show that it is not something that is intentional and is hard to control.
• Maybe a little to people who do have it to show that there is nothing wrong with them because they have this.

P4. Type of Author

• Female who has ADD
• Writing to express what it is like to have ADD

P5. Type of Constraints

• ADD is more of something you are and not something you have.
• ADD is nothing to do with attitude and it is not "fair" to tell someone who has it that they have a problem with their attitude or they simply do not pay attention to what is going on.

P6. Type of Exigence

• Hopes to help people get a better perspective on the issue.
• To show from personnal experience what it is really like

P7. Personal Response

• I agree with the author. This is not something that can be helped a lot of times and when people are medicated it sometimes takes away from the persons personality. There is no need to be judgemental on something someone can not help.