obtain material for your own articles?


II. INTEREST AND APPEAL

1. Is there any evidence that the article was timely when it was
published?

2. Is the article of general or of local interest?

3. Does it seem to be particularly well adapted to the readers of
the publication in which it was printed? Why?

4. What, for the average reader, is the source of interest in the
article?

5. Does it have more than one appeal?

6. Is the subject so presented that the average reader is led to
see its application to himself and to his own affairs?

7. Could an article on the same subject, or on a similar one, be
written for a newspaper in your section of the country?

8. What possible subjects does the article suggest to you?


III. PURPOSE

1. Did the writer aim to entertain, to inform, or to give practical