PROJECT: ANALYZING A MAGAZINE ARTICLE Instructions: Select an article of interest to you from a recent National Geographic or ot
her scientific magazine. Using information provided on the cover and in the table of contents, give list these items: magazine title volume and issue numbers page numbers of the article Answer the following questions about the article. What is the purpose of the article? Does the purpose involve a hypothesis? If so, what is it? List any scientific terms or phrases used in the article and write the definition of each term. What is the conclusion drawn by the writer? List the pieces of evidence cited by the writer to support his conclusion.
What is the purpose of the article? The purpose of the article is to describe the way the Manakin bird use its body parts to make sounds.
Does the purpose involve a hypothesis? If so, What is it? Yes, the writer is trying to prove and explain how the Manakin bird uses its wings to produce sounds.
List any scientific terms or phrases used in the article and write the definition of each term.<u></u><u>Ornithologist: </u>The branch of zoology that studies birds; <u>Avifauna: </u>The birds of a given region, considered as a whole.
What's the conclusion drawn by the writer? List the pieces of evidence cited by the writer to support his conclusion. The conclusion is that the Manakin has specialized feathers in his wings, which it knocks together 107 times per second to produce sound. <u>Evidence cited:</u> "The bird was knocking its wings together 107 times per second. Examining the birds secondary feathers in the lab, I saw on each wing a specialized feather with 7 separate ridges".
Each body paragraph contains a topic sentence that tells readers what the paragraph is going to be about, supporting sentences that discuss the idea or ideas in the topic sentence, using examples and/or evidence to support that discussion, and a concluding sentence.
