Problem
After reading The New York Times article on the scopes trial answer the following questions:
A. What was the purpose of the article? How could you tell?
B. What arguments and evidence were included in the article, and how did they help achieve the author's purpose?
C. What are the characteristics of the audience? Think about the audience's age, gender, location, education, and so forth.
D. How could you tell who the audience for the article was?
E. What did the audience seem most interested in?
F. How did the purpose and audience shape the kinds of details that were included?
G. Why was the order of the information appropriate for the audience?