Critical Reading Assignment: Reading, Quoting, and Paraphrasing

Critical Reading Assignment:
Reading, Quoting, and Paraphrasing (10%)
Your Task: Re-read the article assigned by your professor for the Diagnostic
Assignment and respond to the following 7 questions:
1. Identify Audience: Who is the target audience for this article? What evidence can
you find in the article to support your answer?
The target audience of the article is the people who are more online and active
on social media such as Facebook and Instagram. The author talks about the
skull emoji on the social media and his analysis suggests that 92 % of all
people use the online emoji and 1/3rd of them use it daily.
2. Identify Purpose: What is the purpose of this article? What evidence can you find
in the article to support your answer?
The purpose of the article is to examine the emergence of emoji on social
media as a distinct modern language. The author states that people use emoji
more to express their emotions rather than writing a sentence that can hardly
express what he thinks. The article is aimed at drawing the focus on the rising
importance in the lives of people. The author suggests that they are trying to
solve big problems of writing online and without writing anything, the emoji
express the emotions with more accuracy.

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3. Quote and Cite Main Point: Using the table below, respond to 3a), b), and c).
Write each component of the sentence in the appropriate cell.
a. Identify Main Point: Using the author’s original wording, write down the
main point of the article. Remember to use quotations around this
passage.
b. Create a Signal Phrase: Add a phrase to the above passage that
introduces the idea and indicates who the author is.
c. Cite: Add the in-text citation to the passage above.
TYLER SCHNOEBELEN HAS
discovered something
curious
“In essence, we’re watching the birth of
a new type of language. Emoji assist in
a peculiarly modern task: conveying
emotional nuance in short, online
utterances”
(Thompson, 2016).
[signal phrase] [main point] [citation]
Sample:
Studies on comics
show that
“this challenge to combine words and
pictures is fundamentally about
creating an effective design that can
attract readers through multiple
communication models”
(Yu, 2015, p.74).
[signal phrase] [main point] [citation]