Question

1) Locate an article about a subject that is of interest to you. It could pertain to a career issue, an academic issue, or a life issue. 2) Analyze the article and identify the audience the author intended to read it, as well as the situation that might have influenced its writing. 3) Evaluate the quality of the writing; propose how the author might have revised or proofread the the article to make it more readable and appropriate for the intended audience. 4) Share with your peers your response to the ideas expressed in the article. Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Why not?

Answer 1

1) The article is as follows: (Based on life issue)

How do we understand our ultimate goal?

Your ultimate goal is to come to goalessness.

Whenever you will enquire into a goal, you will only see its falseness. But that does not mean that you will quickly become goalless. Maya is not so easy to defeat. She will come up with a more lucrative goal, a more secure goal, and a more impenetrable goal. You cannot penetrate it or argue against it. Now you will have to raise yourself up. Bring yourself to a point where you can defeat even this goal. Where you can see that even this goal is not worth it. That will require effort, that will require dedication and that will require a lot of sharp intelligence.

When goals present themselves, the foolish one starts chasing them and the really intelligent mind examines it. In the process of examining it, it may even move a few steps towards it, which is alright. If I want to examine something, I might want to go towards it but it never blindly rushes towards the goal. When you examine the goal, you go beyond them. A point comes when goals are no longer relevant and that is the ultimate goal.

2) Audience the author intended to read it, as well as the situation that might have influenced its writing.

This article is for those people who have already gained a lot of experience in their life by performing various activities as well as for those who are yet to start their journey they want to about the ultimate goal of their action from the various task of human life. The situation which forced a person to write this is he want to give the right path to life and wants others to do only correct action and don't want other people to waste their precious time.

3)Evaluate the quality of the writing; propose how the author might have revised or proofread the article to make it more readable and appropriate for the intended audience

The article is very well written as there is the shortage of time in today's world one should try to give a to point information instead of stretching the whole truth but it also creates an opportunity for those seekers who want to explore the truth it is a kind of exercise which few persons will to do while some not.

4) Share with your peers your response to the ideas expressed in the article. Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Why not?

This is the problem with the written material that it doesn't give an instantaneous answer to the reader's questions which arises when he read an article such a problem doesn't exist in conversation. I totally agree with these words and I accept the reality it is hard to believe that we wasted so much of our life in  those activities which won't last with us rather than we should try to focus to do those things which would be with us even after death.