Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Article Critic


The authors name is Malcolm Gladwell. He was born on September 3, 1963, in the United Kingdom, and raised in Elmira, Ontario. He is a writer for The New Yorker, and he is best known for the author of books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, and Outliers: The Story of Success. In the essay he wrote titled Dept. of Motor Vehicles Free Lizzie he is siding with Lizzie Grubman, trying to pursued people that it was not her fault. He is writing this essay for the people who believed that Lizzie caused the crash on purpose. He gets information about peddle errors that was written in 1989 in an issue of the journal Human Factors, it was written by U.C.L.A.psychologist named Richard A. Schmidt. The information he is using to pursued people is very reliable. His use of the evidence works well with the article and pursues me. He uses refutations in the article for example, when he is talking about pedal errors, you wonder to yourself what is a pedal error and how does it happen? Well when you keep reading you find out what it is and how it happens. In the article he only had one place where he got his information, with that one place he got really good information that persuaded me, but some people may want 2 or 3 different sources to pursued them. Otherwise he did a good job of getting what he wanted out of this article.

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