Writing Assignment 2 - Critical Review

Your task is to prepare a critical review of a "substantial" (i.e., not a short news announcement or abstract) technology-related news article or a technology review/analysis article.  Your review should not exceed three pages, exclusive of the article.  Use the "Writing Assignment Guidelines".  The article should come from a current newspaper, magazine or technical journal, not from your assigned textbook.  Make sure you give yourself enough time to find a timely and interesting article which will make the assignment easier than waiting until the last minute and writing on a topic of no interest to you.

A critical review requires you to:

• Recap the main points of the article briefly, presenting the authors main points/arguments.  This part is descriptive and must make clear that the ideas are those of the author, not yours.
• Analyze/respond to the author's points in terms of one or more of the social controversies discussed in Part I of the textbook.  Are potential  impacts discussed?  How balanced is the presentation?  How persuasive is the argument?  What issues were missing/overlooked?  What is the author's bias?
• Attach a copy of the article.

• Atlanta Journal Constitution
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal
• GT Technique
• Time Magazine
• Business Week
• Newsweek
• Communications of the ACM
• Wired
• BYTE magazine
• IEEE Magazines
• Scientific American
• Internet World
• MacUser
• PC magazine
• Computer Security Journal
• OMNI
• ONLINE & CD-ROM Review