Sean Walsh - Critique

Critique of “The Supply & Demand of Gas” I thought that the beginning of Melissa’s analysis in the first two paragraphs was spot on. She began by introducing the topic to the audience and explaining the background information they would need initially to fully grasp the concept as it continued throughout the breakdown. She jumps right into explanation in the second paragraph by starting with specifically what recently has affected the market and in what ways. By bringing in statistics on the rise and fall of prices and market average, she paints a clearer picture for her audience and makes her explanation as visual as possible with careful word choice and easy to understand step by step progress. The second part of her second paragraph I thought was the best of the whole analysis. Especially for students of the class, her connection to the specific topics we go over in class that are at the crux of our course learning. The explanation of not only supply and demand in the context of what we learned in class, but also supply and demand in the article’s sense and the ways in which in correlates directly to the material we learn out of the text book were precisely what the guidelines for the submission indicated to include. The third and largest paragraph of the submission followed suit after the second in its precise and crisp analysis of the article. By combining the explanation on a national and more public level the crises of the natural disasters and turmoil that have been occurring recently with the more in depth analysis on terms of the material relevant to our class specifically, Melissa made an thick article on rising gas prices into a simple explanation of the facts that could be easily understood by anyone with any common sense about the concepts of supply and demand. The only small problem, and small in an almost insignificant sense was the closing. I thought the article choice as well as the whole explanation was so good and easy to read, I just thought that it deserved the proper analytical summary that left the readers with the whole sense of the depiction and not just the most recent words or the words that stuck out the most to them. The closing was fine and worked because the explanation was so good, but in my opinion I would have personally just liked that had the whole commentary topped off with the main points and the final sentences that leave the readers with the true sense of what the author was trying to say.