I would be grateful if you can check and grade my essay on the scale of 4 in four aspects: reading, analysis and writing since i am taking the New SAT in this May. Thank you!!
They want me to analyze the article of Dana Gioia “why literature matters”
Write an essay in which you explain how Dana Gioia builds an argument to persuade his audience that the decline of reading in America will have a negative effect on society. In your essay, analyze how Gioia uses one or more of the features in the directions that precede the passage (or features of your own choice) to strengthen the logic and persuasiveness of his argument. Be sure that your analysis focuses on the most relevant features of the passage.
Your essay should not explain whether you agree with Gioia’s claims, but rather explain how Gioia builds an argument to persuade his audience.
Against the downturn in American literary compassion which encompasses the reading industry in a negative demeanor, in his article “Why literature matters”, Dana Gioia has depicted reading as a core asset in any intellect-based society or civic spheres. By leaning his American readers’ ears on the competent claims voiced by prominent figures, the author aims to show young readers how their apathy toward literature would ensure future occupational defectives and poor social engagement.
The article starts with Dana Gioia scheming the extreme difference between the changes accomplished by art and other social facets (income, college turnout, information accesssibility) in American society. Through the use of contradicted phrases in the first paragraph: “diminishing” versus “rise to an unforseen level”, “ballooned”, “enormously increase” ; the authors highlights the disparity in American development pace and how attention are being shifted away from artistic appeal. Gioia’s claim is not at all evidentless, the author bases his vision on the 2002 Survey of Public Participation in Arts. According the the result of the survey, while the downshift in artistic participation is commonly identified in the age group of 18-24, all the more worrisome it is to find that more and more young adults are ceasing the devotion they commit to literature.
After successfully driving readers’ attention towards the issue addressed, Dana Gioia goes on with the discussion of the effects of reading on the current occupational scenerior where the working hierarchy does not appear as a single entity, but as two separated blocks instilled with different verses of argument. In doing so, the author could comprehensively inspect how reading comes to affect all classes from the working community. Following a downward trajectory, the author first discusses about the uppermost layer where managers and leaders reside. Reciting the quotation made by Daniel Pink who believed that the constituent element of a successful leader is not the “linear, logical, analytical talents” , but rather sets of aptitudes that are purely literary in their own nature: “the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative”, Gioia casts a supporting spell on his claim that most business leaders prefer the management postions in their companies be assumed by people who possess “imagination, creativity, and higher-order thinking”. As he progresses downward to the base of the pyramid, Gioia then notes that nonreading behavior is festering the productivity as well as and the working potent of the common workforce. To yield more credence for his claim, Gioia refers to the polls of the National Association of Manufacturer which stated that among the skill deficiencies, reading ranked second; and that : “38 percent of employers complained that local schools inadequately taught reading comprehension”. Adding numerical statistic to his statement (38%), the author could increase the persuasive weight for his article, and the word “complained” placed at the end of the sixth paragraph seemingly creates a full possibility where reading becomes a criteria for future personel recruitment.
Towards the conclusion of his article, Gioia describes the decline in reading rate as a defective that renders American society less “free, innovative, or productive” . Before so, he has also touched the broad societal consequences wrought by the decrease in literary indulgence including limited politcal and national awareness and less civic engagement. Borrowing the voice of a study by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the “Reading at risk”, the author notes that “The evidence of literature’s importance to civic, personal, and economic health is too strong to ignore. The decline of literary reading foreshadows serious long-term social and economic problems”.
The article is a compillation of careful evident choices and strong assertive sentences that force the readers to take whatever actions they deem to be right to curb the distressing situation facing reading industry, or more precisely, to protect the “free, innovative, or productive” nature of America