“Teens MP3 Habits May Up Hearing Loss Adults Listen Longer, but Teens Turn the Volume Up Higher”

ASSIGNMENT 1 – WRITING A CRITIQUE

Choose an article to write your critique on.

What do I have to do?

After you have selected your article/database entry, you need to write a 2 page (double spaced) critique of this article. What is a critique? Well, it is a chance for you to write these topics:

What was the name of the article?

What was the article about?

What is your opinion?

what you liked

what you did not like

what surprised you

what was boring about it

if you found it useful to you or not
conclusion

How will I be marked?

You will be marked based on the following rubric. You need to have good quality information, no spelling/grammar errors, appropriate use of the online databases, appropriate amount of information, and properly referenced resources in a Bibliography.

CATEGORY	8-7	6-5	4-3	2-1
Quality of Information	Information clearly relates to the main topic. It includes several supporting details and/or examples.	Information clearly relates to the main topic. It provides 1-2 supporting details and/or examples.	Information clearly relates to the main topic. No details and/or examples are given.	Information has little or nothing to do with the main topic.
Mechanics	No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Almost no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors	A few grammatical spelling, or punctuation errors.	Many grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.
Amount of Information	All topics are addressed and all questions answered with at least 2 sentences about each.	All topics are addressed and most questions answered with at least 2 sentences about each.	All topics are addressed, and most questions answered with 1 sentence about each.	One or more topics were not addressed.

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Name of the article

“Teens MP3 Habits May Up Hearing Loss Adults Listen Longer, but Teens Turn the Volume Up Higher”

By Miranda Hitti

What the article is about

This article is talking about the dangers that teens are facing regarding hearing loss as a result of exposure to loud music. According to this article, high school students reported more cases of hearing problems than adults. This aspect is supposed to be the opposite, as adults tend to experience hearing issues as a result of physiological problems. Data released………………..

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