Predictions of “In Defense of Domination”

Title:

The title does not remind me of anything that I have read. There are not any contents for the title to summarize

Contents:

No chapters are provided. No headings are used. No tables, graphics, or photos were included.

Context:

This is an article with no words that surround the text. Only the authors name has been provided and when it was written. The title is the only piece of context before the text and it may suggest a political/social piece.

Your Prior Knowledge:

I don’t know anything about the author or what the subject might specifically be. I don’t know what experiences I can relate to the topic. This article reminds me of a new articles from CNN but nothing specific.

Genres and the Purposes They Convey

The genre of the text is an article. The purpose of this article might be to inform or persuade. Expect to see logos appear in the article. I am reading this article for class. I don’t know how I could use it as a cited source in my own writing.

Predictions of the article:

I think it will be some political/social piece. The article will begin by introducing a social “problem” then lay out why it is a problem and finish by taking the other view point.

Questions to Ask after a First Reading:

The text is about the New York Yankees. The text made me feel nostalgic remembering mid 2000s baseball. This article reminds me of whenever people use a baseball analogy discussing any non-sport related topic. The most important part is the parallels made between the Yankees and the USA. The text is about how the US went from being an “underdog” to dominate during its history but the people still see it as an underdog. I don’t know what the text should mention that it might not have said.

Evaluating evidence:

The evidence is accurate and did seem correct. The evidence provided is relevant to the underlying claim. The evidence did not come from a source of authority? There is enough evidence to be convincing of the underlying claim. The evidence is represented in the form of a metaphor using details about the Yankees and its relation to the other teams in the capitalistic nature of the MLB and comparing the USA to the other countries in the world in the same sense.