THE ANALYSIS OF AN ARTICLE
Planning article analysis
There are several stages in analyzing and presenting an article that can be grouped around the following steps:
1. Read the article and understand its topic.
2. Identify the message (the central, main idea).
3. Sort out the key issues and organize your thoughts around them.
4. Express your attitude to the key issues and your opinion of the author’s
position.
5. Make notes about additional facts and updated information to support your
position.
6. Present the analysis.
You have to read and understand the article and its key issues. But it is not
enough just to know what the author of the article writes about. You are also
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expected to show that you can critically evaluate the facts and views presented in the article. This means being able to form your own informed opinions about them. To make the process of organizing your thoughts and ideas better structured you should consider the following questions while reading the article:
1. What is the title of the article? Who and where is it published by?
2. What is the author’s aim? (To present some new information? To persuade? To
discuss a problem? To solve a problem?)
3. Is the message clear? Is it explicit, clearly stated? Is it evident throughout the
article? Comment on the author’s presentation of fact. Distinguish between
facts and author’s opinion.
4. What kind of tone is the article written in?
5. What is your impression of the article? Does it make an interesting reading?
Structure of article analysis
Introduction
Give the article’s title, refer to the source of article, say a few words about the author and define the type of the article (analytical, informative or mixed); specify its message and outline the key issues.
Main body
Present the main facts and ideas given by the author in the article, speak about the author’s general stand on the problem, discussed in the article.
Conclusion
Comment on the author’s opinion and manner of fact-presentation, express your outstanding of the problem and support your commentary with some background knowledge, additional updated information or/and reference to other sources.
Useful words and phrases
Introduction
The title of the article is
The article under analysis / consideration / discussion / review is The article is entitled
The author of the article is
The article is published in
The article is taken from
The subject / topic / problem / current issue of the article is
The problem was caused by / resulted from / was a result of
The objective / main aim of the author is
The article deals with / tackles / raises / bears on / the problem of
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The article is devoted to
The article provides ample food for thought for the readers
Main Body
The Author’s Technique
- The author looks at / takes a quick look at / explores / examines the problem of
- The author informs the readers that / describes / characterizes / shows /
illustrates / defines / portrays /discusses / demonstrates / introduces / analyses /
suggests / recommends
- The author foresees / predicts / claims / admits / asserts / criticizes / condemns /
acknowledges
- The author brings to light / highlights / stresses / lays stress on / draws the
readers’ attention to / points out / puts emphasis on / emphasizes / focuses on / comments on
Developing Arguments
Sequencing
Firstly / First of all / Secondly / Thirdly / Then / Next / After that / Finally / Eventually
Addition
Furthermore / Moreover / In addition to / To add to that / Besides / What’s more / Apart from this / Along with / As well as
Comparing
Both ... and / Also / Neither ... nor / Likewise / Similarly / In the same way / Almost the same as
Contrast
Nevertheless / However / Despite this / In spite of / Actually / In fact / On the one hand ...On the other hand / Although / Even though / Whereas / At the same time / Different from / Otherwise
Highlight
- It’s essential / vital / extremely important to understand
- Ultimately / Basically / Most importantly
- In particular / Especially / Chiefly / Mainly
- If we look at the problem closely
- What it exactly means is
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Giving an example
- To clarify / explain / paraphrase / illustrate
- For example / for instance
- In other words / That is
- Specifically / In particular
Cause and Effect
- Because of / Owing to / Due to / For this reason
- One explanation (for...) is that ... / What has brought this about is that ... / As
it
- happens
- Therefore / As a result / Hence / Accordingly / Consequently / As a consequence /
- Thus
Presenting questionable ideas
- Provided / Providing / Granted / Granting
- Supposing / Assuming
Referring to something or reporting somebody’s ideas
- In somebody’s words / understanding / According to / Somebody is quoted as
- saying / As somebody says / claims / argues / considers
- The information is taken from
- Somebody defines / describes ... as ...
Agreeing with or supporting somebody’s ideas
- I would like to support / back an argument
- I’m prepared to share somebody’s views / to side with somebody
- I totally / completely / absolutely agree with
- I fully understand that / I’m in favor of / I support / I share the author’s opinion
- I see eye to eye with the author on this problem
- The author is correct to point out
- To a certain extent / up to a point I agree with ...but
- The message is explicit / clearly stated / implicit
- The facts are accurate
- The author’s conclusion is unbiased / objective /logically consistent with the
rest
- of the article
- The author presents a well-argued, reasoned case, clear arguments
- The tone of the article is neutral / unbiased / impartial
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Disagreeing with or supporting somebody’s ideas
- I would like to oppose somebody / to disagree with somebody on an issue
- I’m afraid that I can’t accept the idea that ...
- The author’s conclusion is biased / inconsistent with the facts / opinions of
- The author is insufficiently informed that
- The tone of the article is biased / partial / bitter
- The author’s tone is excessively emotional / unscrupulous / stereotyped
Making general statements
- All in all / Generally / On the whole
- Basically / By and large / For the most part
- Essentially / My general impression / assessment of he article is ...
- I’m convinced / I do think / I feel / I tend to think / I would suggest that
- I believe / consider / suppose
- Myviewisthat/AsIseeit/Itseemstome/Inmyopinion/view/Itismy
view
- that / It strikes me that / I’m inclined to believe
Summarizing
- So to sum up / Finally / In brief /
- If I can briefly summarize
- The article ends in ...
- Before I finish let me just go over the main points of
Concluding
- In conclusion / To conclude /To cut it short / Taking everything into account /
On the whole / As it was previously stated
- I’d like to finish by saying that / To conclude I’d like to say that / To reach
one’s own conclusion
- All things considered I would like to say
- The article makes an interesting and informative reading
 Используя структуру выше сделай анализ текста ниже.   « Why Starmer’s trade diplomacy may still bear fruit despite 10% tariffs on UK
Eleni Courea
Political correspondent
Retaliation may not be needed as Britain likely to be ‘front of the queue’ in agreeing deal to redraw trade relationship.  Wed 2 Apr 2025 22.02 BST. What is the best way to respond to Donald Trump and his sweeping tariffs? Keir Starmer thinks the answer is to tread softly, softly – while engaging in intensive negotiations behind the scenes.

There are signs that this strategy is bearing fruit. On Wednesday night, the president announced “reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world” including a 10% import tax on UK exports to the US – crucially, lower than the 20% imposed on the EU. The 10% rate was the lowest rate Trump announced and applied to several other countries including Australia, Singapore and Brazil.

It is a sign that the prime minister’s lovebombing campaign – including an invitation to Trump to meet King Charles in June – has put the UK in good stead. There will be no great sigh of relief inside government, however. The 10% tariff is bad news for the UK economy (as are the US tariffs more broadly) and Starmer’s priority will be to negotiate its reduction or withdrawal.

Ministers have been unsuccessful so far in their efforts to sign an economic deal with the US by offering concessions on taxes for big tech firms and lower taxes on meat and fish imports. By Wednesday morning, No 10 had conceded that the UK would not be exempt from the wave of tariffs, which Trump later announced in the White House Rose Garden in an act of political theatre and unabashed projection of his power on the world stage.

There are reasons for Starmer to be optimistic as his focus shifts to signing an economic deal within weeks or even days. Leslie Vinjamuri, the director of the US and Americas programme at Chatham House, said that the UK had “played its hand extremely well” and that “one can imagine a scenario where that US-UK deal is announced pretty quickly”.

Vinjamuri said Trump had “boxed himself into a corner” where he had to announce universal tariffs before negotiating country by country but that there were signs the UK would be at “the front of the queue” for a deal.

“If the UK decides to roll back the tax on America’s tech firms that will be a huge win and, for the president, far better to announce that after he’s levied a punishment,” she said, adding that ministers could “lace it up with a visit to Scotland by Trump to meet the king”.

Others argue that Starmer’s approach is fraught with risk by unnecessarily drawing Trump’s attention to the UK – which could lead him to exact concessions that wouldn’t otherwise have needed to be made.

David Henig of the European Centre for International Political Economy said Starmer’s approach was “in one sense softly-softly not threatening, in another quite aggressive in seeking a deal, when that could cast a spotlight on perceived UK faults when we weren’t otherwise in the firing line”. He said the risk was that the US administration could target areas such as the UK’s digital safety laws, food standards or VAT.

Government officials said an economic deal with the US was broadly ready and could even be completed within days. The success of Starmer’s approach will be judged by how quickly that happens – South Korea, Japan, India and Australia have all been trying to strike similar deals.

Jonathan Reynolds, the business and trade secretary, said the government’s approach would be “to remain calm and committed to doing this deal, which we hope will mitigate the impact of what has been announced”.

The EU, meanwhile, has vowed to respond with “robust” retaliatory tariffs against the US. Starmer has come under pressure from some quarters to harden his own approach. Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, called for the UK to form an “economic coalition of the willing” with the EU and Canada to counter Trump’s “divide and rule” tactics.

For the prime minister and his team, including the foreign secretary, David Lammy, the settled strategy is to follow the approach set by the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. Abe established a good rapport with Trump during his first term thanks to some carefully choreographed flattery and behind-the-scenes diplomacy.

“The hard-edged singular focus on retaliation is misplaced. It assumes that by retaliating you win but everybody loses,” Vinjamuri said. “One doesn’t want to be prescribing that America’s allies and partners become overly sycophantic, but there is a lot to play for and there is a lot to win.”