Blood Donation Article: An Analysis

Paper Summary:

The paper examines Richard Perez-Pena's article "Blood Center Warns of Dangerously Low Supplies in New York Region" that appeared in the New York Times. The paper analyzes the author's thesis, the evidence presented to the reader, the partiality, the style and the article's structure.

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Thesis
Evidence
Partiality
Style
Structure

From the Paper:

"The author's thesis in this article in The New York Times is that the New York Region's blood supplies are "dangerously low." Because of a slowing down of blood donations, the New York Blood Center which is the main blood bank for New York City had reached a "five-year low" in January 2007. And the author of the article (Richard Perez-Pena) claimed that when the blood supply drops this low, there could be "life-threatening shortages."
"The thesis is supported by facts; in the second paragraph, the author writes about the measures that the New York Blood Center was taking, for example it was limiting supplies of "some less common blood types" that it was sending to hospitals in the Hudson Valley, New York City, on Long Island and in Northern New Jersey. If the blood donations continue to be at a low pace, the author continued, hospitals (which depend on the blood center for all their blood supplies) may be "unable to give needed transfusions to trauma patients" and also those hospitals might be unable to provide blood to those individuals who need to have emergency surgery."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Perez-Pena, Richard. "Blood Center Warns of Dangerously Low Supplies in New York Region."The New York Times 10 January 2007: Retrieved December 22, 2007, fromhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/nyregion/10blood.html.

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