Zander Roseborough Ms. Lehmann English 2-1B 3 December 2019 My Review of “Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connect” Ai Yazawa once said, “People can’t just be tied together. They have to connect.” De Waal seems to agree with Yazawa’s assessment. Frans de Waal’s article “Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connect” is a well written and organized piece, but it is only meant for people looking for information; you cannot use this for research. To better understand the article’s value, we should first examine the author’s background. The author was a good person to write this article. He has a degree in biology, and he is the director of the Living Links Center at Yerkes Primate Center. He is an expert in the field of primate behavior he has worked with monkeys and studied all primates and the ways we are connected.He knows exactly what he is talking about. He is a published author. His purpose is to inform readers.He did a good job of doing that, and he was unbiased about it. He also had a great writing style.He was conversational in tone. He wrote as if he were talking to us and that made it fun to read.He wrote for average readers so that people don’t have to be the best readers to understand what he is writing about. Another factor that makes the article good is the format. De Waal didn’t use section titles, but we really didn’t need them. He did a great job of transitioning from section to section. It worked well as one big article. De Waal did a good job easing into the article. He didn’t jump right into the argument.He delivers the main claim later.All his information is relevant; he wasn’t just rambling on. His content was great; it all worked well together.Everything tied in.He had good information and knew how to use it. His main claim was well introduced. He waited to give his main claim, but the conclusion clarifies the main claim. In the article he talked about the power of connection and how we must learn from each other and teach each other, explaining that human behavior and monkey behavior is similar in this way. De Waal is a very qualified author with his biology degree and experience working with monkeys. Even though he is qualified, this article is not a good choice for a research paper. It is great for information, but there is no bibliography, so it is not good for in-depth learning. De Waal is a very qualified man for the job of writing this article, so I trust him to know what he is talking about. The article lacks section titles that could have helped and given readers a little bit of organization, but even without them, De Waal did a great job of transitioning, so we didn’t need subheadings. De Waal had great information and did a fantastic job of tying everything together. It wasn’t just a big jumble of facts; it was well written and went together fine. This article is worth your time.
Article Review Reflection De Waal, Frans B. M. "Monkey See, Monkey, Do, Monkey Connect" Collections, edited by Kylene Beers, Martha Hougen, Carol Jago, William L. McBride, Erik Palmer, and Lydia Stack, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2017, pp. 123-128.
Article Reflection 1. Explain the process you went through to write this paper. Please be specific. I made an outline and then wrote rough draft and last I made the final copy 2. What qualifies this paper as an informative essay? What are the requirements for a review and how did you meet them? I told you all about the article and the information they had. Told you what happened and where to find it. 3. What one piece of advice would you give someone writing a review for the first time? Why? To make an outline first. It made everything easier. I could refer back to it so it helped a ton.