The article I chose to
write about is entitled “The Lazy Guy’s Guide to Health”; it is foundin
the October 1998 issue of Maxim Magazine. The magazine is promoted towards
menand mainly covers issues dealing with men’s health. The whole point of the
article is to 1. show men easy ways to lose weight. It lists eleven different
things a man can do to lose weight and reduce the calories in his diet. All of
the suggestions are quick and easy ways 2. to keep weight off. 3. The basic
information in the article is good. The suggestions the author lists seemto be
simple enough for most men. Even the though article has no flow it does get the
point across about weight loss; if you work at it, every man can lose some
weight. For 4. most men it’s nice to hear that they can stay fit without
having to spend several hours a week in a gym. It does a great job explaining
how to stay fit. The tips are things that mostmen can use wherever they live.
The article has information that is very useful for men that lead a busy life.
The most important thing this article does is tell men what they want tohear.
Most men want to hear that weight loss is something that takes little time and
effort. 5. Having appeal can be the most important part of an article from a
common consumer’sstandpoint. The article will catch the eye of most male
readers simply because of the article’s title. The author is not a good writer
from an English instructor’s point of view, 6. but he does a great job of
getting his point across. 7. I think the author should have been more informed
about physical fitness. The way I was able to tell that he needed more knowledge
about health was because he didn’t use 8. very many details when he talked
about losing weight. The author never told you why aperson might have a weight
problem, he simply told you how to lose the weight once you gained it. From a
time standpoint; the article never states how long it might take for a man 9. to
lose weight using these tips. Most people aren’t trained health professionals
and they don’t really know how to diet correctly. I include myself when I say
that most people don’t know the correct way to lose weight. The article claims
that it applies to most men, 10. the author should have used some percentages to
back up his point. Another thing the author never states is whether or not
results will vary due to a man’s age. In my opinion the author should have
used a story of a man who used these tips to lose weight. It would 11. have
shown the reader that by using these tips a man can get the results he wants
when itcomes to weight loss. 12. The article does not flow very well. Since the
article is listing things it doesn’t havea rhythm. Its very hard for a paper
to flow when it is a list of items. The author mainly uses quotes from doctors
and universities rather than his own point of view. The structureof the article
is rather poor. The author made no attempt to write this article in a way where
it flowed. Instead of writing several paragraphs that flowed together and were
cohesive, he wrote down far too many small paragraphs that just had no flow or
rhythm. It seemed like the article was one large list that made no sense. I felt
like the author didn’tput any time into writing a good article. It was evident
that he spent quite a bit of time 13. doing research for his article; he just
didn’t put that same effort into writing the article itself. You don’t have
to know very much about health and fitness to know that this articleisn’t
great advice on how to lose weight. At the same time I don’t claim to be a
healthexpert, but I’ve tried to lose weight and I know that it is much tougher
than this article makes it out to be. 14. The author of this article gets his
point across, but the real problem is the way hegets it done. He has done some
great research as far as weight loss; he just doesn’t put thearticle together
in a way that made any sense. It was easy to follow, but at the same time it
wasn’t put together in a logical way. I would say that the author had his
facts straight and had some great things to tell the readers, but he just
isn’t a very capable writer when it 15. comes to tying it together. I would
say that the article has useful information if you’re trying to lose weight.