The purpose of the article of the week is to give you practice with close-reading strategies and help you develop your writing skills. Learning to summarize quickly will help you better understand a text and be able to convey the author's message. The commentary section helps you learn to engage with a text in a type of conversation that helps you create your own voice. The quotes section helps you to integrate the author's voice into your own thoughts and ideas. The last section will help you to be able to create a working thesis that is arguable, provable, and not obvious.