The Materials Analysis is a brief Google Document (~500 words) that explicates how the features of your advocacy materials target an audience, suit a context, and accomplish a purpose. This document should have three parts: introduction, body, conclusion. An effective structure for the Materials Analysis is outlined below:

1. Introduction: Introduce your topic by providing relevant background information about the current situation. In other words, show the reader why the change you propose is needed or beneficial. You will have to identify the audiences the materials target, what contexts they fit, and what they seek to achieve. The introduction is generally one or two paragraphs.
   
   
2. Body: It may be more effective to treat the advocacy materials as a unit, or it may be more effective to examine them separately while paying appropriate attention to the connections among them. Regardless, you should identify specific, concrete features of the advocacy materials and explain how these features help them target an audience, fit a context, and achieve a purpose. The body should constitute the bulk of your Materials Analysis.
   
   
3. Conclusion: Briefly reiterate what your advocacy materials accomplish and key ways that their features do this. The conclusion generally is no longer than a solid paragraph.
   
   

Remember that an analysis does not use first person; it should not talk about you nor your design process. Essentially, the Materials Analysis is like a legal case. It should establish an argument to prove in the introduction. It should then present its evidence in the body. Lastly, it should make its closing argument in the conclusion.

Once you have completed your Materials Analysis, you will submit it to me electronically using the form below. Once your Google Doc is ready for submission, make certain that its "Share" setting is set to "Public on the web," and then enter the document's URL in the form below. Feel free to contact me with specific questions.