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The article "Join a club! Or a team – both can make good citizens", by Peter Levine from the Ebscohost database, summarizes how after school programs improve their participants' citizenship. It emphasizes a correlation between active community and extracurricular involvement. Then, the author provides example parallels between citizenship and after school activities. Following this information, the article acknowledges the differences between involvement in school clubs and community activities such as sports to volunteering. Levine also suggests that extracurricular participation improves one's pride, forms healthy connections, and motivates students' collaboration in civic engagements. In the next paragraph, Levine explains the definition …show more content…

He is a member of the Phi Delta Kappan magazine, owned by Sage Publications Incorporated. Due to being a magazine, readers should be aware that the article may contain viewpoints from the author's perspective. With that mentioned, this passage has an inviting tone because Levine's target audience are students in high school and college levels. The article's informal voice persuades the reader to participate in clubs and civic services, presuming that the reader is not currently engaged in either one or both. Despite having a peer-like tone, Levine is objective when analyzing facts and results offered by statistics, which makes his claim logos-based. He specifies how the data presented relates with his topic by offering detailed instances of when the same skills are used in both civic activities and school clubs. Levine credits counter arguments to the results as well. He acknowledges inconsistencies in the data. This passage was published in 2016 of May. Since this is about two years ago, the information is still considered relevant to today. Overall, this article is most useful as inspiration for students to participate in extracurricular and community activities. It can be used to support why school organizations are beneficial; however the informal tone may weaken the article's effectiveness. This article can also support students' character development outside the classroom due

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