Part A:

Name of Article: Communications

Author: Neil Partrick
Journal Name: The Middle East Journal
Date of Article: 04/17
Summary:
This article is about a man named Neil Partrick, critiquing another author of and article. The
author of this other article was Dr. Simon Mabon, who wrote an article that was titled, “Saudi
Arabia in Flux.” He wrote this article about a book called “Saudi Arabia and Europe,” which was
a book written mainly about the communication ties between the United Kingdom, and Saudi
Arabia. Partrick says that this book has an unfair title because it is primarily written about the
communication between the U.K. and Saudi Arabia, instead of Saudi Arabia and the continent
of Europe. He states that if the book was titled “Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom,” that the
readers of the Middle East Journal, would better understand.
Part B

Title of Article: Perceptions of Employees and Supervisors of a Skills Training

Program
Author: Lincoln Todd Calcavecchi
Year:2018
Summary:
This is a very large article that is written about how skills training programs in companies help
the perception of employees and supervisors. The article is written by Lincoln Todd Calcavecchi,
who wrote this article as a dissertation in 2018. The main problem of this article was how adults
should emphasize their lives to focus self-efficacy, motivation, and setting goals for themselves.
The study did an interview with eight employees who had five supervisors. With their results
showing that training between supervisors and employees is beneficial, some employees
showed disappointment that they were promoted from doing this study.
Part C

Name of Article: How Dustin Johnson Keeps Golf Simple; In age of exhaustive data and
analysis, the world No. 1 just aims and swings; fall on Wednesday puts Masters status in limbo
Author: Brian Costa
Newspaper Article
Year (must be last five years): April 6, 2017
Summary:
This article was written about the golfer Dustin Johnson who has been one of the top ranked
U.S. golfers since 2015. In the article it starts by describing how Dustin plays, in his off time,
with the best golfers in the U.S. such as Phil Mickleson and Bryson DeChambeau. The article
states how players such as Phil and Bryson are very analytical players. They even call
themselves “golf scientists.” The article explains how Dustin’s success is because he is opposite
of this. Dustin just looks at the ball and hits it, instead of trying to process the science behind
the shot.