Language analysis: Analysing articles with comments?

[lpnly]

I was wondering if when it comes to analysing articles that contain a direct comment from a user, do I incorporate the contentions of the article with the contention of the comments? Or do I do them separately as different paragraphs?

An example of this would be 'the power of ink' on the 2011 English exam, I did a draft of this and my teacher commented that it was slightly 'strange' to incorporate the comment and the article in one paragraph.

[starlord]

I think that in this case, it would be better to leave the article and the comments as separate paragraphs by themselves, especially if their contentions are not identical. However, you can still make reference to the comment while you are still discussing the main article, as long as you don't go off on a tangent mid-paragraph. 

[iClinton]

Do we mention it in our intros ? if theres for example, 3 comments

[meganrobyn]

I summarise the contentions, target audiences and therefore main persuasive aim of each supplementary piece (eg comments, letters in response) at the end of my intro, and I also integrate analysis of them into my main BPs - but that's because I do a fully comparative structure for the essay. All the pieces will be hovering around the same basic issue as each other or they wouldn't have been put together, so they will have connections; I find the comparative more synthesised when you find those commonalities, and then compare/contrast the ways in which the pieces try to have a similar effect, or a different effect in relation to the same thing. Eg. The main piece wants to evoke sympathy for <blah>, whereas the comment wants you to scorn the same thing.