Why do articles cause so much difficulty?
Because many languages do not have them, and because the rules depend on what the reader already knows rather than on the noun itself. The same noun takes a, the or nothing depending on whether it has been mentioned, whether it is unique, and whether it is countable in that use.
This comes up on Academic English for International Students, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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