Eng 101 Writing Analytically

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Writing Analytically

Analyzing Literature


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What does it mean to analyze?

When you analyze something, you:

Break it down into its components

Think about those parts methodically

Come to an understanding about whatever

you are analyzing


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Features of analysis

A question that prompts you to take a

closer look

Some description of the subject you

are analyzing

Evidence drawn from close

examination of the subject

Insight gained from your analysis

Clear, precise language


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A question that prompts you to take

a closer look

For Essay 1, I will be providing you with

this question/questions.

For other essays, you may be asked tocome up with your own topicyour own

question that makes you take a closer

look. These questions dont have one right

answer. It is up to you analyze and come

to a conclusion.


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Some description of the subject you

are analyzing

For every essay, you have to decide how muchbackground information you need to provide.

For Essay 1, ifyou use The Gettin Place, you canassume that your reader has read The Gettin

Place. However, its a good idea to introduce who

characters are (ex: The difference between the oldand new ways is clear to Enchantee, Demetriuss

wife). You also want to give the reader context by brieflyexplaining what is happening in the particularscene you are analyzing.

Your focus should be on analyzing rather thansummarizin .


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Analysis will help you discover:

Key elements of a text

Patterns within a text Relationships between characters and ideas

We will be using rhetorical analysis for Essay

1 Looking at recurring themes in the book

Relating information from the book to your own

life


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(What is a theme?)

A theme is a central or unifying idea that

runs throughout a piecea book, a story,

a movie, etc.

What are some of the themes in The

Gettin Place?What are some ideas that

keep coming up with different characters

and situations?


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For Essay 1, your evidence will come in theform of your own life and observations and, ifyou choose, information from the text:

Specific examples Quotes from the text

Paraphrasing the text

Example: Language is used to define people in TheGettin Place. This can be see when Straight writesthat Marcus ended up unconsciously translatingthings into his fathers or brothers words (70).


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Insight gained from your

analysis

Looking closely at the text and finding

patterns and relationships will help you

give you insight into what you are reading. Your analysis has to have a purpose.

Ultimately, your analysis will help you

generate a clear point that will lead you toyourthesis statement.


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Clear, precise language

The point of analysis is to help an

audience understand something.

For Essay 1, you are helping your

audience better understand how a theme

in The Gettin Place relates to your own

experiences.

In U.S. academic writing, we use clear,

specific language.

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Eng 101 Writing Analytically