A good analysis is the foundation of every essay. Analyzing is a skill to be honed, it does not come easily. Over the years of many English classes, I have learned the difference between analysis and paraphrasing. An analysis is how the I perceives a certain scene, event, or subject. The main point of analysis is meant to state a deeper thinking or concept to the reader. It is meant to relay a certain message or thought in the reader’s mind throughout the whole text. The most important thing about analysis is that it should always agree with the main picture that the I am trying to send.
After taking English 2 last year, I was finally able to differentiate between paraphrasing and analyzing. Many people including myself frequently mix up the
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I don’t know how other people analyze or if they even have a process, but I have a set of questions I ask myself to make sure that what I’m writing is actually an analysis. When I learned how to analyze things, I noticed that analysis is supposed to relay your own assessment of the text. When writing an essay the key to a thought provoking analysis is to show the reader what I took away from the source. How I separate a good analysis from a summary is to see if it answers the question: Does the analysis contain my own point of view on the text and support the main theme/message I’m sending?” If my analysis doesn’t fit the criteria, then I know that I have to rewrite it or reword the sentence. This process has helped me eliminate any paraphrasing that I could have mistaken for analysis throughout my essays. However, there will be certain times where I can’t even come up with an analysis. When I can’t put my thoughts into words, I think of other questions like “What about the evidence backs up my thoughts or claims?” Or “Why was this evidence important towards my essay/ why did I choose this statement as my example?” These are my strategies on how to think of analysis or weed out any paraphrasing in my …show more content…
Sometimes when authors write books, they don’t like to say things directly. This is why analyzing is useful because it hints at the readers to think about a certain topic and search for a deeper meaning. An analysis also is supposed to make the reader explain what they were able to gather from the source. It also has to be able to have the reader be able to show what they know about a situation from the given text. Another purpose for analysis is to have the reader really think about the source as a whole. Analyzing makes the reader come to their own conclusion about what the main message or theme of the source is. In addition, an analysis is meant to produce burning questions and thoughts for the reader. Other than having the readers think about the message or real meaning behind a situation, analyzing gives the reader a chance to really get to know characters mentioned in the literature. When a certain character behaves a certain way, it can reveal the character’s personality or true intentions to the reader. Analysis also gives insight on how a certain author likes to write by taking into account of the way sentences are worded, or how thoughts in the book are laid out
Analyzing is very important in literature. Without analysis, literature would be bland and hidden meaning or messages wouldn’t be discovered. Without having the readers come to their own
Good. I don’t know if you looked at Dartmouth’s site, but I highly recommend examining it and bookmarking it for college. In general an analysis goes into a bit more length and detail and contains an introduction and conclusion, as well as a thesis that is tested, if even briefly. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/what.shtml
Both passages concern the same topic, the Okefenokee Swamp. Yet, through the use of various techniques, the depictions of the swamp are entirely different. While Passage 1 relies on simplicity and admiration to publicize the swamp, Passage 2 uses explicitness and disgust to emphasize the discomfort the swamp brings to visitors.
The piece that I will be analyzing is called How It Feels to Be Colored Me. This piece appealed to me because she described her point of view through the use of anecdote. Her perspective of being different caught my attention because most articles about being colored are so clique. This one is out of the ordinary because she thinks of being colored as a good thing. The only thing that could be difficult to analyze about this piece would understand how she feels because back then, black people were treated horribly.
“I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen, is a story about a mother's struggle to balance the demands of raising children and having to work to make ends meet during the Great Depression. The story’s primary focus is on the relationship between the narrator, a mother, and her first child, Emily. Throughout the story, the narrator reflects on the decisions and mistakes she made while raising Emily. The narrator was detached from Emily almost completely during her younger years, but she desires an emotional connection to her, like she has with her other children. She also wants Emily to have a better life than she had.
I was able to find several resources that helped me understand how to begin writing an analysis. One of the resources that I used came from our textbook “The Little Seagull” (pages 49-53). They were able to describe the key elements in a rhetorical analysis, how to analyze the argument, and how to organize your thoughts for mapping out the analysis paper. This was helpful for me to know how to generate ideas and organize my paper but I still didn’t have my “a-ha” moment. So I dug deeper and went online to view some rhetorical analysis essays to see the set up and how they should sound to help persuade my audience. The most helpful resource that I found was a video on You Tube where Shaun Roundy was explaining the fundamentals of writing a rhetorical analysis. This is where the light bulb finally came on for me and I was able to understand that how I had been writing my analysis paper was all wrong. I was summarizing instead of critiquing the author’s persuasiveness of the argument. Shaun Roundy was able to give the big picture of what instructor’s look for in a rhetorical analysis and start from the bottom by giving the definition of rhetorical analysis and building our foundation of learning by helping me to understand how to apply it. I viewed this video many times, even while I was in the middle of writing to make sure that I had a clear understanding of what my paper should include. I was able to improve my paper by making sure I stated my claim and supported my opinion. I had to make sure I had enough evidence from the article that showed the purpose of the article, the directed audience, and if the author showed either logos, pathos, or ethos. I needed to make sure my claim stated the author’s effectiveness of the argument and showed enough evidence to support my
Today, we are writing an essay. Its content is about reflection and rhetorical analysis. What to reflect it? Reflections on what we learn. We have studied English for a long time. For our international students, from primary school, we learn the content and form of learning is similar to our own native language. When we learn to basic knowledge of English after. We began to learn new things. This knowledge is to make us more skilled use of the English language. So we started to learn writing. In the writing of a lot of knowledge, they like us to write our own language to write an essay. We need to improve our writing skills with a lot of writing skills. These writing skills can be a plus for our writing. It allows people to join them more interested.
The Rhetorical Analysis essay taught me how to truly understand a story and how to compare the opinions of other people. The essay involved the article “A Modest Proposal…”, which can be a difficult writing to understand, but the discussions in class and the mini questions that were given to groups helped me understand the story in a deeper level. Annotating was never my strong suit but I believe because of this essay my annotation skills have improved. The different reactions to the article also helped me understand the purpose of writing the Rhetorical Analysis; The opinions changed my thoughts on the article and
People read literature an abundance of times, but yet many don’t actually undergo the appreciation of the novel. Some overlook pieces of the novel and consider it insignificant to the whole story because those readers are inexperienced. The book, How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, allows readers and students to fully comprehend the meaning behind the book, making them assured to read “like a professor”. Letting the reader to go further in depth surely helps their analytical thinking to flourish. Having no boundaries when analyzing, Foster sure provided plenty of creative imagination discussing about archetypes and how we should consider the character’s perspective.
In order to analyze the essay and answer the question, a systematic analytic approach mustbeset forth. In the case of a narrative analytic approach, there are twomainsteps. First, the piece ...
The essay is written in a very critical style where the reader will feel like they have been wast...
The first writing project I was assigned in this class was an analysis of the film, Gran Torino. During class, I learned there was so much more to the movie than what we see; there was a meaning behind every little thing from the clothes to the hair to even the cars on the side of the street. It all meant something. The key features of an literary analysis include “an arguable thesis, careful attention to the language, attention to patterns or themes, and a clear interpretation (Norton Field Guide 85-86).” Critical thinking is an important skill, not just behind a desk, but also in the real world. The second writing project was a workplace writi...
To explain, I have come to see paraphrasing to be useful with the students, I work with. I myself find it greatly useful when others use the micro-skill when speaking
Reader-Response theories propose that works of literature exist in a mutual relationship between the reader and author. The meaning that a reader extracts from a text is a simultaneous result of both the author’s intent, and the reader’s interpretation of it (Roberts, 149). With this theory, there is an inherent subjectivity associated with the analysis of any work of literatur. An author may have a specific meaning to the story but another person can read the story and create his or her own interpretation that is just as meaningful as the author’s original ideas. Put another way, meani...
Devlin believes that mathematics has four faces 1) Mathematics is a way to improve thinking as problem solving. 2) Mathematics is a way of knowing. 3) Mathematics is a way to improve creative medium. 4) Mathematics is applications. (Mann, 2005). Because mathematics has very important role in our life, teaching math in basic education is as important as any other subjects. Students should study math to help them how to solve problems and meet the practical needs such as collect, count, and process the data. Mathematics, moreover, is required students to be capable of following and understanding the future. It also helps students to be able to think creativity, logically, and critically (Happy & Listyani, 2011,
Literature is rarely, if ever, merely a story that the author is trying to tell. It is imperative that the reader digs deep within the story to accurately analyze and understand the message the author is trying to portray. Authors tend to hide themselves in their stories. The reader can learn about the author through literary elements such as symbolism, diction, and structure. A good example of this is Robert Frost’s poems The Road Not Taken and Nothing Gold can Stay in which he uses ordinary language unlike many other poets that became more experimental (Frost, Robert. “1.”).