{"id":805,"date":"2017-10-16T20:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-englishcomp2kscopexmaster\/?post_type=chapter&p=805"},"modified":"2017-11-20T14:54:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:54:15","slug":"analyze-this","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-englishcomp2kscopexmaster\/chapter\/analyze-this\/","title":{"raw":"Analyze This","rendered":"Analyze This"},"content":{"raw":"You now learned about some of the many different forms an argument can take. It doesn\u2019t have to be presented in a traditional essay with a thesis and topic sentences for your paragraphs. Arguments can come in many forms, even stories.\r\n\r\nIn the following video<\/a> that you'd click on once linked to the OWL Excelsior \"Analyze This\" page, watch as a student analyzes a narrative argument, pointing to the key elements of narrative and demonstrating how a story can make for a very persuasive argument.\r\n\r\nTo read the full essay reviewed in the video, click\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong>.\r\n
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With Analysis, Focus Upon Functions or Effects<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nAt the college level, putting in the right-sounding quotes in the right-looking spots of a body paragraph is insufficient.\u00a0Writers are expected to use the quotes as excuses to argue their points.\u00a0Close reading is a crucial skill which helps the writer make sense of how something makes sense.\u00a0Literature courses largely aim to enhance or bring about readers\u2019 abilities to handle complex, indirect texts that demand multiple responses.\r\n\r\nClose reading is an analytical activity where the writer picks parts of larger whole and discusses how they function.\u00a0This can be done while annotating or deciding what to say about an annotated chunk of text.\u00a0Because your audience often knows the text and has ideas about how it works, it is up to you to do more than simply point out the existence of an important line, phrase, or word.\u00a0Within the line, the critic must move from pointing out an idea to arguing how it functions.\u00a0What effect is created by that phrase?\u00a0How does this word affect readers?\u00a0These questions get proved after careful setup and cited quotation work.\r\n\r\nOnce you have dissected a speech, description, or dialogue, remember that you have committed a fairly aggressive, destructive act.\u00a0You yanked a part from the whole.\u00a0Remember to use the late portions of paragraphs to put the pieces back together.\u00a0(\u201cPick up your toys when you are done with them!\u201d)\r\n\r\n \r\n

What You Might Look For <\/strong><\/h3>\r\nFocus on an author\u2019s use of complexity by discussing the effects of any of the following:\r\n

word choice (diction) word order (syntax)<\/p>\r\n

connotation\u00a0denotation<\/p>\r\n

irony (dramatic, situational, verbal)\u00a0symbolism<\/p>\r\n

mood\u00a0tone<\/p>\r\n

paradox (seeming contradiction)\u00a0how words fit\/bring about character<\/p>\r\n

rhetorical appeals (logos, ethos, pathos)\u00a0logical patterns (valid or not)<\/p>\r\n

Rhetorical modes (description, narration, definition, process, illustration, comparison\/contrast, classification\/division, cause\/effect, argument)Basically, looking for moves of any sort is a good starting point with analysis<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"

You now learned about some of the many different forms an argument can take. It doesn\u2019t have to be presented in a traditional essay with a thesis and topic sentences for your paragraphs. Arguments can come in many forms, even stories.<\/p>\n

In the following video<\/a> that you’d click on once linked to the OWL Excelsior “Analyze This” page, watch as a student analyzes a narrative argument, pointing to the key elements of narrative and demonstrating how a story can make for a very persuasive argument.<\/p>\n

To read the full essay reviewed in the video, click\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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With Analysis, Focus Upon Functions or Effects<\/strong><\/h3>\n

At the college level, putting in the right-sounding quotes in the right-looking spots of a body paragraph is insufficient.\u00a0Writers are expected to use the quotes as excuses to argue their points.\u00a0Close reading is a crucial skill which helps the writer make sense of how something makes sense.\u00a0Literature courses largely aim to enhance or bring about readers\u2019 abilities to handle complex, indirect texts that demand multiple responses.<\/p>\n

Close reading is an analytical activity where the writer picks parts of larger whole and discusses how they function.\u00a0This can be done while annotating or deciding what to say about an annotated chunk of text.\u00a0Because your audience often knows the text and has ideas about how it works, it is up to you to do more than simply point out the existence of an important line, phrase, or word.\u00a0Within the line, the critic must move from pointing out an idea to arguing how it functions.\u00a0What effect is created by that phrase?\u00a0How does this word affect readers?\u00a0These questions get proved after careful setup and cited quotation work.<\/p>\n

Once you have dissected a speech, description, or dialogue, remember that you have committed a fairly aggressive, destructive act.\u00a0You yanked a part from the whole.\u00a0Remember to use the late portions of paragraphs to put the pieces back together.\u00a0(\u201cPick up your toys when you are done with them!\u201d)<\/p>\n

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What You Might Look For <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Focus on an author\u2019s use of complexity by discussing the effects of any of the following:<\/p>\n

word choice (diction) word order (syntax)<\/p>\n

connotation\u00a0denotation<\/p>\n

irony (dramatic, situational, verbal)\u00a0symbolism<\/p>\n

mood\u00a0tone<\/p>\n

paradox (seeming contradiction)\u00a0how words fit\/bring about character<\/p>\n

rhetorical appeals (logos, ethos, pathos)\u00a0logical patterns (valid or not)<\/p>\n

Rhetorical modes (description, narration, definition, process, illustration, comparison\/contrast, classification\/division, cause\/effect, argument)Basically, looking for moves of any sort is a good starting point with analysis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t

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