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⚡️ Resource: Writing Cogent and Lucid Literary Analysis
⚡️ Resource: Writing Cogent and Lucid Literary Analysis
Resource_ Writing Cogent and Lucid Literary Analysis.pdf⚡️ Tool: The Literary Analysis Checklist
⚡️ Tool: The Literary Analysis Checklist
Use this resource to:
Familiarize yourself with writing expectations
Self-evaluate your writing - comb through your writing over and over again
Review necessary components
Review structure and organization
Determine your next steps as a writer
⚡️ Tool: Definitions of Authorial Choices
⚡️ Tool: Definitions of Authorial Choices
Review these no matter what.
Reading the definitions, even just one time, can boost your confidence about using them in your own writing.
Let me know if you want any terms clarified.
⚡️ Tool: Sentence Variation
⚡️ Tool: Sentence Variation
Be mindful of not beginning too many sentences with the author's name. And especially not "this." No vague pronoun referents here.
Choose 2-3 you plan to intentionally use in your essay. Some are easier than others.
I'm partial to number 17, begin with an infinitive as the subject.
To say that Bilbo’s breath was taken away is no description at all.
—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Complete-Web-Sentence Variation Models.pdf⚡️ Actionable Feedback
⚡️ Actionable Feedback
Illustrated by Class I discipuli in SL English.
1. Contextualize your argument - what’s the big picture in the text? (Criterion A)
2. Contextualize your evidence - what’s happening in the text? (Criterion A)
3. Center your thesis on the author’s purpose - they wrote this text in this way in this medium in order to? (Criterion B)
4. Topic sentences should guide your reader through your chain of argumentation. (Criterion B/C)
5. Include signposts to indicate where you are in the text and/or your argument (Criterion C)
6. Situate the reader using larger choices, such as conflict, setting, or characterization. (Criterion B/C)
7. Use vivid and flavorful verbs to add nuance and depth to your analysis. (Criterion D)
8. Layer choices into your discussion - what’s working in conjunction or in opposition. (Criterion B)
9. What is the effect on the reader? (Criterion B)
10. How can you evaluate the author’s moves? (Criterion B)
11. Bridge your analysis of choices to the larger thesis. (Criterion B/C)
12. What is the invitation to the audience? (Criterion B)
13. How can you vary sentence length to make your ideas more impactful? (Criterion D)
14. Drop the mic or hammer an idea home with a dramatically short sentence or a fragment or three. (Criterion D)
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