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ENGLISH 098 Interpretive Analysis

ENGLISH 098 Interpretive Analysis. Exercise and Invention Strategies for Comparative Analysis. PART ONE.

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ENGLISH 098 Interpretive Analysis

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  1. ENGLISH 098Interpretive Analysis Exercise and Invention Strategies for Comparative Analysis

  2. PART ONE • Take ten minutes to list everything you know or think you know about me. Feel free to take as many guesses as you need, but make sure they are educated guesses, not random. Include all the obvious details you know about me, too. Consider the hobbies or activities you think engage me when I'm not working. • Based strictly on this list (it MUST be related to the statements on your list) choose one belief or one stance you think is important to me, however, it must NOT related to being an English teacher. • Based strictly on this stance or belief you think is important to me, choose one and only one nickname you would be comfortable using to introduce me to your friends, should we ever meet by chance off campus. (Warning. You won't actually be able to use this nickname, unless I say so.)

  3. PART TWOStay in your groups and turn to on the stories in English Skills With Readings, assigned for discussion this week: • Discuss the following in exactly the order they are presented here: • Title: As a nickname for the essay, what assumptions about the content, the meaning, the themes, etc., does the title imply? • Issue: What main argument does the essay hope to inspire in its readers (i.e., a thesis statement)? Where do you find evidence of the author(s) making this main argument? • Facts and Inferences: What details, points, assertions, and support are used in the essay to make the main argument? • Write down three points--three smaller arguments--the authors make or imply. • What narrow (limited) topics are these points about? GROUPS 1, 3, and 5 "Joe Davis: A Cool Man” (p. 649) Beth Johnson GROUPS 2, 4, and 6 "A Drunken Ride, A Tragic Aftermath" (p. 753) Theresa Conroy & Christine M. Johnson

  4. PART THREE Combine forces with a group that discussed the other essay, and lead a discussion in which you both compare your answers. Record the following: • Find three points, three topics or three criteria that these two essays share in common. • In spite of this, do both essays inspire readers in the same way? Do they have the same agendas, or not? Discuss why (or why not). • Find three major differences in the way each of these essays is developed to inspire its readers.

  5. COMPARING WHAT? • Apples to Apples • Unifying theme: • a similar context • two or more subjects share one major characteristic • helps to identify a common agenda for comparing and contrasting • “agenda”: a motive or purpose

  6. COMPARING HOW? • Common Criteria • common ways in which two or more subjects share a unifying theme • sharing the same features or qualities to discuss one subject, then another • Categories of similarity: what sorts of qualities do they have in common • Ways to determine their differences • Kinds of traits; not examples of traits (e.g., having a common design aesthetic instead of sharing the color “green”)

  7. COMPARING WHY? • Why should my readers care? • What is my main purpose for comparing two or more subjects? • What argument do I hope to prove? • To what do I want to call the reader’s attention about these two or more subjects? • How do I hope to inspire my readers by discussing the similarities and differences? • What statement about the unifying theme am I making? (What’s my underlying agenda?)

  8. COMPARATIVE TOPIC POINTS • Introduce • A. The general unifying theme (e.g., inspiration) • B. Two subjects (two ways to inspire; two kinds of inspiration; two definitions or ways of looking at inspiration. • Two major examples of these two subjects • Two inspiring people. • Take a minute or two to write such a topic sentence that introduces the two individuals you have chosen for Paragraphing Assignment #3. • Write “Topic Point” in the margin of your paper. • Check that you have introduced all of the above.

  9. EXPLANATION • Explain in greater detail your topic point. • Clarify ambiguous concepts. • Define terms that your readers might misunderstand: • What is inspiration? • Why can it be further divided into two kinds of inspiration? • Introduce at least three criteria that can be used to distinguish these two kinds of inspiration. • Three general traits that can be used to discuss both kinds of inspiration • Three kinds of topics, attitudes, approaches, perspectives, interpretations, etc.

  10. SUBJECT-BY-SUBJECTSUBJECT A • In the margin of your paper, put the word “SUPPORT” • Choose one and only one of your two chosen individuals to discuss first; • Write “SUBJECT A” in the margin. • Introduce this individual in the following manner: • Which of the two kinds of inspiration does he or she represent? • What is the minimum amount of biographical detail the reader needs to appreciate this individual? • List the same three features your introduced in “EXPLANATION”. • Under each, briefly note an example of their life, their achievements, their influence on others, etc. (i.e., their inspirational qualities or traits) that illustrates this feature.

  11. SUBJECT-BY-SUBJECTSUBJECT B • Choose the second of your two chosen individuals to discuss. • Write “SUBJECT B” in the margin. • Introduce this individual exactly as you did SUBJECT A. • Note one way in which this individual shares a unifying theme with the other individual. (In this assignment, that will mean pointing out what they generally have in common as inspiring people.) • This will be the transition statement from one Subject to the next. • List the same three features your introduced in “EXPLANATION”. • Make sure you use exactly the same order of criteria. • Under each, briefly note an example of their life, their achievements, their influence on others, etc. (i.e., their inspirational qualities or traits) that illustrates this feature.

  12. INTERPRETATIONSYNTHESIS* • Interpret: bring the relevancy of your support into focus; connect it to your topic point • Synthesis: bring together; relate to one another an transform into a coherent view. • Turn your attention to the three criteria that distinguish. • Not your two individuals, but your two KINDS of inspiration. • Examine each criterion separately; answer the following: • How does this one criterion distinguish my two kinds of inspiration? • How do my examples (the differences between my two inspiring people) illustrate this major difference?

  13. CONCLUSIONUNDERLYING AGENDA* • Discuss the value of determining two kinds of inspiration in one or more of the following ways: • What does it teach your readers? • What important idea does it impart to them? • What is the significance of inspiration? • Why is it generally important to think about inspiration in many ways? • How does your discussion of your two inspiring people help to prove that?

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