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What is Analysis Anyway?

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What is Analysis Anyway?

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  1. Analyzing literature means to look at smaller elements of it (such as characters, plot, imagery, etc.) to think deeply about how those smaller elements contribute to the overall effect of the work. The goal of the paper itself is to communicate your higher-order thinking to your audience (your teacher and your peers) to show that you really understood what you read in a coherently-written piece. This will be added to your working writing folder when we are finished with the writing process. What is Analysis Anyway?

  2. Analysis requires you to think about the work you read and not just tell about it.

  3. Choosing a quote for your analysis • Remember, when you analyze, you don’t just restate a quote. You explain why the quote is important. • To be able to do this, you must select significant quotes from your book. How do you do this?

  4. Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock D. J.'s family members don't talk much, especially about the fact that 15-year-old D. J. does all the heavy work on their Wisconsin dairy farm since her father broke his hip and her two older brothers left for college. Nor do they talk about why D. J.'s mom, a teacher, is so busy filling in for the middle-school principal that she's never home. And they never, ever discuss the reason why her brothers haven't called home for more than six months. So when D. J. decides to try out for the Red Bend football team, she becomes the talk of the town.

  5. Nope.(example of a bad quote) • “Saturday was about the most fun anyone has ever had in the history of the world” (164). • Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. What makes this an example of a bad quote?

  6. Yep.(example of a good quote) • “Then I started thinking that maybe everyone in the whole world was just like a cow, and we all go along doing what we’re supposed to without complaining or even really noticing, until we die” (116). • Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. • What makes this an example of a good quote?

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