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WRITING ANALYSIS

WRITING ANALYSIS. A STUDY OF SYNTAX. ELEMENTS OF SYNTAX. SENTENCE LENGTH NUMBER OF SENTENCES RHYTHM OF SENTENCES SENTENCE BEGINNINGS – VARIETY OR PATTERN VOICE WORD ORDER/ARRANGEMENT OF IDEAS SENTENCE TYPES. SENTENCE LENGTH. STACCATO – ONE OR TWO WORDS, ABRUPT

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WRITING ANALYSIS

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  1. WRITING ANALYSIS A STUDY OF SYNTAX

  2. ELEMENTS OF SYNTAX • SENTENCE LENGTH • NUMBER OF SENTENCES • RHYTHM OF SENTENCES • SENTENCE BEGINNINGS – VARIETY OR PATTERN • VOICE • WORD ORDER/ARRANGEMENT OF IDEAS • SENTENCE TYPES

  3. SENTENCE LENGTH • STACCATO – ONE OR TWO WORDS, ABRUPT • TELEGRAPHIC – SHORTER THAN FIVE WORDS • SHORT – APPROX. 5-10 WORDS • MEDIUM – APPROX. 15-20 WORDS • LONG – 30 OR MORE WORDS

  4. SENTENCE TYPES • DECLARATIVE – STATEMENTS • INTERROGATIVE – QUESTIONS • IMPERATIVE – COMMANDS, REQUESTS • EXCLAMATORY • SIMPLE SENTENCES - 1 SUBJECT, 1 PREDICATE • COMPOUND SENTENCES – TWO OR MORE INDEPENDENT CLAUSES JOINED WITH COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS, TRANSITIONAL WORDS/PHRASES, SEMICOLONS, OR COLONS

  5. SENTENCE TYPES • COMPLEX SENTENCES – ONE INDEPENDENT CLAUSE AND ONE DEPENDENT CLAUSE • COMPOUND-COMPLEX – TWO OR MORE INDY CLAUSES AND AT LEAST ONE DEPENDENT CLAUSE • FRAGMENTS AND RUN-ONS

  6. SCHEMES – A CHANGE IN THE NORMAL WORD ORDER IN A SENTENCE • LOOSE SENTENCES – MAIN POINT IS AT THE BEGINNING; FRONT LOADED • PERIODIC SENTENCE – MAIN POINT AT END, END LOADED • NATURAL ORDER – SUBJECT BEFORE MAIN VERB • INVERTED ORDER – VERB BEFORE SUBJECT • INTERRUPTED SENTENCE – SUBORDINATE CLAUSE IN MIDDLE SET OFF BY DASHES OR COMMAS • BALANCE ISSUES - PARALLEL STRUCTURE • BALANCE ISSUES – ANTITHESIS – MAKES USE OF CONTRAST FOR EMPHASIS

  7. SCHEMES • BALANCE – PARALLELISM • Her purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to startle the complacent. • BALANCE – ANTITHESIS • “Evil men fear authority; good men cherish it.” • INTERRUPTION • New developments in a language, it seems, tend to arise in colloquial speech.

  8. SCHEMES • OMISSION • “And he to England shall along with you.” • REPETITION • “I’m nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody too?Then there’s a pair of us-don’t tell!They’d banish us you know.” –Emily Dickinson

  9. SCHEMES • ANAPHORA – REPETITION OF WORD OR PHRASE AT THE BEGINNING OF SUCCESSIVE PHRASES, CLAUSES, SENTENCES "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost shall be." • ANASTROPHE – NORMAL WORD ORDER IS CHANGED FOR EMPHASIS "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." • ANTITHESIS – CONTRASTING WORDS, PHRASES, SENTENCES, OR IDEAS ARE USED IN PARALLEL GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES FOR EMPHASIS "Evil men fear authority; good men cherish it."

  10. SCHEMES • APOSTROPHE – PERSON OR ABSTRACT QUALITY IS DIRECTLY ADDRESSED THOUGH NOT PRESENT “Dear God, sorry to disturb you” • EPISTROPHE – REPETITION OF WORD OR PHRASE AT THE END OF SUCCESSIVE PHRASES, CLAUSES, SENTENCES "He's learning fast; are you earning fast?"

  11. SCHEMES • ASYNDETON – USING NO CONJUNCTIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SPEED OR EFFICIENCY “I came I saw I conquered.” • POLYSYNDETON – USING TOO MANY CONJUNCTIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF EMPHASIS “I am taking AP Physics and AP English and AP Psychology and AB Calc and AP Econ and AP Bio.”

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