Essay #1

Essay #1 is an exercise in “close reading.” Pick a passage (no more than a 1-2 paragraphs) from one of the texts we’ve discussed so far, and carefully analyze some of its patterns, its use of images and language, and its puzzles. You must indicate your selection at the top of your first page by writing it out (include page numbers). Think of your task as showing how the passage works, and what it means, rather than summarize what it says. Remember, this is analysis, not summary.

Concentrate on showing how the text works at the most basic level: pay attention to individual words, sentences, or elements and key ideas that seem central to understand patterns that emerge. How can we interpret these elements? What meaning do they have? How are they related? Why is this important? So what?

Tips for writing:

Your discussion should present relevant textual evidence in a meaningful and logical order. While doing a close reading involves a thought process that moves from small details to larger issues, writing a close reading begins with these larger issues and uses the relevant details as evidence. This is not a thesis-driven analysis, so you don’t necessarily need a traditional thesis. You do need some main idea as your conceptual point of departure (this is really the last step in “doing” an analysis).

Organize the paragraphs around issues of meaning rather than of technique in order to avoid being overly mechanical in the organization of your paper. You do not want to simply write a laundry list of the passage’s features. Make the connections. Also, the order of the evidence presented should not follow the order of the passage being discussed.

Make sure you don’t read so closely that you transform a clear though complex passage into nonsense. Again, the goal is always to analyze, not summarize.

Your essay should be 2-3 pages (not including the passage/image) and should be neatly typed in Times New Roman 12-point font and double-spaced with standard margins and page numbers. Please follow MLA format for any citations. No outside sources are necessary or permitted.

Your will be graded on the following criteria:

Textual Analysis:

Careful and deliberate discussion of evidence from the text

Critical Thinking:

Analysis of evidence. No summary.

So What?

Structure/Organization:

The analysis is presented in a meaningful and logical sequence.

Language and Style:

Generally free from grammatical mistakes- no Run-ons, Comma Splices, or Fragments.

Appropriate language and voice

Careful attention to verb tense. 

( 2 pages, double spaced.)

the picture attached is the passage to write about. 

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