Unit 3 WK 4 pg. 2 of 4

We covered a lot of reading strategies last week.

A Writer's Reference offered us several strategies, and we also reviewed many strategies in the Reading videos on Film on Demand.

These reading strategies are just some of the ways we can develop deep analysis skills, and it is the deep analysis of text that fosters excellent writing.

The word gets tossed around a lot, but what exactly does it mean to "analyze" a text? A Writer's Reference shares this important definition: "Whereas a summary most often answers the question of what a text says, an analysis looks at how  a text makes its point" (76). 

Thus, when we analyze a text, we look at its parts and how they are interrelated, and we look at the content of the text and how the writer chooses to convey that content to the reader. 

When annotating, we gave our observations and reflections about a txt, and we asked questions of the text. For analysis, we must examine the thesis statement, the individual sentences, the implied questions, the details and descriptions and how they develop the main points and subpoints of the essay, and the author's logic and reasoning.