Analysis The Three Little Pigs or Little Red Ridinghood

Note: Prewriting, drafts, worksheets, and workshop attendance are required components of this essay that help you stay on track and to help me detect plagiarism. All essays are subject to scrutiny for plagiarism; therefore, if you are unable to provide workshop drafts (initialed by me), prewriting, notes, or any relevant work as evidence that this paper is the product of your own thinking, your instructor will be obliged to infer that your essay is plagiarized. Advice: come to class; participate, save all drafts, notes, etc.
Use the process/schedule to avoid procrastination: if you are not present at workshops or miss any prewriting, drafting or revision component of this assignment you risk receiving an F on your paper. Contact me BEFORE due dates if an unavoidable absence (such as a family emergency or illness) interferes with participation (see syllabus–participation policy).
Analysis: what, how, why
Analytical writing requires you to methodically [quest]ion, examine and explain one element or concept in your source text. For example, in Viramontes’ The Cariboo Café, you will discover a peculiar structure, or storytelling strategy. The story is not linear (a traditional story structure; what happens first, next, last, as in The Three Little Pigs or Little Red Ridinghood). Instead there are three stories in one resembling “broken glass,” a metaphor for the story’s disrupted structure and the traumatized nature of the characters*.
Topic: You will draw your own topic from any ONE reading from any ONE of our course texts. As in the first assignment, you are to develop your topic from the reading; do NOT select a topic then find a reading to support it. Read the essay you select closely. Observe details, take notes; determine what writing skills, strategies or devices the author used to get his or her point across.
Thesis: Your thesis should be explicitly stated in the first paragraph (a traditional academic convention) and explain what you are analyzing, how, and why.
Analytical thesis   What   How   Why
Specific Topic   Method   Significance
story structure in Cariboo Café   signs/ metaphors   broken structure broken lives

Example thesis: The “broken glass” imagery not only symbolizes the fractured structure of Cariboo Café, but defines the “broken” nature of the three main characters ( ).
[this main idea focuses on the state of disruption in both the story’s structure and the character’s lives]
Task: Conduct a textual analysis of a reading of your choice from our course texts (in other words, read your text selection closely to determine how one or more of the following features relate to content: grammar, style, rhetorical strategies, imagery, language, structure, etc.). Write a 4 to 5 page analysis (not 3 ½ pages or 3 ¾ pages)

Process: for this paper you must
1.   Analyze ONE reading from our course textbooks (you may also select a reading from www.bedfordstmartins.com/barnetbedau click on Top Links) and derive your narrowed topic from the writing strategies, devices, and skills evident in the essay.
2.   Present an explicit analytical thesis in the opening paragraph (be sure to appeal to your readers as people who can read the essay for themselves—DO NOT summarize your chosen reading.
3.   Organize your ideas in a logical, methodical manner (using one or a combination of analytical strategies) as suggested in your thesis*.
4.   Develop your essay by expanding upon your thesis in terms of your narrowed topic.
5.   Maintain objectivity (present a non-biased stance). Avoid giving your personal opinion. Support your assertion with objective evidence. Avoid “I think” and “I believe” statements.
6.   Include a works cited page. Quotes must be documented in MLA format.
7.   Your essay score will be based upon the effective use of analysis in all stages of writing this paper and the Language Arts Division grading rubric.
*Analytical Strategies:                Questions:
Classification & Division   What type / what part
Process   How
Cause & Effect   Why
Comparison / Contrast   Similarities / Differences
Definition   Meaning

* This method of analyzing a story is called semiotics (the study of signs, symbols, and signification). This analytical method, among others, will be discussed in class. Semiotics is only one way to analyze how meaning is created. [For a short video go to http://youtu.be/rEgxTKUP_WI] Author: Thomas Streeter http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/
Textual features to look for: authors purpose, main character motives, language, style (length and complexity of sentences, formal or informal), imagery (words & phrases that describe sensory information), tone, audience/spectator reaction, socio-cultural issues (contexts such as class, economics, gender, sexuality, censorship, race/ethnicity, cultural imperialism), claims, and evidence. DO NOT rely on plot summary; summaries can be stated in one sentence or less.
NOTES

Process / Schedule: Avoid procrastination by following this program
Prewriting—Select ONE reading from the course textbooks. Read carefully and closely, determine what story features stand out. Perhaps determine the best analytical method. Write a 1-page analysis of your selected reading. For a challenge, determine how the reading critiques American culture. Due ______________
Drafting—Working from your 1-page analysis, extend upon your ideas and write a rough draft. Your draft may be handwritten, but try to make it legible. Your rough draft need not be complete or correct, but it should have a tentative thesis, a plan or rough sketch for organizing ideas and at least one example or quote illustrating your narrowed topic. We will work on refining your thesis in class. Bring your draft to class for workshop on ___________________. After workshop, fill out and obtain my initial on the Rough Draft Worksheet for Essay #2 (see below) before you leave class.
Revising—Re-read and re-work your rough draft. Write a revised draft that demonstrates refinements to your thesis, a clear pattern of development based on one or more analysis strategies, with sentences and paragraphs that are revised for clarity, coherence and correctness. Bring your revised draft for peer review on ___________________________. After the peer review session, fill out the Peer Review Worksheet for Essay #2 (see below) and be sure I initial your worksheet before leaving class.
Editing—Go over your essay one more time using your Editing Checklist (available on the Writing Guides page). Be sure your essay conforms to the Essay Format Guidelines for this class. Consult a college handbook for guidance on mechanics, grammar, punctuation, etc. Submit your finished essay, with you HW#2 (images and 1-page analysis), rough draft and peer review worksheets attached (STAPLED) in the back. (Hold on to your drafts in case I need to review them.)
Due _____________________________________ (there is no excuse for late papers)
Online Students Only: access the Diversity forum on our class website. Post a commentary that evaluates your effectiveness in analytical approaches to writing (not simply articulate what analysis is). Explain why this essay was easy or difficult for you and how you will use analysis strategies for future writing assignments. Respond to the commentaries of two other students. Due dates are flexible but do not wait too long to complete the online writing.
Scoring: Your instructor reserves the right to review any prewriting, notes, drafts in progress, or other in-class exercises used in creating this paper before releasing a score, so keep all work you do on this essay. If you do your work on a computer be sure to print out drafts in progress and keep back-up copies of your work. If your hard drive crashes and you didn’t keep back up copies, oh well! Your essay score will be based on the following components:

Essay #2 Rough Draft Worksheet: Complete and obtain my initial after workshop.
Your Name ________________________ Date Due _______________
1. What is your narrowed (specific) topic?

2. Was your peer group able to detect a tentative thesis statement? Write it here.

3. Which analytical strategy did your peer group find in your essay?

4. Write a brief outline of your essay using one analytical strategy.

5. Did your peer group find any use of “I think” or “I feel” or “I believe” statements in your draft?

Essay #2 Peer Review Worksheet: Complete and obtain my initial after peer review.
Your Name _________________________ Date Due _______________
1. Write your thesis statement here. Does your peer partner find what+how+why?

2. Have your peer partner outline your essay. Does the pattern match your analytical strategy?

3. Did your peer partner detect any lapses in objectivity?

4. Which revision/editing suggestions by your peer partner are most useful?

5. What else do you need to help you complete this paper?

Name:
Date:
Self-assessment¬ of Essay 2: Analysis Essay

Directions: Use the questions below to develop your commentary; evaluate the effectiveness in analytical approaches to writing (not simply articulate what analysis is). After writing your commentary, hand this paper to two other students so they can assess your essay.

Self-assessment questions:
•   Explain why this essay was easy or difficult for you.
•   How you will use analysis strategies for future writing assignments?
•   What did you learn from working in peer workshops and peer review sessions?
•   What trouble did you have in completing this essay?
•   What is your weakest area? What is your strongest?
•   As you anticipate the next assignment, what can you do to make your writing better?
My assessment of essay 2:

Student 1 Response:

Student 2 Response:

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