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Writing Analytically

Chapter Nine

Characteristic Features

Insight gained from your analysis:

The insight you gain from your analysis will become your thesis statement.

Clear, precise language:

Use the plain style to ensure that your audience clearly understands your analysis.

A question that prompts you to take a closer look:

While it isn't necessary to state your question explicitly, it is essential that your purpose is clear.

Some description of the subject you are analyzing:

Include contextual information as well as summary of the argument you are analyzing. Consider how much information your audience will need to know.

Evidence drawn from close examination of the subject:

Intensely examine the argument, identifying how the rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos, and logos, are used in order to persuade the audience.

Characteristic Features

Writing Analytically

No matter the type of analysis you are conducting, consider the following key features of the genre:

  • A question that prompts you to take a closer look;
  • Some description of the subject you are analyzing;
  • Evidence drawn from close examination of the subject;
  • Insight gained from your analysis;
  • Clear, precise language.

Analysis is an important skill that you will draw upon in all of your college courses and beyond.

Generally speaking, there are four types of analysis to be aware of:

  • Rhetorical analysis, which focuses on a written, visual, audio, or multi-modal text;
  • Process analysis, which focuses on a process, how something is done;
  • Causal analysis, which focuses on why something occurred;
  • Data analysis, which focuses on quantitative or qualitative sets of information.

"When you analyze something, you break it down into its component parts and think about those parts methodically in order to understand it in some way"

(p. 137).

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