O.E.A.: The What and the Why

Oh, hi.

There s o we're gonna be talking about Oh, yea

today it's the type of paragraph writing that we're gonna

use for honors.

What is it?

Why does it matter?

Well, start off.

Oh, yea, is an acronym stands for observation, evidence and

analysis. Let's break those parts down.

First up observation.

This is toe identify something about the piece.

It describes a theme, a motif or something that is

culturally significant about the work answers a question.

And when we have a multiple paragraph s A, we

have a thesis statement that summarizes all of our observations.

So, for example, after you should have already done the

reading for, uh, Garrison and Phillips Letter so an example

for an observation would be Garrison and Phillips Word choice

in their preface is to demonstrate the inability of Douglas's

words to stand on their own in a pre emancipation

period. So what I'm doing there is I am stating

my feelings on the topics.

This isn't a fact.

It might be a fact, but it's the fact that

I am trying to prove this is my argument.

I am arguing in this paragraph that in the time

period Douglas his words were not strong enough to stand

on their own.

And they need a garrison and Phillips to help out

Now. Great.

I've said this.

What now?

Now we jump into the e the evidence We need

direct and indirect evidence from the story.

Direct evidence is direct quotes.

Indirect is how the things are being said.

Maybe we can say this person uses a lot of

adjectives here in this point.

And those adjectives have a negative connotation that could be

evidence. It shows how the writing that you are discussing

proves your point.

And you want to make sure that you introduce the

quote. So the quote that I'm using for this example

paragraph is when Garrison says Mr Douglas has very properly

chosen to write his own narrative in his own style

and according to the best of his ability, rather than

employ someone else.

It is therefore entirely his own production.

Now, why is that evidence?

Well, let's wait a second, and so we tile the

paragraph together.

But I'm when I have that quote.

That is evidence.

All right, so we got our argument.

We've got how the text supports our argument, But now

we need this analysis.

And this is where we're showing why.

Why does this quote support what I am saying?

And so this is why we're talking about connotation rather

than de notation.

A lot of the time we're talking about what it

is saying.

We're going to talk about connotation and D notation tomorrow.

I believe I need to look at my, um, list

to make sure that I have the proper assignments going.

Um, but we are gonna talk about connotation and d

notation this week.

So my example for analysts, in my example.

Paragraph is, While Garrison claims that Douglas's work is original

and freestanding, his claim is undercut by not only his

preface but Phillips following preface.

If Douglas's work was as free, standing in the YM

pre Emancipation Society, both Garrison and Phillips praised would not

be necessary.

So what I'm doing there is I'm talking about the

quote and why it's proving my point and you'll notice.

Quote didn't seem to originally poo proved my point because

I was talking about, like how Garrison was congratulating Douglas

and say like, Oh, this is Douglas his own work,

right? But then I turn it on its head.

You don't have to do that a lot of times.

It's a lot more direct in what we're trying toe

analyze. But sometimes we can do that.

We can.

It's important for us to see like Okay, this is

what he's writing.

But this is one.

This is what he means.

And two, This is the cultural significance off what it's

happening now.

Analysis should also be the longest part of your paragraph.

All right, so let's go on and our for our

full paragraph.

It's simple.

Just put all this together.

Some paragraphs, though they're gonna have multiple evidences and analysis

is so you might have multiple ease.

You might have multiple A's.

It might be O E a E A.

However, there should only be one observation per paragraph.

If you want to put a second observation in, you

just need to start another paragraph.

That's okay.

So, for my example of putting it all together and

you can keep all this down in the notes to

Garrison and Phillips, Word Choice in their preface is demonstrate

the inability of Douglas's words to stand on their own

in a pre emancipation period.

Despite garrisons, tone being jovial and congratulatory, saying things like

Mr Douglas is very properly chosen to write his own

narrative in his own style and according to the best

of his ability, rather than to employ someone else's.

It is therefore, entirely his own production.

Not on Lee are his words patronizing.

They also illuminate a deeper issue.

While Garrison claims that Douglas's work is original and free

standing, his claim is undercut by not on Lee his

preface but Douglas.

But Phillips is following preface.

If Douglas's work was this free standing in the pre

Emancipation Society, both Garrison and Phillips praise would not be

necessary. That's my example.

Prayer graph.

It's a pretty good one, and you know what the

best part is with that?

Oh yea format.

It took me three minutes to write that.

Now I did have knowledge of the piece already, but

I was able to pull exactly what I needed to

format it all down.

That's the okay, but why?

It's concise.

It's clear, it tells me.

It tells the audience that you're writing to what you

believe, how the text support what the text says to

support it and how the text supports it so What's

the big ideas here?

Well, one.

Oh, yah is put into three sections observation, evidence and

analysis and to when you put all three of them

together, you get a pretty great paragraph.

Now, you're not ready to do that yet?

Don't worry.

We're not going to start on that yet.

We're going to take the next couple classes.

It's probably gonna be about the next two weeks to

go over.

First, we're gonna go over the different parts of observation.

Then we're gonna go and put down going, put around

the different parts of evidence.

We're gonna talk about quoting things in that part.

We're gonna talk about citations in that part, too.

And then we're going to dive deep into analysis about

discussing our quotes.

We're gonna do that all in the backdrop of discussing

the slave narrative of Frederick Douglass.

So go on, take a breath.

Take that knowledge check and I'll see you in the

next video.

Until then, keep learning

O.E.A.: The What and the Why

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