Write a 1000 word paper that is a referential analysis. Choose either an essay from your text or a non-fiction magazine article for your subject. Your essay will be a critique (that is an analysis of another piece
of writing) that focuses on technique as well as content. Indicate the author and title of the essay (and title
of magazine if applicable) in a complete sentence in your first paragraph. Note: titles of magazines are
underlined, while titles of essays and articles are put in “quotation marks.”
Avoid first-person commentary (comments such as “I think” or “I believe”) about the article. You
are analyzing the author’s content and technique.
A possible structure for the paper:
Paragraph 1—introduction which includes the author, title of essay, title of magazine, brief summary
of the main points in the essay, and a statement of the main point or thesis of the essay.
Paragraph 2—discussion of the article’s main purpose: expressive, literary, persuasive, or referential;
Identify the characteristics or traits of the purpose which appear; then directly
quote or reference in your own words to passages from the essay which illustrate those
characteristics.
Paragraph 3—discussion of the secondary purpose of the essay, in which you name the secondary
purpose, identify the characteristics or traits of the secondary purpose which
appear, and then directly quote or refer in your own words to passages from the
essay which illustrate those characteristics.
Paragraph 4– discussion of the article’s patterns of organization: narration,
description, evaluation, classification, or comparison/contrast with examples.
Paragraph 5—a conclusion that evaluates the essay by explaining how well the author achieved his
.purpose(s) and used the patterns. Identify the essay’s strengths and/or weaknesses.
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