Purpose and technique
The Structure of the Essay of Analysis
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The Structure of the Essay of Analysis
The main purpose of your essay is to present a major insight into the overall design of a selected passage of writing. That insight is the analytic statement of the essay, similar to a thesis statement or topic sentence. To flesh out the analytic statement, you must explain what you think the writer's purpose is and must give specific examples of writing techniques employed in the original text. In other words, your task is to show your readers the pattern of purpose and technique that you have discovered in a given selection. Because this analytic task is such a specific one, you must take care that you do not gradually slide into a different task, such as a summary or argument. If your essay begins to sound like a paraphrased or summarized repetition of the original selection, you should stop and rethink what you are doing. In the course of your analysis, you may need to summarize or paraphrase a small part of the original as evidence for a claim you make, but such repetition of the original must be limited and have a clear purpose. Similarly, if you find yourself responding more to the content of the piece than to its design, you need to stop and think. Any personal reaction or response that you discuss should be directly related to the overall design. In this kind of essay, you do develop your own thoughts and opinions, but these thoughts and opinions must concern the purpose and technique of the selection's author.
with the title of the book or article and the author. Include a copy if possible; otherwise cite exact page and line references. Next, your analytical statement should clearly state the major purpose and the major techniques of the original. This analytic statement will control all that follows in your essay.
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