Write a single, extended paragraph (10-15 sentences) analyzing some specific aspect of the text you have chosen. Remember: you are writing for an uninformed audience, not for your instructors! Assume that your audience only has general knowledge (i.e. a 7th grader’s knowledge) of the events and texts to which you are referring.
- Compose a clear topic sentence that identifies a problem.
- Provide appropriate information about the context.
- Focus on a particular text through which to explore this problem.
- Consider explaining the disciplinary, methodological, or theoretical framework through which you will study the problem.
- Identify the narrative, the genre, and the author.
- Offer evidence—typically four discreet pieces of data—from the source and analyze that evidence for your uninformed reader. Each interpretation needs evidence and vice versa.
- Your analysis in the body of the paragraph should lead logically to an overarching interpretation by the end of the paragraph.
- Use MLA-style in-text references with page numbers in parentheses as needed.
- Make sure you double space!
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