Analysis Essay (20%)

Due date: March 2, 2022

Purpose: Writing an analysis gives you the ability to study a problem or a text in-depth, deepening your understanding of the subject as a whole or a part of it, using your creativity and analytical thinking to make connections among parts and drill down into a part or two. Analysis is a useful skill in college and workplace because it allows you to understand a subject better, enriching your mind, and offer insights for potential problem-solving if it is needed. Whether it is a science youre studying, history, psychology, business management, or English literature, analytical thinking and writing will help you get more out of your courses. Whether you work as a marketing associate, an engineer, a lawyer, or a nurse, the ability to think and write analytically will help you in your job and career.

Task: In this essay, four double-spaced pages long, you will analyze an issue from Lilly Dancygers book Negative Space. Analytical writing is not a personal response, so avoid using I or offering your opinion of the book. Analysis is also not a summary, so retelling the details of the book is not what this essay requires. Begin working on your essay begins with a thought or a question about the book, whose answer is not obvious and may be available if you examine evidence (or text) in the book. Do not attempt to write about the book as a whole. In just four pages, it is difficult, if not impossible, to do so. Besides, a book as a whole is briefly, sketchily analyzed in a book review, and this assignment is not a book review. Avoid the tendency to write about a character in the book in their entirety. Often, when one tries to analyze a large subject from a book for a short paper, one ends up retelling details about that subject from the book. For your analysis, choose a specific, focused subject. Think about what really interests you. Do not choose a topic simply to complete an assignment. You will learn from writing your analysis essay only if you choose a subject in which youre strongly interested. If youre unsure what your essay topic or question should be, think about it with the book in your hand (or available electronically in front of you). Write down on a notepad or in your journal your ideas about potential topics or questions you may explore in the analysis essay. Chapter 7 in The Writers Mindset will offer some guidance on analytical writing. A chapter from a book by Charles Bazerman I have posted on Georgia VIEW is also useful material on analytical writing. Please read from the chapter pages 192 through 197. 

Here is a rough outline of an analysis essay. In the first paragraph, you will introduce the book and the author briefly, in a couple of sentences and no more (this introduction is only to give a context for your essay, so that an unknown reader reading your essay can know what the essay is based on). Next in the first paragraph, you will turn to the question or the topic you would like to analyze, describing this question or topic in clear, straightforward language. Finally, you will end the first paragraph by stating the thesis statement of the essay. This statement is nothing but the point or the main idea your analysis will make reduced to (or encapsulated into) one sentence. In the rest of the essay, you will support, develop, argue your thesis statement. Let each paragraph be about one piece of evidence. Begin every paragraph by telling the reader what the paragraph will be about. You should do this objectively and matter-of-factly without personally addressing the reader or introducing I in the sentence. The last paragraph of the essay should be a brief conclusion. Please do not repeat your thesis statement word-by-word from the first paragraph in the conclusion but instead restate your thesis using different words. 

Use quotations (not too many or too much of a quotation), summaries, and paraphrases from the book as evidence in your essay. You do not have to consult any outside material. I would advise against it. But if you do, please cite it using MLA Style. Please also cite Negative Space using MLA Style. In the formatting of the essay also, use the MLA Style. 

Criteria for Evaluation: I will evaluate the essay based on the quality of your analysis (topic selection and development, in-depth examination, strong support, and so on), as well as the quality of the writing (clear, concise, and correct writing; skillful integration and formatting of quotes; correctly formatted citations; and so on).

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