Criterion A: I would give myself a 7. I showed a good understanding of the text itself, and I always tried to reference my point to the passage I was given. I did not give myself a higher score though because I felt as if it could have been better.
Criterion B: I would give myself a 4 for this category, because although I did make a reference to the effect on the reader, I barely did it. I should have added more.
Criterion C: I would give myself a 2 for this category, I tried to go in order of the passage as a method or organization but I realized that I had multiple points about one section that I should have mentioned together so it made the analysis seem to go everywhere.
Criterion D: I would give myself a 4 for this category, I think I was pretty coherent throughout my analysis and clear on what I was saying by providing a lot of good examples and references and discussing the book in a way where if I was to talk to someone who hadn’t read the book, they wouldn’t be totally lost by what I was saying.
Sydney:
ReplyDeleteI agree with your self-assessment for the most part; make sure you have a statement of purpose for the passage or a thesis- what is the author trying to do here and how? You jump right over that and it would weaken your score overall because there's nothing to link to/nothing you're trying to prove.
As far as organization- keep linking back to that statement at the beginning of each part/section. Remember that you don't need to go line by line (you can color code or number the examples you want to use). I think you got thrown off by looking at each line in order.
Make sure you bring in a bit more context as far as the novel overall (something little, like why it was written and a brief, brief summary (like 1-2 sentences). Additionally, make sure you really just focus on the passage itself and don't move too far beyond it.
I agree about the reader/effect...think about it like textual evidence of device/techinique that supports thesis, what it's meaning is in the passage, and the effect/ what the reader should understand
(semi-colon...why is it there? As opposed to another punctuation mark? You don't really tell the effect here, for example)