Critical Literary Analysis Essay
One type of informational non-fiction composition that you’ll be working on throughout this course is the critical essay—or, as it’s sometimes called, the analytical essay. A critical
essay is a special variety of the essay of argument; as you’ll recall, this sort of writing offers an analysis of one or more aspects of a text—most often a literary text—and an evaluation of the work’s impact.
As an essay of argument, a critical essay falls more toward the formal, expository end of the scale than did the more personal essays that you focused on first. You’ll be asked to write a critical response to a literary text in each term, with after-school opportunities for more practice and assessment.
The key for a critical response is to reveal how a text relates to the question under analysis in an interpretative versus a literal manner. That is to say, that the writer’s task is to examine the underlying meanings/implications of the text as opposed to a mere plot
retelling. In other words, the MEAN and the MATTER of the text, whereas the SAY is in your evidence!
Sample Question: How does the author of a text(s) show how individuals deal with social expectations that conflict with their own values? Consider the text(s) you have studied in ELA 30-1 class to respond to the question.
OVERVIEW of EFFECTIVE CRITICAL WRITING - Michael Ullyot at University of Calgary:
essay is a special variety of the essay of argument; as you’ll recall, this sort of writing offers an analysis of one or more aspects of a text—most often a literary text—and an evaluation of the work’s impact.
As an essay of argument, a critical essay falls more toward the formal, expository end of the scale than did the more personal essays that you focused on first. You’ll be asked to write a critical response to a literary text in each term, with after-school opportunities for more practice and assessment.
The key for a critical response is to reveal how a text relates to the question under analysis in an interpretative versus a literal manner. That is to say, that the writer’s task is to examine the underlying meanings/implications of the text as opposed to a mere plot
retelling. In other words, the MEAN and the MATTER of the text, whereas the SAY is in your evidence!
Sample Question: How does the author of a text(s) show how individuals deal with social expectations that conflict with their own values? Consider the text(s) you have studied in ELA 30-1 class to respond to the question.
OVERVIEW of EFFECTIVE CRITICAL WRITING - Michael Ullyot at University of Calgary:
- Rigorous & thorough argument
- Writing an Effective Thesis Statement
- Faulty Arguments
- Clear, concise, natural language
- Analysis / Description / Paraphrase / Quotation
- Particular matters of style
- Excessive Verbiage
- Specific terms & phrases to avoid
- Malapropisms
- Specific matters of grammar
- Citation Style
- Presentation Guidelines
- Quoting Primary Texts
- Quoting Critical Texts
- Time Management
- Writing Resources
- Academic Integrity
THESIS - how to and formulas
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DIPLOMA PROMPTS
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STUDENT EXEMPLARS
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CRITICAL ESSAY - how to - ADVICE
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advice_critical_writing_big_deals.doc | |
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How-to Critical Essay.pdf | |
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ela_30-1_mod_3_thinking_critically_lesson_32-1.pdf | |
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approaches_to_argument.pdf | |
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organization_critical_essay.docx | |
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critical_essays_handout.pdf | |
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COHERENCE & UNITY - helping the "flow"
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