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(Research Paper Workshop Worksheet cont.) 5). As we’ve seen, successful analytic writing involves interplay of claims and evidence. In the paragraph directly following the thesis statement, go through the paragraph sentence by sentence, identifying each time you see a claim and each time you see evidence. (Write a “C” or “E” above each sentence to indicate what you see.) In this paragraph, are there areas in which claims are not adequately supported with evidence? How about evidence that is analyzed in a way that shows how the writer sees the evidence proving the claim? Are the claims and evidence strong enough to provide analytic insight? Focus on this paragraph and offer whatever suggestions or compliments you feel relevant. 6). Locate other sections of the essay in which the author provides evidence without thoroughly analyzing it. In other words, places where the author seems to be using evidence to tell us about something (or report) rather than using evidence to uncover assumptions, implications, etc. in order to make his/her own argument stronger. Mark these sections in the text. (Write, maybe, “Analyze more?”) Below, offer suggestions for more effective analysis of a few of these examples.
(Research Paper Workshop Worksheet cont.) 7). At any point(s) in the essay, do you see the writer moving away from analysis and toward either reporting or personal opinion? If so, where exactly do you see this happening? Also, explain to the writer why you feel this doesn’t work and how he/she might improve these sections. 8). As we’ve discussed in class and read in Reading Rhetorically and other handouts, academic, analytic essays constantly develop and refine their chief claims—doing this, in part, by introducing what we’ve called “complicating evidence” and by providing strong transitions that guide the reader from one paragraph to the next. First, have a look at the transitions that link paragraph to paragraph (or, on a larger level, idea to evolved idea). Find at least one example of a successful transition—or some aspect of a transition that works. Then find at least one example of a weak transition—or some aspect of a transition that doesn’t make clear how the argument is progressing. Write each of these below, and explain, in detail, why you believe each one does and does not work.
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