Write a 1,200- to 1,500-word essay making sense of a scholarly problem you identify in either Richard Selzers The Knife or Chlo Cooper Joness Contemplating Beauty in a Disabled Body. To find a problem, narrow your focus to a particular passage or related passages that destabilize a status quo. Take the reader on a journey through your inquiry, which will make sense of that problem by analyzing the language and form of the text in order to arrive at a claim about it. In order to arrive at a claim, consider the stakes of that analysis for understanding the essay as a whole. You may find yourself incorporating writing you did in homework assignments leading up to the final essay.
What a textual analysis isnt:
An analysis of a topic. Instead, its an analysis of a texts language and structure that offers a fresh understanding of the text. Successful essays will challenge readers to think differently about your text rather than its topic (eg. the experience of performing surgery or characterizations of beauty, ability, and disability).
A critique or evaluation. The aim of academic writing is rarely to judge or tear down another writer but to generate a fresh interpretation of a text.
Merely a summary of the scholarly problem that the writer themselves notices. While the writers object of analysis is, for example, the roles and responsibilities of the surgeon or what gets included and excluded from definitions of beauty, your object of analysis is the text you choose to write about.
Audience: Your default audience is your fellow UW colleagues and UW instructors. Because not all classes are reading the same essays, assume that your audience hasnt read your text. You will have to introduce them to the author, the text, and the authors project.
Process: All of the writing you do for this project should go in your Essay 1 Project Doc, located on our Courseworks Collaborations page. Youll complete in-class writing and homework assignments, including two rough drafts before tackling a final draft. Youll receive feedback from classmates on both rough drafts. Ill sum up common class issues on the first rough draft and meet with you individually to offer feedback on your second rough draft.
Tip: Focus on textual analysis of language. Cite specific passages and analyze them. Examine not only the authors ideas but how they convey those ideas. Study the text’s language and structure. See the text as a product of choices that create effects on readers.
Key Dates (Note: Your writing for all homework assignments will go in your Essay 1 Project Doc in our class’s Google Drive folder.)
Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Contemplating Beauty in a Disabled Body article.docx
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