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Textual Analysis Notes to help with mural essay.

There are certain key elements that comprise a textual analysis essay. These are:

SUMMARY: whatever the “text” is , you need to assume that the readers do not have any idea what or who it is about. Aim to give a summary in your analysis  to include them in the conversation, to make sure they can follow the details.

Pay attention to the Context: any type of text that you look at is part of an ongoing conversation, a controversy, or a debate. To understand it, you need to understand the larger picture.

Interpretation: Your goal is to lead your readers through a careful examination of the text to some kind of judgement, and this is generally announced in the thesis statement.

When you interpret something,you explain what you think it means.

Support your analysis with evidence- this comes from actual parts of the text.

When you analyze a text, your goal is to understand what it says, how it works, and what it means. You may want to follow a certain sequence to better come up with an argument.

Look at your paper right now and apply these steps to your own textual analysis.

1. Read to see what the text says- literally. Look for actual words, ideas, key words, phrases, etc. that seem worthy or questionable. Look for these in the image of your mural.
2. Think about your response to the text’s words. What is your reaction to the tone, to the language, to the image? Do you find it difficult to understand? Summarize it and describe it in the paper.
3. Look at how the TEXT works. Texts are made up of several components--words, sentences, images, lines, angles, colors, light and shadow. Look for patterns in the way they are used.
4. Think about the larger context. To analyze a text’s role in its larger context, you may need to think about the text outside of the actual image itself ( like the neighborhood around it or think about the people who view it)
5. Come up with a thesis. Do you want to show the text has a certain meaning? A certain purpose?

Textual Analysis Assignment

Due Date

You should aim to visit your mural by October 27th. We will workshop after that.

What We’re Writing

So far this semester, you have been practicing the skills of summary and analysis, using persuasive techniques and also relying on your own narratives and lived experiences. For this next assignment, you will step outside your own experience and analyze a text that you will have to become familiar with. 

This essay is a thesis-driven analysis of a visual text: a mural of your choice. Each of you will visit several murals highlighted by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, choose one of those murals on which to focus your analysis, and then argue what the message of your chosen mural is. You must physically visit your mural. You will use evidence from the mural (color palette, facial expressions and body language of any people who are depicted, texture of the paint, location, etc.) to argue what you think the mural is saying. 

Your essay should include an introduction, a thesis, close reading of your feature to provide evidence for your claim, and a conclusion that “expands” your topic rather than shuts it down (sometimes we refer to this as the “so what?” of an essay). If you’d like, you can think of this essay as a profile of a place. Often, journalists will profile significant spaces in a city by explaining why they are important—giving them meaning within the context of the city. You can do the same. What role does your mural play in the larger persona or character of the neighborhood in which it is situated? 

Purpose

This essay will give you some more practice with summary, analysis, and reflection. It also acquaints you with the city that you live in and gets you into the routine of “reading” the world around you, not just blithely letting it pass you by. Seeing the world like a writer or a researcher allows you to see it differently, more specifically—sharper. Put on this hat for a change and see what you can notice that you wouldn’t normally see. 

Audience

All of us; all writing is up for peer review.

Specifics

Times New Roman 12, double-spaced, font size 12. 1000-1500 words. 

Essay 2: Crafting an Argument

As we have been discussing in our course, arguments come in many different forms and compile a large variety of topics. For our next paper, you are asked to explore one of the prompts below to craft a formal argument. You should aim to include those important elements we have been speaking of, including but not limited to: a solid introduction to your topic, a well formed thesis( claim) to your essay, successful body paragraphs that connect to your main point, followed by a well informed conclusion.

You are also asked to being using research ( on a small scale level) in this paper. I am asking you to find two scholarly, credible sources to support/refute a claim in your paper. Try NOT to use websites, but rather, to get practice with using other types of research. Also, make sure to present the argument in a neutral POV.

Keep in mind:

--An argument is a group of sentences advocating a position. An argument proposes a position and then uses evidence– a series of reasons– to support the proposed position.

--The strength of an argument lies not just in what is said, but also in how it is said and the reasons which support it.

--The main point of the argument, or the position that is to be proved by the argument, is the most important element of the argument. This point should be absolutely clear to anyone who reads the argument.

--The best arguments are logically ordered, with a chain of reasoning connecting the evidence to the thesis. A reader who follows this chain will be led to agree to the thesis. 

Take a look at the following prompts. Think about each, and pick one to form/ craft an argumentative response. You may also pick a prompt to respond to from Room for Debate off of the New York Times ( which a link is on the blog)

How has digital music changed the listening experience? Positively? Negatively? Argue and craft a response with the appropriate sources to this question.

Will drawing technology, such as drawing apps on the Ipad, Internet, Kindle, etc., make paints and other forms of art mediums become obsolete? Why or why not? Support your argument with specific evidence

Are forms of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. the end of privacy or the beginning of a new era

Schools Are For Learning, Not Fashion. Argue for or against this statement and support your reasoning with evidence.

Are there better ways to inform consumers about what they are eating? Is listing the nutrients and serving sizes seems silly when it comes to chips, cookies, soda. Would a straightforward warning be better when it comes to “junk” food

Is the research paper still justifiable as a means of grading a college student's performance?

Literacy Narrative Prompt is below:

Essay 1: The Literacy Narrative
Total Page Length: 2 to 3 pages, double spaced, typed. Times Roman font.
For Thursday, September 11th: A rough draft, typed to workshop with your peers, of just your narrative on paper. Estimated final due date is Tuesday, September 16th. This is your first attempt at the literacy narrative, at your way of telling, or perhaps re-telling your writing and/or reading journey.


Literacy Narratives are (non-fiction) story-telling that re-creates and examines significant past experiences in which reading, writing (or perhaps speaking, listening) figure prominently; literacy narratives focus on key stages or events in one's development as a literate (reading, writing, thinking, speaking, listening) person.  A Literacy Narrative is autobiographical, and writing such essays can help you discover and evaluate the role(s) literacy has played in your life, reveal the sources of your present attitudes and abilities, deepen your understanding of how/why you have developed into the kind of reader, writer, thinker, communicator that you have become.

A Literacy Narrative prompts you to explore, remember, reflect upon, analyze important moments, experiences, or stages of development in your own personal writing, reading (speaking, listening, thinking) history: e.g., influential events, scenes, people; stages; turning points or moments of insightful realization; failures and/or successes; "border crossings" or passages into new, different kinds of language, reading, writing, communication, thinking.

Alternatively--since there are many kinds of "literacies"--Literacy Narratives can also address other kinds of literacies, such as visual literacy, computer literacy, science literacy, film literacy, etc.

Literacy narratives can be about composing letters, Facebook pages, song lyrics,’ zines, blogs, maps, essays in school—anything at all that you compose, or any story about teaching writing.

Literacy narratives can be sad or happy, poignant or funny, informative or incidental. Literacy narrative often focus on powerful memories about events, people, situations, places—times when you tried and succeeded or tried and failed; someone who gave you a chance or took one away; situations when someone taught you how to do something or when you taught someone else; churches and schools, contests and performances, plays and public presentations.
Did you learn to read by studying the back of a cereal box? Do you remember the first time you thought of yourself as a writer? When you got (or lost) your first library card? The bedtime stories your parents used to read to you? Your favorite book?

Have you ever felt illiterate? Can you tell us a story about a time you were punished for reading (or not reading)? A time when you were rewarded for writing insightfully?
As you develop ideas for your narrative, think about the forms of media we use to communicate today. In a formal manner, we communicate via email and we submit digital résumés when looking for employment. In a less formal manner, we post images and videos and update our status in Facebook and Twitter. Blogging has become a ubiquitous form of communication and occurs in both formal and informal ways. Posting in Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or in a blog has become so common that we often do not consider the digital literacy we are using.

Even before you read the formal definition of a genre in writing, what has been your favorite genre to read or write in thus far? Is there a particular genre that you really want to like, but don't? Is there a certain genre that you would like to read more of, or perhaps even try to write?