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Textual Analysis in 3 Steps - Chart

This document outlines a 3-step process for analyzing text: 1) Understand the overall purpose or main idea, 2) Look for evidence by annotating words, phrases, and structures, and 3) Prove the main idea by explaining how the evidence conveys the purpose using a chart and SEE paragraph.

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Textual Analysis in 3 Steps - Chart

This document outlines a 3-step process for analyzing text: 1) Understand the overall purpose or main idea, 2) Look for evidence by annotating words, phrases, and structures, and 3) Prove the main idea by explaining how the evidence conveys the purpose using a chart and SEE paragraph.

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TEXTUAL ANALYSIS IN 3 STEPS

TEXT:

Read the text several times, paying close attention to how the writer uses language to create meaning.
STEP 1: UNDERSTANDING - What is the overall purpose or main idea of the text (ex: The poem is trying to convey the idea that..)?

The purpose of the text is: _______________________________________________________________________________________


STEP 2: LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE Annotate the text. What words, phrases, or structural elements jump out at you? Why?
STEP 2: PROVING YOUR POINT - How do you know what the main idea is? How are the words, phrases, or structural elements you found
used to convey the purpose or main idea of the text? (Fill in the chart below).
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE (Quotation)

LITERARY/STYLISTIC DEVICE

EXPLANATION OF DEVICE

LINK TO PURPOSE/MAIN IDEA

TEXTUAL EVIDENCE (Quotation)

LITERARY/STYLISTIC DEVICE

EXPLANATION OF DEVICE

LINK TO PURPOSE/MAIN IDEA

** This information then goes into a well-supported and well-structured SEE paragraph, where the purpose/main idea becomes your
thesis, your devices become your statements (S), and your evidence and explanations are the EE. Just add a concluding sentence!

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