Workshop at SJSU: 10-16-10 Super Saturday (Grade Levels 8-12)
"Wide Angle and Close Up: Helping Writers Analyze Text Structure"
by Sarah Nielsen, Comp/TESOL, California State University, East Bay
From middle school to college, students are expected to write a variety of texts including reflective, expository, analytic, and persuasive essays. One strategy that can help student writers to craft effective academic essays is the analysis of other authors' texts. In this workshop, you will try out two techniques for analyzing the structure of academic texts. Wide-angle: analyze an author's rhetorical strategies in laying down a train of thought in an essay. Close-up: how a writer's purpose affects grammatical and lexical choices at the paragraph level. Both techniques can be applied to a wide range of non-fiction texts. Student writers learn how to take an active role in their reading and writing of academic texts.
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