WritingAnalysisStrat3Alyssa.doc

Read //each piece of the project// carefully and check all that apply. Write specific examples in the space below for //each of the genres// in the project. 1= Evidence 2=Witch Weekly 3=Recipe Book 4=Witches on Broomsticks 5=Dorcas Good 6=Georgy Porgy 7=Living in Salem 8=My life taken from me 9=poppet 10=hands 11=salem song **Genre //___// Examples ** **//What effective choices did the writer make regarding use //** **//of information, appearance, and point of view? //** 1. The reader learns about the topic from the piece. Applies to numbers: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
 * Writing Analysis Strategy: Part III: Analysis of a Multigenre Piece **
 * Each number corresponds to a genre.

2. What visual techniques did the writer use to enhance authenticity and mood? Appearance Appiles to numbers : 2,3,9 Font □  Applies to numbers 5, 8, 10 Arrangement on page □ <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> Applies to numbers : 2,3,10,11 <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Graphics <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> 2,3,8 <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Other <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□

<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 135pt 0pt 13.5pt; tab-stops: 238.5pt; tabstops: 238.5pt; text-indent: -13.5pt;">3. What point of view did the writer select? <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 13.7pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The subject’s <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ applies to numbers: 5,7,8 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">An inanimate object’s <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ applies to 9 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Other <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Organization ** **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">How did the writer choose to organize the piece to //** **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">accomplish the purpose? //** <span style="display: block; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -15.1pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">1. Organizational pattern <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 12.25pt 0.25in; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Chronological <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ applies to 9 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Order of importance <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Categorical <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□applies to "hands" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Inverted pyramid <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Problem solution <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Spatial <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Other <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 135pt 5.1pt 0in;">©2006 by Melinda Putz from //A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project.// Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

**<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">HANDOUT 2F ** <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 135pt 0pt 13.5pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt; tabstops: 31.5pt 45.0pt; text-indent: -13.5pt;">2. Lead <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 13.7pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Makes reader want to read on <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> applies to all except 1 <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 13.7pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Introduces subject <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> 6,7,8,9

<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 135pt 0pt 13.5pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt; tabstops: 31.5pt 45.0pt; text-indent: -13.5pt;">3. Transitions <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 13.7pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Uses words or phrases to link ideas <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> 5,10 <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 13.7pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Ideas lead naturally one to the next <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> 2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 13.7pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Lack of transitions is appropriate for piece <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ 1,2,4,5,6,10,11

<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 135pt 0pt 13.5pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; tabstops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-indent: -13.5pt;">4. Ending <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135pt 1pt 13.5pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 237.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Smooth and natural <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> applies to 6 and 7 <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135pt 1pt 13.5pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Piece feels like a unified whole <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ all <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Writer effectively leaves the reader in <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 12.25pt 13.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">suspense or wonder <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ 1,4,5,8

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 135pt 0pt 13.5pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.5pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Language and Style ** <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 135pt 6.15pt 13.5pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.5pt;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Which word choices are particularly effective? //** <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 13.7pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Specific action verbs <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ applies to 10

<span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 13.7pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Specific nouns <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 13.7pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Unique language use <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135pt 12.25pt 13.5pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Sentence variety <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□

<span style="display: block; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0pt 13.7pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">What language techniques did the writer use to //** <span style="display: block; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 135pt 6.15pt 13.5pt; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.5pt;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">enhance authenticity and mood? //** <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Spelling <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Sentence style <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Dialect <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Register <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="display: block; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 31.5pt 45.0pt 238.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Other <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">□

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 135pt 0pt 0in;">©2006 by Melinda Putz from //A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project.// Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">HANDOUT 2F **//<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 8pt;">(continued) //