DDickens Analytical Writing Tips Show: Recent Episodes
Dewayne Dickens
This session provides an overview of the functions that a paragraph serves in moving a paper forward.
In your reflective, self-analysis stage of reviewing your writing, you should look at your writing on both a basic and deep level. The basic strategies of writing include simple organization with topic sentences that further develop the thesis and are organized in an easy to follow manner, using parallelism, varied sentence structure, and strong verbs. The deeper-level writing strategies focus more on inferential skills that require readers to connect with your messages that speak in metaphor, personification, irony, mood, sarcasm, satire, or other more sophisticated writing that has a sense of style representative of college-level thinking and communication.
Writers should review professional writings as models to study the moves that help in supporting points and making the case for strong arguments in writing. The goal is not to use the specific example; instead, the goal is to identify specific moves/templates that can be used to strengthen a writer's strategies for good analysis and argumentation.