WritingAnalysisStrat3vf

Like Wax: A critical Look at gender in Shakespeare 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. **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. □  x You did learn something about it, but it was written in a very biased manner. The title is not very accurate. 2. What visual techniques did the writer use to enhance  authenticity and mood?  Appearance  Font □ X  Arrangement on page □x <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Graphics <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□x <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Other <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□x <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">The entire magazine presented catchy graphics and smooth flowing fonts. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3. What point of view did the writer select? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> The subject’s □X
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Writing Analysis Strategy: Part III: Analysis of a Multigenre Piece **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> An inanimate object’s □

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Other □X

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> There were many different points of views throughout the project. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Organization ** **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">How did the writer choose to organize the piece to //** **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">accomplish the purpose? //** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">1. Organizational pattern <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Chronological <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Order of importance <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Categorical <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Inverted pyramid <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Problem solution <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Spatial <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Other <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□x <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">Magazine

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">HANDOUT 2F ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">2. Lead <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Makes reader want to read on <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Introduces subject <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">X Again, the subject was either misunderstood or mis-titled, although the writer did not go off topic too much. And honestly, most of the articles were very dry, and the articles move slowly. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">3. Transitions <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Uses words or phrases to link ideas <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">X <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Ideas lead naturally one to the next <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">X <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Lack of transitions is appropriate for piece <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">X <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">4. Ending <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Smooth and natural <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">X <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Piece feels like a unified whole <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□x <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Writer effectively leaves the reader in  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> suspense or wonder <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Language and Style ** **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Which word choices are particularly effective? //** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Specific action verbs <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□x <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Specific nouns <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□x <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Unique language use <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□x <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Sentence variety <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□x **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">What language techniques did the writer use to //** **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">enhance authenticity and mood? //** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Spelling <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">X <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Sentence style <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">X <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Dialect <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">X <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Register <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">X <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Other <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">□ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">X The project is titled “A Critical Look at Gender in Shakespeare”, but that is really not what the subject material is about. Calling it a critical look would imply that the writer went at the subject with an open mind, but instead it has a lot of, frankly, feminist type bias. This in and of itself is not a bad thing, but an objective look is probably a better thing to do because you are more open to information that way. Furthermore, with the bias in place the writer jumped to conclusions that upon further examination probably aren’t true, like the analysis of the sonnets. Other than that, the magazine format was reasonably well done although the articles could have been a lot more interesting. There were a few unrelated things put into it, but they added to the magazine feel while staying on the topic of Shakespeare, if not on the topic of gender. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">©2006 by Melinda Putz from //A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project.// Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">HANDOUT 2F **//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;"> (continued) //