English Composition › Section P · Print or textual analysis › Topic P.1
Textual analysis and academic genres
Saying you liked a story is a reaction; explaining how its words and patterns create meaning is analysis. Textual analysis is one of the central academic genres, and its habits of close attention carry into lab reports, abstracts and exam essays too.
In this topic
- Beyond liking or disliking
- Textual versus rhetorical analysis
- An argument about meaning
- Interpretive communities
- Terms for story and structure
- Terms for language and sound
- The plot-summary trap
- Worked example: from reaction to thesis
- Worked example: summary versus analysis
- Analysis in other academic genres
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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