Before beginning to analyze the actual book or essay itself, start by analyzing the title, the author, where the work was published, and when the work was published. The title could possibly state the thesis, the author might state the potential subject, where it was published can determine an audience, and when it was published tells potential reliability and possible language of the essay.
When you start to read an essay, glimpse at the essay entirely before dissecting it. Also, it is good to have a pencil or pen to annotate, so you can remember questions you have while reading or words you don't understand. For lengthy responses to go along with annotations, use a separate sheet of paper or a journal for your thoughts.
Once you've read the essay, summarizing what you have just read is a good way to make sure you understand it. Next, one needs to do some critical thinking in order to harness your knowledge and experiences to evaluate the essay. In doing this, one discusses the author's purpose (exactly what the author is saying). Critical thinking is divided into several operations: analysis, inference, synthesis, and evaluation. Analysis involves classifying and comparing the essay. Inference involves forming conclusions and discovering the author's assumptions based on your knowledge, experience, and analysis. Synthesis involves linking elements of the essay into a whole idea (or ideas) using your aptitudes, interests, and training so that the idea will then contain your sense of the elements' relationships. Evaluation involves judging the quality and forming an opinion on an essay.
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