Analyzing Written Essays
Analyzing Written Essays
WK2 ENG 101
For my first analysis, I chose the Lucy Stone Biography “A Soul as Free as the Air”, which is an Expository Essay that gives examples, facts, written in a fair and impartial way which can be called non-biased. Also the writer uses the third person for the point of view. The Thesis Statement, which is one of four characters of an expository essay, caught my attention right away, and gave me a bit of insight on what this essay was about before I started reading. The title of the essay came from paragraph twelve in a quote from William Lloyd Garrison who was describing his employee; "She is a very superior young woman, and has a soul as free as the air, and is preparing to go forth as a lecturer, particularly in vindication of the rights of women. Her course here has been very firm and independent, and she has caused no small uneasiness in the spirit of sectarianism in the institution."
In my opinion this essay could also be a character study as it focused on Lucy Stone as a person and her accomplishments.
It is organized as a Time Order, listing the important events in her life in chronological order with specific dates, starting from her birth in 1818 to her death in 1893 at the end of the essay. Space Organization within an essay lists and organizes ideas. This was not the case of this particular reading.
The way it was organized helped me understand her growth into a radical free thinker who accomplished amazing firsts in the Suffrage Movement: First woman to graduate college, first woman to give a public speech, first woman to marry and not take her husbands name, start a newspaper, limited voting rights, and the first woman to be cremated. This essay also gave examples and facts based on one of the four characteristics of an expository essay where one of her talks was quoted by Crediting Leslie Wheeler with “Lucy Stone; Radical Beginnings in Feminist Theories: Three Centuries of Key Woman Thinkers, in 1983. A second book
WK2 ENG 101
For my first analysis, I chose the Lucy Stone Biography “A Soul as Free as the Air”, which is an Expository Essay that gives examples, facts, written in a fair and impartial way which can be called non-biased. Also the writer uses the third person for the point of view. The Thesis Statement, which is one of four characters of an expository essay, caught my attention right away, and gave me a bit of insight on what this essay was about before I started reading. The title of the essay came from paragraph twelve in a quote from William Lloyd Garrison who was describing his employee; "She is a very superior young woman, and has a soul as free as the air, and is preparing to go forth as a lecturer, particularly in vindication of the rights of women. Her course here has been very firm and independent, and she has caused no small uneasiness in the spirit of sectarianism in the institution."
In my opinion this essay could also be a character study as it focused on Lucy Stone as a person and her accomplishments.
It is organized as a Time Order, listing the important events in her life in chronological order with specific dates, starting from her birth in 1818 to her death in 1893 at the end of the essay. Space Organization within an essay lists and organizes ideas. This was not the case of this particular reading.
The way it was organized helped me understand her growth into a radical free thinker who accomplished amazing firsts in the Suffrage Movement: First woman to graduate college, first woman to give a public speech, first woman to marry and not take her husbands name, start a newspaper, limited voting rights, and the first woman to be cremated. This essay also gave examples and facts based on one of the four characteristics of an expository essay where one of her talks was quoted by Crediting Leslie Wheeler with “Lucy Stone; Radical Beginnings in Feminist Theories: Three Centuries of Key Woman Thinkers, in 1983. A second book