1.INTRODUCTION (mention the author of the article, the source, the title of the article)
a) The article\ essay\ extract\ text under analysis is intitled…
b) It is written by …(an outstanding linguist and methodist…)
2.SUBJECT-MATTER OR ANNOTATION (the theme, the aim of the author, the gist\ the crux\ the essence\ the salt of the article)
a) The author gives a clear picture of…\ the author aims at depicting…
b) The author gives his account of the dramatically devastating problem of…The author strives not only to present his personal view point on the issue, but to suggest some solutions to the problem on the agenda, selecting and analyzing the most relevant (essential) facts (details). The basic idea of the text under consideration is …(define the central problem\ problems, citing\ quoting the text proper). It should be rightly noted that the author clearly states some other problems, namely…Thus, analyzing these problems the author perceives the aim to find some reasonable solution to these issues or at least to prove that…
3.THE TYPE OF STYLE (WRITING), SUBSTYLE (IF ANY). GIVE PROOF.
a) the article\ essay\extract\text under analysis comes as a brilliant sample of a publiscistic writing, namely, an expository \a discriptive\ a narrative\ an informative essay
b) Speaking about its structure, I would like to highlight that it naturally falls into … sections:
4.WHAT ELSE CHARACTERIZES THE TEXT:
• WHAT MAKES IT SUBJECTIVE:
Tone, attitude, stylistic devices (on the lexical level, on the syntactic level), expressive means (emphatic inversion, intensifies or downtoners, rhetorical questions…)
a) It is important to mention that the prevailing tone of the text is rather encouraging cheerful optimistic the author sounds hopeful of some crucial changes in the situation\ sympathetic\ matter-of-fact, casual\ serious\ humorous\ dramatic\ sarcastic\ ironical\ bitter\ nostalgic
c) The essay