Module A – Comparative Study of Texts Elective 2: Texts in Time (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese) The two comparative texts‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese reflect changing values and perspectives of the modernistic 1920s and the Victorian Era of the mid 19th Century. Through the change in context and literary form‚ The Great Gatsby reshapes our understanding
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Choose one every day and one literary text. Using at least two analytical techniques from E301‚ analyze and compare your two texts in terms of their creativity and literariness‚ drawing on material from both parts of the module. In this paper I will analyze and compare a literary text and an everyday text‚ in terms of their creativity and literariness. I chose Philip Larkin’s (1964) poem‚ ‘Self’s the man’ (see Appendix‚ Text 1)‚ as the literary text for analysis because it is not only smooth and
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Media Text Analysis GOP resists Obama’s call for tax hikes on wealthy http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/hell_no_eekqEcGlY09IuRsTsDaEAI By GERRY SHIELDS and S.A. MILLER Last Updated: 5:47 AM‚ November 16‚ 2012 Posted: 2:14 AM‚ November 16‚ 2012 WASHINGTON — Hell‚ no! Top Senate Republicans yesterday bucked President Obama’s call to soak the rich with higher taxes on the eve of a critical White House meeting today over the economy with the top four congressional leaders. The senators
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literature or any specific text‚ you will strengthen your discussion if you offer specific passages from the text as evidence. Rather than simply dropping in quotations and expecting their significance and relevance to your argument to be self-evident‚ you need to provide sufficient analysis of the passage. Remember that your over-riding goal of analysis writing is to demonstrate some new understanding of the text. HOW TO ANALYZE A TEXT? 1. Read or reread the text with specific questions in
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Anass Elwawi ENGL 2290 Dr.Shawn Casey September 16‚ 2016 Mary Rowlandson Response Paper Mary Rowlandson‚ the daughter of a wealthy land holder in the Massachusetts Bay colony‚ was a victim of the King Philip war. She got married to Joseph Rowlandson at the age of 18‚ they had four children‚ one in which died in infancy. Shortly before the King Philip war ended a group of American Indians attacked the city of Lancaster and captured Mrs. Rowlandson along with her 3 children and a group of settlers
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Zoom Tool Swap Fill & Stroke (arrow) Stroke Control Format Affects Text Apply Gradient Apply None Preview Mode Direct Selection Tool - Selects only the content of a frame‚ selects individual items within a group without having to ungroup‚ also reshapes frames Type Tool** - Adds or edits text Line Tool - Adds linear elements to the page; use stroke palette to determine thickness Rectangle Tool** - Creates shapes for graphic or text areas Scale Tool - Enlarges or reduces page elements *Should not be
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The module comparative study of texts should remain in the Board of Studies syllabus as it can provide a powerful insight into the human condition and social values of an era. The play “Away” by Michael Gow and poems published in “Sometimes Gladness” written by Bruce Dawe are both texts which reflect similar conditions that the typical person living in suburban Australia between the 1950’s and 1960’s experienced. There were many significant events that took place during these two decades such as
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Non-literary text forms an independent part of a publication .Non-literary texts are informational writing: factual material‚ informational explanations‚ newspaper articles‚ textbooks‚ journal and diary entries‚ and so forth that are published in newspapers‚ Informative magazines current affairs news and educative articles. Non-literary composition uses facts and figures to proof a point. Examples of non-literary texts are personal diaries‚ current affairs news‚ journals‚ text books and articles
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Steps to Text Analysis Recommended Steps in Text Analysis Introduction: briefly define the text type (the functional style and the genre)‚ the topic‚ the problems raised‚ the cultural and historical background of the author and his text. Useful tips: The first step includes defining the type of the text you are analyzing. Does the text represent fiction/belles lettres style/non-fiction? Is it a whole text or an extract? If it is fiction what genre does the text represent? It should be noted that
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Different Types of Text 1. Analytical Exposition Text Definition of Analytical Exposition Exposition is a text that elaborates the writer‘s idea about the phenomenon surrounding. Its social function is to persuade the reader that the idea is important matter. Generic Structure of Analytical Exposition 1. Thesis: Introducing the topic and indicating the writer’s position 2. Arguments: Explaining the arguments to support the writer’s position 3. Reiteration: Restating the writer’s position Language
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