Before, this assignment I do not think I have done some work with analysis. Most of my experience is with in class discussions verbally analyzing a reading; however, I also did an analysis paper in composition I. It was a process analysis, so we had to take an event–my group chose participating in the school musical–and simply analyze the process. This was somewhat of a fun paper in that class, so I have not one a formal analysis technically.
From what I have read, I learned that there are a plethora of different areas to analyze when reading something. It is easy to read something and initially think it is “good” or “bad,” but it is not until after you go back through and look through all the different components that you can truly depict weather the reading was good or bad.
I think this assignment will be different than the summary because summary did not involve opinion. In the analysis, it’s all about opinion. The summary assignment is relatable to this because in order to complete an accurate analysis, you have to be able to summarize the main points of the reading. Once you get a grasp on what the reading says, you can make an informed analysis.
When planning my analysis, I am going to pick a longer article. After I choose an article, I will obviously read it and get my initial reaction. I plan to make an outline about what topics I want to touch on, based on what the article did and did not do well. Hopefully, I will give myself plenty of time to read the article multiple times and cultivate an accurate analysis.