Identify and list and potentially significant features of the passages language or form that is, those textual elements that contribute to the passages overall meaning, purpose, or effect.

You will select one passage from the CRIT passage for DB#2pdf .this handout and use CRIT to analyze it . You will need to type responses for 6step.

Step1: summarize
Give a summary of the factual content of the passage- what the text directly states as it proceeds from beginning to end. What situation is being described here and by whom? What happens in situation? Respond to this prompt in no more than three complete sentences.

Step2: observations
What is seek to accomplish. Identify and list and potentially significant features of the passages language or form that is, those textual elements that contribute to the passages overall meaning, purpose, or effect. Your list of observations should include specific examples of various kinds of textual elements, such as: descriptive details; word choice; repetition of phrases, sounds, or ideas; imagery or figurative language; syntactical structure; Changes in vocabulary,rhythm,or tone; characteristics of narrative voice or perspective. Note that these observations will have to provide the building blocks for your analysis in step 4. Respond to this prompt with a list of features.

Step3 :contextualize
Think about context for the passage. (Contexts are facts or broader circumstances external to a literary work that are important to its production, reception, or understanding; for instance: literary, biographical, political, or historical information.) from your knowledge of any relevant contextual facts or circumstances, or from information provided by your instructor, identify and list any potentially significant contexts for the passage that is ,those contextual frames that contribute to the passages overall meaning, purpose, or effect. These contextualizations may provide additional building blocks for your analysis in step 4 . Respond to this (I.e the step 3 prompt) with a list of contexts.
Step4 :analyze
Review the features and context that you identified in steps 2 and 3 as making potentially significant contributions to the passages meaning, purpose, or effect. Then, select at least four of textual elements and/or contextual frames and explain how each is in fact significant. These analyses should state clearly and forcefully what each item contributes to your understanding of the passage. Note that these analyses will have to be connected in step 5, where you will argue for a unified interpretation of the passage as a whole. Respond in one to two sentences per feature or context. Each analysis should include the phrase: is significant because.
Step 5 :argue
Re- read the work you have produced thus far. Using your observations and analyses in the preceding steps, write one paragraph ( at least five sentences) that conveys your interpretation of the passage. State the main thesis of your interpretation of passage. State the main thesis of your interpretation that is, the central claim you are arguing forand then support that thesis by presenting the evidence you gathered in step 1 through 4. Note that your paragraph should integrate and build upon your responses to the step 4 prompt; your observations and analyses should also add up to an interpretive conclusion about the passage as a whole.
Step 5 reflect
Now that you have advanced an argument, re-read the the passage again. Then, answer the following questions: what aspects the passage do you still find confusing? What elements of the passage does your interpretation neglect or set aside? What part of the argument now appear to you debatable or Dubois that is , what objections could a reasonable person raise to your interpretation of the passage?

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