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Analyzing Clarity in Text Structure: Steps and Techniques

This lesson focuses on identifying steps to analyze how the clarity of meaning in a text is influenced by organizational patterns, hierarchical structures, idea repetition, syntax, and word choice. It provides a practical exercise using the text "Scalia Wasn't Wrong on Frost" to illustrate the analysis process. By re-reading paragraphs, identifying purposes, chunking similar content, and summarizing key points, students learn to dissect and understand the impact of structural elements on overall meaning.

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Analyzing Clarity in Text Structure: Steps and Techniques

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  1. Standard 2.2: Steps to Analyzing clarity and meaning of structure AP Eng. 11

  2. Objective: Students will identify steps to analyze clarity of meaning affected by the patterns of organization. Standard 2.2: Analyze the way in which clarity of meaning is affected by the patterns of organization, hierarchical structures, repetition of the main ideas, syntax, and word choice in the text. Immigrants arriving to Ellis Island

  3. Activate Prior Knowledge What are the steps to analyzing rhetorical devices?

  4. Actual Steps • Steps: • Re-read the paragraphs, writing the content on the left. • Write the purpose of each paragraph on the right. • Draw a line under the introduction and before the conclusion • Chunk the paragraphs that are alike by drawing brackets connecting each.

  5. Let’s Do it…Using “Scalia Wasn’t Wrong on Frost…” • “I do”: Content on the left for 1st paragraph. • “We do”: Content on the left for the second and third paragraph. • “You do”: Content on the left for the rest of the letter to the editor.

  6. Finally… • Write the purpose of each paragraph on the right. (I do: first paragraph, We do: 2-4, You do: the rest) • Draw a line under the introduction and before the conclusion (We do) • Chunk the paragraphs that are alike by drawing brackets connecting each. (I do: the first paragraph, We do: paragraphs 2-4, you do: the rest.

  7. Wrap It Up… • What did we just do? (Hint: What was our standard?) Answer: Analyzed the way in which clarity of meaning is affected by the patterns of organization, hierarchical structures, repetition of the main ideas, syntax, and word choice in the text.

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