WRT 102 Lecture 3: WRT102- Lesson 3
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Paraphrase (translation) (objective: putting something in your own words, purpose: make easier to understand. Summary (objective) ( global : ideas, quotes/statements, passages/paragraphs, speech/monologue, condensing, recapitulating, main ideas, purpose, plot development, contexts, conflicts, resolutions, themes, motifs, literary devices, structure, conclusions, tone, purpose: focus attention. Response (subjective: reaction to the text (personal, intellectual/argumentative, agree, disagree, reconcile/compromise/larger consideration, critique, emotional, like, dislike, reflection, purpose: forces reader to explicitly draw conclusions to a text. Textual (literary) analysis: the act of breaking a text into its constituent parts in order to demonstrate how those parts affect/create meaning you ascribe to the whole. Terms: objective: factual, unbiased, fair, impartial, concrete, definite, logical, evidence- based, measureable universal, real, quantifiable, unemotional, literal.