Paper 1 2016 Stethoscopes

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Project PAPER 1 2016

What: Guided analysis through this text.

Goal: Understand where to start and what to focus on.

What do I need?

• Your initial analysis
• Text: "Before Stethoscopes"
• Laptop for notes and Googleing your way out
• Your brain

Today's steps

Step 1: Identify author, audience, context, text type

Step 2: Stylistic features, language (if time)

Step 3: theme, message, purpose (if time)

Guiding question

• Comment on the way the author combines the scientific and the literary.
• In what ways would the author's structure and style appeal to the target audience? 
• But ALWAYS: How does the author make use of language and stylistic/literary features to create meaning?

A few key comments by IB

1. CONTEXT ANALYSIS - focus on what is in the text, not on what you know about the topic.
2. If you produce a formula response, you will never achieve the highest mark.
3. If the examiner cannot read your writing, you will not be given credit.
4. Don't summarize, analyze

Step 1

Identify author, audience, context, text type.

What is the writer's profession?
Why is this relevant?

Summarize paragraph 1
in ONE (grammatically correct)
sentence.

Summarize paragraph 2
in ONE (grammatically correct)
sentence.

Summarize paragraph 3
in ONE (grammatically correct)
sentence.

Summarize paragraph 4
in ONE (grammatically correct)
sentence.

Comment on the structure.
Not the same as summary!

Genre

Describes a category of literature that can be defined by the structural and stylistic conventions that are frequently found in that category.

GENRE

Focusses on content

Sportswriting/political writing

Includes conventions

TEXT TYPE

Related to audience

Includes certain conventions

What is the text type?
How do you know? Evidence?

SIMILAR TEXT TYPES

>>> how are they the same, how are they different?

opinion column

journal

tweet

diary

news report

website

Facebook post

review

essay

review

press release 

Key features Essay

Both academic/non academic

Discusses a thesis

Includes arguments (persuasive language)

Essay genres

reflective essay

literary analysis

rhetorical analysis

cause/effect

compare/contrast

complex essay

Essay genres

reflective essay

literary analysis

rhetorical analysis

cause/effect

compare/contrast

complex essay

reflective essay

describes or narrates a particular memorable experience or event and explores your feelings or thoughts about that experience. For this type of essay, it can be useful to discuss the transformative nature of the experience—how were your behaviors or attitudes altered because of

the experience? Remember that both negative and positive feelings should be included. Also, consider how you might integrate any knowledge gained from this experience into your future actions, behaviors, or writing. 

compare/contrast

introduces two subjects and draws similarities and differences between the

two based on a set of points. You could compare and contrast two philosophies, ideas, “texts,” religions, practices, theories, influential people, etc. Your comparison should take you beyond the obvious similarities or differences. Try to focus on the most provocative or interesting elements.

Explain why you feel these similarities and/or differences are significant.

What is the genre?
Provide evidence from text.

Reception theory

Reader interpretation/meaning making

A basic acceptance of the meaning of a specific text tends to occur when a group of readers have a shared cultural background and interpret the text in similar ways. It is likely that the less shared heritage a reader has with the artist, the less he or she will be able to recognise the artist's intended meaning, and it follows that if two readers have vastly different cultural and personal experiences, their reading of a text will vary greatly.

Who is the intended audience? Don't generalize, assume, or stereotype

What is the overall message
of this text?

NOW: work on step 2

Stylistic features, language

AND THEIR EFFECT

Any (re)quest(ion)s so far?
Please send ... ?

Step 2

Stylistic features, language

"the range of musical sounds paralelled
the uniqueness of each individual"
> Explain, give evidence, add line number

Provide an example which clearly
shows the switch between formal/
informal language - add line number.

What is inclusive language?

What does 'lyrical' mean?
Google your way out
and provide an example.

What is the role of anecdotes?

Give an example of an anecdote within the text (line number). Explain it's effect.

How does the writer blend the personal and the medical?

Persuasive techniques?
Ethos, pathos, logos?
Provide evidence.

What role does punctuation
play in this text?

What is the difference between stylistic and literary features?

Find a picture/GIF that portrays the imagery in paragraph 1

Find a picture/GIF that portrays the imagery in paragraph 2

Find a picture/GIF that portrays the imagery in paragraph 3

Find a picture/GIF that portrays the imagery in paragraph 4

Stylistic features
What have you found?
What effect does it have?

Step 3

theme, message, purpose

Themes in this text