Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 12 AIL 1144 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A Procedure for a Nonfiction Passage
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The idea
Find the thesis in the first and last sentences. Ask what the passage must establish, which names the mode. Ask whether the voice is owned or adopted. Then read for the appeal a named sentence is using. Four steps, and the third is the one that prevents the worst error.
In practice
Thesis, mode, voice, appeal.
Where people slip
Step three prevents the worst error.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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