After the description, you’ll start some movement towards your analysis by answering questions that might get you started (the answers should be about aparagraph long—no less than4 sentences):
1.)What are some patterns or areas of interest you’re starting to notice within the essay?
2.)Why do you think some of those elements are being used with their target audience in mind?
3.)Start to form a thesis draft. How might you move those elements of how the author argues into an overarching argument for your essay?
4.)Who is YOUR audience? Do they differ from the author’s? If so, why might they care about this argument and analysis? If not, why do they need to understand the essay in the way you’re analyzing it? (A bit of advice: avoid the “My audience is my instructor, and she will care because she wants me to do well in the course.” Think further about the makeup of the classroom and why they might care, for example, about the implicit issue of gender in one of the readings.)