Your Textual Analysis Exercise should…

□      Consist of at least two substantive paragraphs, each of which begins with a topic sentence that sets out the project of that paragraph 

□      Identify at least one KEY TERM – a word or phrase that explores and explains HOW something works. KEY TERMS are NOT examples (e.g., technology); they are ideas that help us think more carefully about examples (e.g., credentialing; unlearning; etc.)

□      Identify and quote AT LEAST TWO textual moments per paragraph that relate to your KEY TERM

□      Analyze your quoted moments, explaining how they help us better understand your KEY TERM

□      Conclude by discussing what your analysis teaches us about the passages and their complexities…

□      …and by discussing how the passages you cite relate to, further, and/or complicate Giridharadas’s overall argument

Your Textual Analysis Exercise should NOT…

□      Summarize the passages (i.e., report what is said without adding anything new) at length

□      Attempt to address EVERYTHING in a passage (or in Giridharadas’s essay, for that matter!)

□      Reference non-textual examples (i.e., relate something you find in the text to something not in it)

□      Rely on factual quotations (i.e., quotations that merely report facts or examples; these will feel like they could be said by anyone rather than only Giridharadas himself)