Tutorial: 6 pasos para redactar un análisis — Transcript

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1. 0:03Six steps to write an analysis.
2. 0:07Analyzing a text is like taking an
3. 0:09X-ray to examine it inside and out. But
4. 0:13how do you do it? Let's look at a
5. 0:16step-by-step guide for performing a
6. 0:18text analysis. The first step is to
7. 0:22read the entire text to understand its
8. 0:23central theme. The second step is to
9. 0:27identify and underline the ideas. Main
10. 0:30ideas. In this step, you add the
11. 0:33concepts used by the author in the work
12. 0:35and whether they make comparisons to
13. 0:37other authors. The third step is to
14. 0:42determine the author's intention. Do
15. 0:44they want to present an argument, tell
16. 0:46a story, give instructions, describe
17. 0:48objects, and so on? The fourth step is
18. 0:51to describe the author's style. Do they
19. 0:54use scientific or technical vocabulary?
20. 0:57Is it consistent or contradictory? Are
21. 1:01they objective when presenting their
22. 1:03arguments or completely subjective? The
23. 1:07fifth step is to recognize the
24. 1:09structure of the text. Here we answer
25. 1:12if it has an introduction, body, and
26. 1:14conclusion, or if the work is organized
27. 1:16differently. The sixth step is to know
28. 1:20the context of the work and the author.
29. 1:23The idea is to know who published the
30. 1:25text, when it was published, and the
31. 1:27author's background. This allows us to
32. 1:30get an idea of the credibility of the
33. 1:32work and its author, as well as its
34. 1:34relevance. With these six steps—
35. 1:38complete reading, underlining, textual
36. 1:41typology, style, structure, and context
37. 1:43—you now have descriptive elements
38. 1:45and enough information to develop a
39. 1:47summary or synthesis to create a
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