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Adopting a Text: Ideological Perspectives in Canada

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ESL 1010


Adopt a Text assignment (20%)


Due Date – Aug 14, 2020, 11.59pm

Adopt a piece of writing from one of your other courses. It should be at least 3 pages. It could be an article from a journal, pages from a textbook, a report. Please provide me with an e-copy of the selection. Due week 3 anytime between July 13, 2020 and July 17, 2020. You will be providing a brief 5 or so min description about this text covering points such as. You can make a video or audio and upload it on Moodle, details to do so will be provided.

  1. What’s the text about?
  2. Where is it from?
  3. Why you chose it? What makes it unique for you?
  4. How you plan on analyzing it?
  5. Any other relevant information about it.

Keep a copy of this text with you though the course. You will refer to this text often as we move through the course, analyzing it for specific features.

 


Final report (text analysis): Due on Aug 14, 2020 at 11.59pm. Include a References page citing the text you have adopted and any of the course readings you refer to. Use APA style. See course outline for links to APA referencing details.

700 - 800 words. Submission on Moodle, details to follow.

Possible points of analysis –

Orient me to the text –how does the excerpt fit in to the broader (con)text?

Why did you select it?

How do the layout, design, visuals (or lack thereof) affect the readability and credibility?

What are the assumptions of the writer(s) about the reader(s) (assumptions of knowledge; assumptions of culture)?

Analyze the language and the tone. How do they contribute to or detract from the text (in your view)?

What other characteristics make this piece more or less readable?

What’s missing?

 

During this course, we analyzed texts along many dimensions. Keeping our discussions in mind, what else do you have to say about the text you selected?

Cite this text in APA format

Related:

     What are some subject-specific features you have noticed in your other course readings?

      Become a discourse analyst: Note words and phrases that seem to recur in academic writing in    your discipline area and beyond.

 

By L. Steinman, YorkU, DLLL

 

Suggested Framework for Analyzing a Reading  

Content

  1. What do you already know about this topic?
  2. What is the thesis statement (the main point the author is trying to make) and how is this point supported? What supporting points are particularly effective/less effective?
  3. What is the author’s position? (experience?; level of knowledge?; in what role is s/he writing?)
  4. What are some of the assumptions made by the author in this reading?

(The author seems to think that everyone knows who Trudeau was—that everyone can learn to speak English fluently…)

  1. Is there another perspective that might widen/enrich the discussion? (Gender? Culture? Place? Time? This is part of a critical analysis.)
  2. What have you learned from this reading?
  3. That are some questions arising from this reading?
  4. Do you see any connections between this reading and other readings in this course—or connections to other courses?

Form

  1. What is the source and what is the genre of this reading? (A study in an academic journal? A newspaper article from the Toronto Star? An autobiography that has been published in book form? A statement from a government web site? A commentary from a student blog? )
  2. Describe the language used in this reading (conversational? academic? formal? dialogue? jargon?)
  3. Can you detect the organizing principle? (that is, what is the shape/design of the reading? Is it chronological? comparison /contrast? process? narrative? argumentation/persuasive? A blend of some of these?)
  4. Note and comment on the introduction and the conclusion.
  5. Language: Note some interesting/challenging phrases and/or vocabulary.
  6. Are there some interesting design features of this article? (graphs? Illustrations? Glossary…? If so comment on their usefulness.
  7. What’s your personal reaction?

More useful resources to guide you through this analysis:

Also refer to Framework for Reading – see next page  and Graham’s essay- available here - https://liubovborisova.com/images/UUacadenWriting/ArticleAnalysisReadingGuide.pdf


 

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Adopting a Text: Ideological Perspectives in Canada
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Societies around the world are characterized by distinct values, beliefs, and principles guiding their interactions and integrations across the social, political, and economic dimensions. These values, beliefs, and principles may be unique to given societies or communities or shared among the same as witnessed in the world today. The unique or shared elements form the basis for developing a common perception or assessment of people’s way of life within a given social setting. A common or shared perception of different aspects of life across the social, political, and economic dimensions of society makes for the accepted ideology that defines or rather forms the basis for explaining the reasons behind the existence of the said aspects as perceived by individuals and societies alike. Marchak, M. Patricia’s Ideological Perspectives in Canada offers a breakdown of the shared perceptions existing in the North American country in a systematic approach that makes for an informative engagement with the readers. A detailed analysis of an excerpt from the author’s work, Ideology and Social Organization, highlights some of the outstanding elements of the text that function to develop an understanding of ideologies or shared perceptions existing in Canada.
Marchakia presents an argument for the existence of shared perceptions of the existing social realities around the world established through common beliefs, assumptions, values, principles, and expectations around the same CITATION Pat11 \l 1033 (Patricia, 2011). The existing social realities form the basis for the development of the shared beliefs, values, and principles through which members of society develop a common understanding or reference for explaining the existing state of things. The author develops the text around the belief that societies hold different ideological perspectives around existing social realities with the most accepted assumptions or explanations for the same making for the dominant ideology in society. The text makes use of the outlined approach to provide elaborate details of the existing ideological perspectives in Canada towards developing an understanding of their unique backgrounds, which further highlight the differentials of the same.
The author begins by introducing a simple analogy to introduce and explain the meaning of ideologies in society. Marchakia suggests that the comments made in responding to questions on the existence of certain social realities are characteristic of the ideological perspectives embraced by societies to explain their orientations to certain ways of doing things in life CITATION Pat11 \l 1033 (Patricia, 2...
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