Kelley Analysis Essay: AP Language

Below are a few general issues that you should consider as you write your revisions of your Kelley analysis essays:

1. Analysis means how and why. How and why.
2. Need to avoid literal analysis/summary of any sections of the piece. Focus on analyzing her use of language and strategies, not telling what she said.
3. Don’t divide the piece in such a way that you create tiny, insignificant paragraphs.
4. Commas go inside quotations marks.
5. Topic sentences should be focused on arguments above subjects.
6. Use the term pathos when appropriate. Isn’t it in this piece?
7. Thesis statement should definitely say something more sophisticated than “Kelley uses rhetorical devices…”
8. Stop telling me that a particular line or phrase “catches the reader’s attention.” More sophisticated analysis!
9. Tone is the author/speaker’s attitude towards a subject.
10. Embed quotations correctly.
11. Make sure you have an adequate number of points of analysis. Rather than belaboring a single point, address many points.