Learning Task:

Recall your previous subjects or

activities when you were asked to
do an analysis. How did you do it?
Answer the following questions with
“Did or Not”
 Did or Not?
 Did you set a time to read and
understand the text?
 Did you try to google some helpful
info?
 Did you classify the text and identify
its genre?
 Did you write some questions you
had in mind about the text?
 Did or Not?
 Did you review the different
approaches in literary analysis?
 Did you work on a draft of your
analysis?
 Did you check, revise and finalize
your work?
 Analyze
Factual/Nonfiction
Elements in the
Texts
Literary Analysis Critical Thinking

 Dissect a  Search for  Consider own

particular literary expressions that conviction/belief.
piece through its are hidden from
components/ the text
elements. (intentionally or
not).
 General
Analysis
Prompts for
Nonfiction
Writing
Different prompts or suggestions that are useful in making an analysis on a
Nonfiction writing:

1. Purpose

o What is the purpose of the text?

o What kind of text is this (genre)?
Is this appropriate for writer’s
purpose?
2. Organization
o What structure does the text broadly
follow?
o How is the text laid out/organized?
o Is the overall structural organization
appropriate to the text type?
o In your opinion, are there any
sections that might improve the
missing text?
3. Connectives/Transitions
o Does the flow or progression of ideas
in this text seem smooth and logical?
o Can you identify any clear instances
of transitional or connective elements
in the text?
o Is there any appropriate variety of
these transitional/connective
elements?
4. Language

o What other interesting or unusual

language features do you see in the
text?
o In your opinion, does the text
demonstrate a varied vocabulary, or
is it too dry and repetitive?
The Real Deal Question:
What is your overall
impression of the text?
Why?
 Narrative Nonfiction Writing
● What is the story about?
● What are the most emotionally-charged parts of the story?
● How would you have reacted differently if you were the main
character?
● Do you remember any similar series of events you
experienced?
● What was the most memorable part of your own experienced?
(your personal views after analyzing the text)
 Informational Reports
● What is the main topic of this report?
● Is the overall purpose of the report clear?
● What would the author like us to do with this
information?
● How does the author start and end this report?
● How efficiently did this report convey information to
the reader?
● What makes this report interesting/uninteresting?
 Informational Reports
● What might the author have done differently to
convey information more clearly/interestingly?
● What were you surprised to learn about the topic?
● What other topics would this type of informational
report be good for describing?
● What makes this type of writing different from
narrative writing?
 Argumentative Writing
● What is the author’s main argument?
● What would the author like us to do, if anything?
● How effective was the argument your point of view?
● Do you have any prior beliefs or opinions that might
affect how persuasive you perceived the argument
to be? What about readers who are likely to read
this piece?
● What would be some other good topics for this type
of argumentative writing?
Argumentative
Writing
● What were the primary
sources to support the
author’s argument?
● What makes this type
of writing different from
an informational report
or narrative?
Nonfiction Genre Narrative Informative Argumentative

Example topic A travelogue of a Description of Should personal

tourist who went Philippine travel be banned
to a Caramoan. Tourism. during a
pandemic?
Purpose To provide To provide To encourage the
personal insights information about readers to present
and emotions the topic. a position on an
while experiencing significant and
the event or the current topic and
topic. support it.
Organization Establishing the Thesis statement Introductory
core points like of topic’s statement history
the WH elements importance. development or
as introduction of Provide background
narration. background information,
information. News peg
Nonfiction Genre Narrative Informative Argumentative

Chronological Detail’s or Stand about the

arrangement of supporting detail topic, personal
series of events. (1 idea, statement of
Introduction of 1paragraph). opinion.
problem/conflict if Wrapping up on Supporting
available. the concluding statement about
Resolution author’s part. your stand may
perception about include evidences
the topic and its to strengthen the
significance. stand. Conclusion
and
recommendation

Examples of Procedural Transitional for Introducing each

transitional/ transition like first, addition and argument may use
Connectors second, next, lastly objecting the procedural
and words that previous idea. transitional.
indicate time. Introducing the
conclusion using
concluding
transitional.
Nonfiction Genre Narrative Informative Argumentative

Other language Use past tense of Ideas shall be Diction shall be

feature the verb to discuss presented in considered
what happened. present tense. especially with
Dialogues may be the use of target audience.
used. formal diction is Present tense
appropriate. shall be used in
presenting
arguments.