Knausgaard Analysis

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During the semester, I spend my time to read the two articles; The authors, Knausgaard and Rankine, wrote their article and covered their topics. Knausgaard 's article name The Other Side of the Face. He is a Norwegian author and wrote the Paris Review article. Rankine 's article name Citizen: An America Lyric. She is from is an author of poetry and live in Jamaica.

Anyways, I learned from the Youth Leadership Camp to apply to two articles. Both of those articles is about how the society affects us and how we fear from the society. "Rankine wrote about the African-American 's experience through the racism and how the majorities treated them. Their experience is very fearful because they could treat them, often to have the discrimination and oppression," (Miller
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The rhetorical situation is including the critical analysis. This is broken down the text and figure the author 's purpose and thesis. For myself, I read twice in the articles. I used the three different colors of highlights. …show more content…
I typed only two or three papers. I didn 't use the many quotes in the papers. After I got the feedback from my professor wrote on the paper, "I also think you are taking the text too literally and not being clear enough in your interpretation." So, I looked at the book and read again with the papers. I decide to add the quotes to help and support the essay. As well, I change my mind and idea about the author 's text. Additionally, I type the sentence, "He uses the word "symbolic language," "signifies" and "metaphysics of the body," (Miller Assignment 17). The peer writer said, "examples, expand on it." (Peer Writer Assignment 17). So, I decide to explain more about the words or sentences. I also, through the papers to make sure that I did explain every sentence or words to make sure the readers understand my papers. Every paper, I improve and get

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