Thank you to those who posted their paragraph of analysis. I have commented on these where relevant. If you have not posted it, you cannot get any feedback.
Today we will be thinking about how to structure your analysis. It is not an essay. Not. An. Essay. It is an investigation and you are reporting your findings. You must do this in a clear but intellectually sophisticated way where the structure helps the reader to comprehend your thinking and your findings. Both parts are equally important so you must continually make comments that show you have thought about your findings and how reliable/relevant they are and whether they stand up to close examination in context - what are the exceptions? What would happen if you removed some of the exceptional results? What would be the picture then? How many actual results have made up that percentage? This is evaluation and it is one of the key criteria (it is not enough to only put evaluative comments in the Evaluation, you must put them in the Methodology, Analysis and Conclusion too.
So, regarding structure, you must organise your analysis. You will probably not be looking at each piece of data in detail so this is not a good way to organise your analysis (under transcript/article/song headings). It is better to think about getting an overview and explaining your findings either under different theories and how far they are supported/contradicted; or framework headings; orquestions you wanted to answer; or the features that you used to test your hypotheseis with; or any other suitable set of headings that makes you give an overview of the data each time (you can have sub-sub-headings that show which piece of data is being discussed if that clarifies things). You should have tables/charts/graphs to show quantifiable findings where at all possible and then use quotes in context to exemplify some of those findings to show close PEE(EE) skills and contextual understanding - remember to evaluate how reliable the findings are.
So plan how you will break down your analysis and start to test your hypothesis using quantifiable aspects, picking out examples of these aspects using PEE.
Post an explanation of how you are sub-dividing your analysis and why today, please.
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