Performance Studies - Living Chapters Guidelines
Analytics - Performance Studies
Writing an Analytic Paragraph: Guidelines for Literary Analysis (Explicating Textual Chapters in Performance Studies)
Read the assigned readings for the week, take notes on the work observing how the perspective in the writing covers violent action, and, when applicable, how theatre stages that violence in plays through time. Interpret, analyze, and explain the work covered. Develop one (or more) paragraph(s) on each weekly assignment chapter, article or book. Only one paragraph is expected. However, if you write more, one point will be awarded for attendance and participation each week in all activities, which includes the analytic. Quality over quantity is emphasized.
Stylistic Approach:
Use your own words and your own thoughts. Trust your instincts. Develop ideas from what has lingered within your mind from the readings, plays, and life. A paragraph should be no less than five sentences and no more than fifteen sentences. A well-crafted reflective paragraph is eight sentences and interprets, analyzes, and explicates one full idea. No need to clutter the paragraph with too many idea strains. Stay focused and unpack one main thought. Select one main idea and develop a linear expression of how the reading has impacted your awareness of twenty-first century performance theory and method, and how this wide ranging field of study functions and manifests in theatrical staging in all of its various symbolic expressions and complex social perspectives.
One (to Five) Paragraph(s)
Write one (to five) paragraph(s). No need for a title page. Allow the gist of the full week's reading to be distilled in your analytic. See the assignments in the syllabus calendar. Below find a detailed guide in the way to approach the work:
Read the chapter articles fully and incrementally, and unpack the language with a dictionary, if needed! Consider your own opinions. Cluster the writer’s ideas and then your ideas. Generate macro, meso and micro themes. Find at least three illustrated examples that can be cited within the analytic from the textual readings and cite at least one of them. Develop a syllogism or academic problem within the paragraph from the three ideas considered.
See the universal and the particular in what you are reading at all times.
Paragraph One: Analytic
Introduce the key topic(s) in your analytic for the week. Throughout the writing there are complex ideas that you will need to unpack. So take notes as you read. Survey the coverage of ideas, key terms, theories, and practical examples. Select the most important overall idea that this incremental selection of readings has offered. Identify as you craft your own analytical response to the reader of your work what are the salient points within the topics, intent, and thematic focus of the work you have read.
Develop a narrative style that is your own organic style, which will provide the reader of your analytic work that provides a comprehensive and foundational understanding to the various approaches discussed in the texts, performatives, media, and praxical philosophies that now culminate and serve as a model of mass communication and personal action through the wider frame of performance studies.
Paragraph Two: Universal Themes
Identify and Analyze the larger ‘universal’ themes, key terms, and overall set of ideas presented in the chapters covered in this week’s readings. Cite at least one quote or paraphrase from the chapter readings. Cite the author, year, and page number in parentheses at the end of each citation (APA style).
EG: (Boal, 1979, p. 25)
Paragraph Three: Particular Ideas and Illustrated Examples
Interpret the more specific ‘particular’ ideas and select one that really stands out as important to you and focus on it. Translate those ideas, key terms, and particular perspectives offered by the authors of the textual chapters. Identify and analyze the most salient points from the text’s more specific and complex claims for lived and/or felt experiences that match your life. Is there an intersection between what is being written about and how you are experiencing it in your life? Cite the author, year, and page number in parentheses at the end of each citation (APA style). (Boal, 1979, p. 61)
Paragraph Four: Personal Reflection
Express your intellectual, emotional, and considered opinion in response to the overall impact of the work. Illustrate its relevance to a real life situation, activism, social movement, transnational media communication, performance, and or relevant or related life experience. Ground your analysis within this reflection of applicability and alignment within your own life.
Paragraph Five: Summary and Poetic Conclusion
Summarize what you have written into a dense, distilled and distinct reflection about the ideas and thoughts in the readings that have most resonated with you. Complete your reflection with a final artistic, philosophical, literary, and/or poetic statement.
APA Style Sheet
Read the assigned readings for the week, take notes on the work observing how the perspective in the writing covers violent action, and, when applicable, how theatre stages that violence in plays through time. Interpret, analyze, and explain the work covered. Develop one (or more) paragraph(s) on each weekly assignment chapter, article or book. Only one paragraph is expected. However, if you write more, one point will be awarded for attendance and participation each week in all activities, which includes the analytic. Quality over quantity is emphasized.
Stylistic Approach:
Use your own words and your own thoughts. Trust your instincts. Develop ideas from what has lingered within your mind from the readings, plays, and life. A paragraph should be no less than five sentences and no more than fifteen sentences. A well-crafted reflective paragraph is eight sentences and interprets, analyzes, and explicates one full idea. No need to clutter the paragraph with too many idea strains. Stay focused and unpack one main thought. Select one main idea and develop a linear expression of how the reading has impacted your awareness of twenty-first century performance theory and method, and how this wide ranging field of study functions and manifests in theatrical staging in all of its various symbolic expressions and complex social perspectives.
One (to Five) Paragraph(s)
Write one (to five) paragraph(s). No need for a title page. Allow the gist of the full week's reading to be distilled in your analytic. See the assignments in the syllabus calendar. Below find a detailed guide in the way to approach the work:
Read the chapter articles fully and incrementally, and unpack the language with a dictionary, if needed! Consider your own opinions. Cluster the writer’s ideas and then your ideas. Generate macro, meso and micro themes. Find at least three illustrated examples that can be cited within the analytic from the textual readings and cite at least one of them. Develop a syllogism or academic problem within the paragraph from the three ideas considered.
See the universal and the particular in what you are reading at all times.
Paragraph One: Analytic
Introduce the key topic(s) in your analytic for the week. Throughout the writing there are complex ideas that you will need to unpack. So take notes as you read. Survey the coverage of ideas, key terms, theories, and practical examples. Select the most important overall idea that this incremental selection of readings has offered. Identify as you craft your own analytical response to the reader of your work what are the salient points within the topics, intent, and thematic focus of the work you have read.
Develop a narrative style that is your own organic style, which will provide the reader of your analytic work that provides a comprehensive and foundational understanding to the various approaches discussed in the texts, performatives, media, and praxical philosophies that now culminate and serve as a model of mass communication and personal action through the wider frame of performance studies.
Paragraph Two: Universal Themes
Identify and Analyze the larger ‘universal’ themes, key terms, and overall set of ideas presented in the chapters covered in this week’s readings. Cite at least one quote or paraphrase from the chapter readings. Cite the author, year, and page number in parentheses at the end of each citation (APA style).
EG: (Boal, 1979, p. 25)
Paragraph Three: Particular Ideas and Illustrated Examples
Interpret the more specific ‘particular’ ideas and select one that really stands out as important to you and focus on it. Translate those ideas, key terms, and particular perspectives offered by the authors of the textual chapters. Identify and analyze the most salient points from the text’s more specific and complex claims for lived and/or felt experiences that match your life. Is there an intersection between what is being written about and how you are experiencing it in your life? Cite the author, year, and page number in parentheses at the end of each citation (APA style). (Boal, 1979, p. 61)
Paragraph Four: Personal Reflection
Express your intellectual, emotional, and considered opinion in response to the overall impact of the work. Illustrate its relevance to a real life situation, activism, social movement, transnational media communication, performance, and or relevant or related life experience. Ground your analysis within this reflection of applicability and alignment within your own life.
Paragraph Five: Summary and Poetic Conclusion
Summarize what you have written into a dense, distilled and distinct reflection about the ideas and thoughts in the readings that have most resonated with you. Complete your reflection with a final artistic, philosophical, literary, and/or poetic statement.
APA Style Sheet