The essay needs to be a technical analysis of the study attached about student athletes mental health.
Teacher Instructions are as follow:
Textual Analysis
1400-1500 words
MLA format (in text and works cited)
In your Literacy Narrative, you practiced the work of closely reading and making meaning out of events in your own life. In fact, you were practicing a form of analysis, using the text of your own personal history with reading and writing as a way to understand something about yourself and the world.
In this assignment, the Textual Analysis, you will step outside of your own life to closely read and analyze the work of a writer. This assignment gives you the opportunity to practice evaluating context, considering audience, closely reading a text, making meaning of an aspect of that text through analysis, writing for a specific audience using conventions of a genre, and reflecting on your process and work.
The first time we read a text, ask ourselves:
What does this text say?
What do I think it means?
What do I imagine the author meant to convey?
These are great questions and great starting points for analysis. However, for this assignment, I’m asking you to go beyond the “what” to consider the “how”:
How does the author convey meaning?
How is this text constructed (of what parts)?
You might also consider the “Why”: Why did the author make these choices? Why am I reading this text in this way?
You probably also want to think about the “Who”: Who is the intended audience?
Who is the actual audience?
Textual analysis is a process of deconstructing a text to make meaning. Eventually, through this process of deconstruction, you will develop answers to the question, “So what?” and attempt to shape those answers into an essay written for a specific audience. You will want to consider all aspects of the text including but not limited to, modes of persuasion, context, and content, conclusions, and purpose.
