Class:COM375 - Section 9 - Fall 2007/Homework/semiotic analysis

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The Classroom Connection:
Semiotic Analysis, Writing, and Grading

Grading will evaluate

...the kind of thought process that goes into a semiotic analysis. The historical surveying and contextualization, the comparative associations and analytic distinctions, and the drawing of interpretive conclusions, are what comes first in the writing process. Once you have done that, you will have your thesis, or argument, which will then form the structural backbone of your written analysis. Your paper will present that thesis and defend it with the evidence that your semiotic thinking produced...It is in the nature of all interpretations to make connections and mark differences in order to go beyond the surface of a text or issue toward a meaning...[showing] that you develop as a writer of critical essays that present an argued point of view and the evidence to defend it.

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Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers
Sonia Maasik & Jack Solomon
Bedford/St. Martin's: Boston/New York. 2006.