The document provides guidance on how to analyze a model essay in order to imitate its style. It discusses several key elements of style to examine: the situation and story, motives of language/subject/writer/reader, physical and social footing, tropes/schemes/images. As an example, it analyzes Susan Orlean's essay "Lifelike" about a taxidermy competition. It examines these various style elements in the essay such as the situation being a tour of the competition, the motives of the reader and subject, the physical and social footing, and tropes like metonymy. The document advises applying these same style elements to the reader's own topic for their imitative essay.