This document provides guidance on writing a strong analysis paragraph. It explains that an analysis paragraph should present a single piece of evidence and analyze how it supports the thesis. It recommends stating the argument, directly quoting or describing the evidence, analyzing the evidence using relevant concepts, and connecting it back to the overall thesis. The document cautions against summarizing rather than analyzing, neglecting to present the evidence, failing to use relevant concepts, and cramming multiple claims into one paragraph. It provides checks to evaluate if a paragraph meets the criteria of a strong analysis.

1. Analyses

2. An analysis paragraph shows how a single piece of evidence supports and develops
your thesis. You create one by presenting that (single) piece of evidence as
directly as possible; analyzing it using heuristic concepts and terms (in our case,
from Hunt); and connecting the results to the thesis.
Here’s a good way to organize a paragraph of analysis:
• State your argumentative claim. (Include a transition from the previous
paragraph).
• Quote the relevant evidence (if quotable; if not, describe it clearly).
• Use heuristic concepts/terms to dissect the evidence and show how it supports
your claim.
• Indicate how the argument you’ve made in this paragraph contributes to your
thesis overall.
Bad ways to organize a paragraph of analysis include:
• Summarizing rather analyzing.
• Neglecting to present the evidence, or at least not directly.
• Neglecting to use the conceptual terminology.
• Cramming multiple claims and/or pieces of evidence into a single paragraph.
• features of a strong analysis paragraph

3. • Argumentative claim clearly stated? YES = 
• Relevant evidence presented as directly as possible? YES = 
• Uses Hunt’s terms and concepts? YES = 
• Connects to thesis? YES = 
• More summary than analysis? YES = 
• Crams together multiple claims or pieces of evidence? YES = 
• features of a strong analysis paragraph