Joliffe+and+Kerouac

// In teaching analysis, focus on helping students recognize that they must decipher a text’s meaning and purpose before they can go on to a successful search for strategies and techniques. To begin with the latter leads to a list of parts that may be only tangentially related to the primary effect of the text. Such approaches generally lack insight about the relationship between the parts and the whole and are superficial. //  //While students should be able to identify techniques, it is more important that they understand how and why such techniques work and that they are able to employ these devices in the service of their own writing. It doesn’t matter, for example, whether the student refers to a technique as anaphora or repetition; what matters is the depth of the student’s explanation of how the technique works in a specific situation//. - David Jolliffe, Chief Reader for AP Language & Composition (2004-2007)

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