Textual Analysis and Interpretation
1. Scheme/Summary
This section focuses on ranking the importance of main and subordinate ideas, summarizing the text objectively while maintaining the original order of ideas, and omitting subordinate ideas, anecdotes, etc.
2. Subject and Structure
This section analyzes the general subject of the text, including the author’s attitude and intention. It also examines the structure and organization of main and secondary ideas, determining whether they follow a logical order. Different narrative approaches are analyzed, including the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. News articles may follow inductive, deductive, or circular structures.
3. Attitude and Intention to Communicate
The sender’s intention may be to report, persuade, convince, criticize, warn, surprise, impress, or teach. Language functions include representative, expressive, metalinguistic, appellative, and poetic. Key employee traits, attitude approach (objective/subjective), and register (formal/informal) are also considered.
4. Text Type
This section identifies the type of text, such as journalistic, particularly opinion pieces. It analyzes features like morphosyntactic elements (declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory statements; sentence variety; subjectivity/objectivity; verb tenses; adjectives; syntax; figures of speech) and lexical-semantic elements (verbs of opinion; abstract/concrete nouns; connotative/denotative lexicon; evaluative adjectives and adverbs; simplicity/complexity; vocabulary richness; colloquial expressions; technical terms; foreign words; literary devices).
5. Humanistic Text
This section discusses humanistic texts, focusing on psychological aspects. It analyzes characteristics like abstraction, speculative nature, subjectivity, and personal opinions. It also identifies the specific type of humanistic text, such as an essay, and analyzes its characteristics (length, theme, reflective nature, style, vocabulary, register, approach, tone, intended audience, and author’s intention).
6. Elocution Mode
This section identifies the elocution mode, such as expository-argumentative, and analyzes the reasoning, arguments, and persuasive techniques used. It also examines the structure of the argument, including the presentation of the thesis, the body of arguments (using various types of arguments like quantity, quality, utility, authority, ethical, actual, similarity, exemplification, personal experience, tradition, progress, justice, existence, pleasure, and aesthetic), and the conclusion.
7. Personal Valuation
This section provides a personal evaluation of the text, considering the subject’s relevance, originality, and treatment; the organization of ideas; the veracity and potential contradictions; the vocabulary; the register; the author’s style; the use of figures of speech; and personal arguments for or against the topic.