Doctor Analysis Essay -- Body Paragraphs and Quotations

An Example Outline of a Body Paragraph:

1. State your main idea of analysis/evaluation - your observation the writer or the essays.

Example: Oliver Sacks often appears to present himself in his essays more as an analytical scientist than a bedside physician.

2. Give evidence (examples) to support your main idea.

Example: Quote, paraphrase, summarize, or describe 2-3 passages which illustrate the way Sacks presents himself in his essays.

3. Offer reasons, explanations, reflections on the main idea and evidence - offer your own explanations about the significance and/or meaning and/or relevance of your observation. Answer the question: SO WHAT?

Example: Explain, speculate, hypothesize why Sacks presents himself the way he does. What might be his reasons for doing so? How does it affect you as a reader? How does it influence your perception of Sacks? How might other readers react? Could this possibly backfire on Sacks, or does it help him in some way?

An Example of Introducing a Quotation:

In his essay, "The Knife," Richard Selzer offers this remarkable image of a tumor: "Within the belly a tumor squats, toadish, fungoid. A gray mother and her brood. The only thing it does not do is croak" (123).