formal analysis of a text you consider the significance of a choice that the author makes about how to present the story. If you choose to do a formal analysis for the short paper, pick one of the works we have studied and explain how an aspect of the work’s form relates to issues that the work explores on a broader scale.
Introduce a thesis in your first paragraph that you support or expand in your body paragraphs; use your conclusion to close the discussion in an engaging way.
Support your argument through paraphrase and explanation of quoted passages from the text or texts with which you are working.
Do not look for or use further sources