Sample analyses
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What makes an analysis ‘weak’?
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Feature-spotting — naming a device with no effect.
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What is a ‘middling’ analysis?
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Technique + effect, but no depth, audience or evaluation.
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What makes an analysis ‘top-band’?
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Technique → effect → audience → combined → evaluated, in PEAL.
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Fastest way to improve?
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Compare weak, middling and top-band versions of the same line.
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What lifts middling to top?
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Adding audience, combining choices, and evaluation.
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The whole unit in one paragraph?
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A full evaluated PEAL paragraph.
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Where does all your analysis appear?
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In the ‘A’ (Analysis) of a top-band PEAL paragraph.
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Should you copy the top-band sample?
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Yes — copy its MOVES (not its words) into your own writing.
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Is ‘technique + effect’ enough for the top?
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No — it's only mid-band; add audience, combination and evaluation.
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The three rungs, in order?
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Feature-spotting → technique+effect → full evaluated PEAL.
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