Close analysis essay

Professor Roberts

ENC 1102

24 Sept. 2014

Healing through Open Wounds: Empowering Single Mothers with Brené Brown’s TED Talk “The Power of Vulnerability”

A close analysis, like most essays, should open with a hook that grabs the reader’s attention, enticing him or her to continue reading. These “hooks” should avoid sweeping generalizations that begin with phrasing like “In life” or “Everyone knows,” and they should be specific to the topic at hand. For this particular close analysis essay, the introduction should offer a bit of background information about the social group you have chosen as your TED talk audience; it should be clear what challenges that group as a whole tends to face as you begin to introduce your selected TED talk. The intro should make it clear which TED talk will be the subject of analysis while emphasizing the most important claims made by the speaker. The essay should be formal—avoid first/second person, contractions, and clichés—and offer a clear blueprint of what is to come in the essay. The last sentence of your introduction should be the thesis statement. It should include all four elements outlined in the assignment guidelines, as the following example does: Single mothers would benefit from watching Brené Brown’s talk on “The Power of Vulnerability” because her suggestion that people can improve their happiness and self-worth from taking chances and letting themselves “truly be seen” will help them heal from broken relationships and learn to trust again.