Comparative Analysis Form
Names of team members:
This is a report of our research and analysis of the following texts:
- Four Ways to Forgiveness, by Ursula Le Guin.
- Another Turn of the Crank, By Wendell Berry.
- Dinosaur in a Haystack, by Stephen Jay Gould.
- Amazon Stranger, by Mike Tidwell.
- Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics,
by Manning Marable.
- The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, by Donald L. Miller.
The raw data we found and the ratio of free modifiers to main clause are
contained in the following table.
Table 1: Data on Six Published Authors
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General Observations about The Characteristics of Each Author's Style
Conjectures about The Reasons for The Differences between Authors' Styles'
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