Shailyn Warnock English 1030 Dr. McNeil September 3, 2014 Fall 2014
The Analytical Frame of Mind
Chapter One Discussion: 1.
The three spaces of emphasis are the writer, the subject, and the audience. The writer emphasizes expressive writing and self- expression. The subject emphasizes selfexpression or focus on changing the reader’s views. The audience emphasizes on advocating or arguing against a policy or attitude.
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(A) Summary and analysis differ because the summary aims to recount in reduce from someone else’s idea. Analysis and summary are similar because they both need each other in writing. (B) Both analysis and expressive writing differ in both method and aim. Expressive writing focuses on self and self-understanding, while analytical banishes the word I. though they are similar in that area “because although most analytical writing done in the academic disciplines is about some subject other than self and there is an “I” doing in thinking and selecting the details to consider.” (C) Lastly, analysis and argument proceed in the same way. They both have evidence, make claims about it, and analyze and argue over it. But they differ in the kinds of question they try to answer.
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Debate is arguing for or against something with the goal or defeating your opponent and convincing the audience you’re right. A good argument is an attempt to persuade or reason with/to someone of something.
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Logos refers to the logical component of a piece of writing or speaking. Logos matter to writers because they need a logical argument in their writing to support their statement. Pathos refers to the emotional component in writing the ways that it appeals to the feelings in an audience. Pathos matters to writers because depending on the genre of the book they have to make sure they’re giving the right emotion to the audience so that their reaction and the genre of the book match up. Ethos is the character of the speaker and this is important to writers because it’s determining an audience’ acceptance or rejection of his or her argument.
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Negative capability is the humans’ uncertainty and shyness to give or say the wrong answer.
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The four main bad habits of the mind are; our judgment reflex, we are quickly to judge something based off looks or others opinions. Making assumptions based off our own personal experiences not facts. Our generalizing method, we generalize from our own personal experience and this takes away from the mind, because we come up with our won theory or answer and then the mind has no time to think because its already set on what we generalized the answer to be. Lastly, the five paragraph theory. High school students as myself, think an one page essay is only five paragraphs, and this is a bad habit because when you get to college teachers ask for 24 pages for an essay and you cant limit each page to five paragraphs, you have to make sure you cover ever thing before switching to the next topic or subject.
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One tip for breaking a bad habit of the mind such as; negative capability, is always try your best, don’t be afraid of what others think or say because if you never ask that question, you’ll always get it wrong until you ask for help. Another tip for breaking a bad habit of the mind is fight procrastinations butt! Fins something that makes you enthusiastic about finishes that project or assignment before the due date. Do a little of it each day.
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The five analytical moves are; don’t judge to quickly, attend closely to details, notice and focus, take good use of implicit and explicit, look for patterns and lastly ask questions and explain.
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To suspend judgment is to refrain from judging something so quickly, like a book, just because it looks boring or people say it’s boring, just sit there and try to enjoy it without pre judging it. Even after reading it finds reasons you liked it instead of dislikes.
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The notice and focus method is there to get you to pay attention to the details notice them and try to understand them and why they’re in the book or text.
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Rhetorical analysis principles are understanding, criticism, discovering and developing arguments for certain situations.
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Free writing is useful because it gives you the freedom to write whatever you want without worrying about people saying you’re wrong. It just gives you the freedom to experiment
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The rules for free writing are; pick a concert starting point, write your focus at the top of the page, commit to a time you will write continuously, most important keep your fingers moving.
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I believe it means say out loud what you feel is being applied in the text so that you have a better understanding.
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So what is a good question because its directness can be liberating, it prepares you to ask why does this matter, or what’s next?
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SO WHAT is a prompt for the move from observation to implication and then into interpretation. The so what chain is the repeated question of so what between writers. They ask so what, answer and then ask so what again.
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The goal of the Method is to uncover patterns, and focus your attention on important detail.
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The five steps of the Method are; number how many patterns you find, list patterns of the same kind of detail or word, list details or words that form or suggest binary oppositions, choose one repetition, and locate anomalies.
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It’s an analytical process of trial and error.
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There are three rules to govern an analysis which are; the range of associations for explain a given detail or word must be governed by context. Take care not to make an interpretive leap stretch further than the actual details will support. Lastly, always ask yourself “what other explanations might plausibly account for this same pattern of detail?”