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Analysis

Analysis. The “root” to understanding. Analysis vs. Argument. Analysis. Argument. Asks questions Provides answers to questions about what should be or what is best Can be argued different ways depending on lens or POV used Not one right answer necessarily Focuses on convincing readers.

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Analysis

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  1. Analysis The “root” to understanding

  2. Analysis vs. Argument Analysis Argument Asks questions Provides answers to questions about what should be or what is best Can be argued different ways depending on lens or POV used Not one right answer necessarily Focuses on convincing readers • Asks questions • Provides answers to the question: “What does this mean?” • Can result in multiple meanings based on the POV or lens used • Not one right answer necessarily • Focuses on explanation/ education

  3. Analysis vs. Argument Analysis Argument Tries to sway readers to the position argued Values persuasion over understanding Reasons from evidence Focuses on a particular stance that surrounds the subject • Encourages the reader to take a journey with the author • Adopts non-argumentative tone • Reasons from evidence • Focuses on the subject to bring about understanding

  4. Analysis to Achieve Understanding • Hard evidence must be present in the piece analyzed (Never engage in speculation without a firm base to stand on) • The context must be congruent with any interpretations (Defining the news as popularly known vs. defining it as an impediment to CT) • Avoid overlaying your personal life onto the subject analyzed (Ask: “what other explanations might explain X?”) • Ask what the defining parts are along with how they fit into the whole (So what? method works here)

  5. Making the Point • Use a non-adversarial tone (You are explaining a viewpoint, not arguing a stance) • Avoid evaluation until you know what the subject means (often no one right answer exists) • Make the implicit explicit (identify what assumptions exist) • Starts with a question and often produces more questions (the better you understand, the more you recognize that you don’t know what you think you know) • Keep in mind the rhetorical triangle

  6. Writing Context Logos: (information) arguments, evidence, reasons, data, structure Rhetorical Triangle Ethos: (author credibility) authority, correctness, appearance, eloquence Pathos: (audience) beliefs, values, knowledge, experience

  7. In Other Words. . . • Use critical thinking: • First to analyze • Second to interpret and • Third to communicate • Consider why you think what you think about your thinking • Consider what your audience needs to understand why you think what you think about what you think

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