"the book treats writing as a tool of thought----a means of understanding sustained acts of inquiry and reflection They say they want from their students: not issue-based argument, not personal reflection(the "reaction paper"), not passive summary, but analysis, with its patient and methodical inquir"
"Write well menas learning to use writing to think well. It offers alternatives both tooversimplified thinking of the like/dislike, agree/disagree variety and to the cut-and paste compilation of sheer information . It is the kind of writing that helps people not only to retain and assimilate informat"
"It(Analysis) is a form of detective work that typically pursues something puzzling, something you are seeking to understand rather than something you are already sure you have the answers to. Analysis finds questions where there seemed not to be any, and it. makes connections that might not have bee"
"Perception of an object Costs precise the object's loss"
"Since really serious exposure in public today is assumed to be synonymous with being seen on television, it would seem to follow that televised space is the premier public space. Many things that people say to me on television, however, would never be tolerated in a genuine public space—in a jury bo"
"If we break things down as we analyze,we do so to search for meaningful patterns,or to uncover what we had not seen at first glance——or just to understand more closely how and why the separate parts work as they do."
"Move1:Suspend Judgement Move2:Define Significant Parts and How They're Related * Divide the subject into its defining parts,its main elements or ingredients. * Consider how these parts are related,both to each other and to the subject as a whole. Move3:Make the Implicit Explicit Move4:Look for Patte"
"* Which of the ideas in the reading are most significant?Why? * How do these ideas fit together?What do the key passages in the reading mean?"