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UNIT I

THE ANALYTICAL FRAME OF MIND: INTRODUCTION TO ANALYTICAL METHODS

Finding Your Way in This Book: A Note to Readers

WRITING ANALYTICALLY’S CHAPTERS can stand alone and can be used in any order, but there are organizing principles that determine the sequence of chapters.

The book’s overall method is recursive. In addition to moving to increasingly complex writing tasks, the book assumes you will keep using the tools from Unit I as habitual practices in the writing you are invited to do in later chapters.

Unit I (Chapters 1–7), The Analytical Frame of Mind: Introduction to Analytical Methods, concentrates on ways of training yourself to be more observant and to push observations to implications and conclusions.

Unit II (Chapters 8–14), Writing Analytical Papers: How to Use Evidence, Evolve Claims, and Converse with Sources, incorporates the essential methods of Unit I into strategies for writing various kinds of analytical papers, including papers that require you to synthesize secondary sources and orchestrate a conversation among them. Thesis and evidence are key terms of Unit II.

Unit III (Chapters 15–19), Matters of Form: The