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Move 5: Keep Reformulating Questions and Explanations

Science as a Process of Argument: A Biologist Speaks

Voices From Across the Curriculum

“2:30”: An Example of the Five Analytical Moves in Action

Try This 3.4: Apply the Five Analytical Moves to a Speech

What It Means to Have an Idea

B. Distinguishing Analysis from Argument, Summary, and Expressive Writing

Analysis and Argument

Analysis versus Debate-Style Argument

Ethos and Analysis

Analysis versus Summary: The Example of Whistler’s Mother

Summary Is a Focused Description

Analysis Makes an Interpretive Leap

Analysis and Personal Associations

Rhetorical Analysis of an Advertisement: An Example

References

Guidelines

Assignments

CHAPTER 4 Toolkit of Analytical Methods II: Going Deeper

1. Passage-Based Focused Freewriting

Passage-based Focused Freewriting: An Example

Passage-based Focused Freewriting: Another Example

Try This 4.1: Do a Passage-based Focused Freewrite

2. Uncovering Assumptions

Uncovering Assumptions: An Example

Uncovering Assumptions: Another Quick Example

Try This 4.2: Uncover Assumptions in Reviews

Uncovering Assumptions: An Economist Speaks

Voices From Across the Curriculum

Try This 4.3: Uncovering Assumptions: Fieldwork

3. Reformulating Binaries

Reformulating Binaries: An Example

Collapsing the Binary: A Brief Example

Reformulating Binaries: Two More Examples

Try This 4.4: Reformulating Binaries in a Familiar Expression

Try This 4.5: Reformulating Binaries: More Practice

Try This 4.6: Reformulating Binaries: Fieldwork

4. Difference within Similarity

Looking for Difference Within Similarity: An Example

Try This 4.7: Looking for Significant Difference or Unexpected Similarity

5. Seems to Be About X But Could Also Be (Is “Really”) About Y

Seems to Be About X …: An Example

Try This 4.8: Apply the Formula “Seems to Be About X, But Could Also Be (Is “Really”) About Y”

Assignments

CHAPTER 5 Writing About Reading: More Moves to Make with Written Texts

The Three Lives of a Reading

How to Read: Words Matter

Become Conversant Instead of Reading for the Gist

Owning the Reading

Focus on Individual Sentences

Pointing

Passage-Based Focused Freewriting (PBFF)

Paraphrasing

Keep a Commonplace Book

Try This 5.1: Writing & Reading with Others: A Sequence of Activities

Situate the Reading Rhetorically: Find the Pitch, the Complaint, and the Moment

The Pitch, the Complaint, and the Moment: Two Brief Examples

Audience Analysis: A Brief Example

Try This 5.2: Locating the Pitch and the Complaint

Seek to Understand the Reading Fairly on Its Own Terms

Entering the Thinking in a Reading: Uncovering Assumptions and Reformulating Binaries (A Reprise)

Tracking the Thinking Through Complication and Qualification: An Example

The Problem of Critique

What Do We Mean by Critical Reading? A Music Professor Speaks

Voices From Across the Curriculum

Reading Against the Grain

Use a Reading as a Model

Apply a Reading as a Lens

Using a Reading as a Lens: “Self-Deprecation on Late Night Television”

Guidelines

Assignments

CHAPTER 6 Making Interpretations Plausible

Moving from Description to Interpretation

Making Interpretations Plausible Across the Curriculum

Plausible versus Implausible Interpretations: The Social Context

Interpretive Contexts and Multiple Meanings

Specifying an Interpretive Context: A Brief Example

The Role of Context in Interpreting Numerical Data

Intention as an Interpretive Context

What Is and Isn’t “Meant” to Be Analyzed

Meaning and Social Contexts

The Fortune Cookie School of Interpretation

The Anything Goes School of Interpretation

Making an Interpretation: The Example of a New Yorker Cover

Using the Method to Identify Patterns of Repetition and Contrast

Pushing Observations to Conclusions: Selecting an Interpretive Context

Making the Interpretation Plausible

Arriving At an Interpretive Conclusion: Making Choices

Guidelines

Assignments

CHAPTER 7 Making Common Topics More Analytical

Summary

Strategies for Making Summaries More Analytical

Personal