Summarize this reading in your own words (150 words)
Analysis involves looking at relationships of specific ideas to create a whole conclusion. It is also about deriving the meaning behind the rhetoric used and how it affects its audience. Text can invoke different reactions from us but analysis uses small parts to figure out what triggered a certain type of reaction to give a whole conclusion. The tools used to view text in different ways are actually called theories that have certain reactions because it is only seen in that one way. Different types of writing also use different tools to analyze them. Analysis takes into consideration the statement being made as well as the supporting evidence. It also takes into account the audience, purpose. genre and medium used. Analysis also looks at the environment the author is in and what prompted him/her to write the test. There are also unique elements for fiction such as narrator and implied author. Metaphors are something that both fiction and nonfiction share and can be used to analyze the text. The role of gender, ethnicity, race and disability are all lenses that can be used to analyze as well.
What’s your response to this text? (response)
Analysis is very intertwined with psychology because it’s about how the rhetoric affects people and how they think as a whole. I find this intriguing because I like learning about how people can go against the odds and think outside of everyone else. Knowing the demands rhetoric can make and the affect it can have on you can be very helpful in decision making and it’s interesting to me how people are currently being manipulated.
What question do you have after this reading? (question/connect)
After you describe what you see/read, what lense/tool should you start with? Should you start with the tool that related to the first description you noticed?
I agree with how you said, “analysis is very intertwined with psychology.” Rhetoric can definitely trigger a whole range of responses from people, which can end up being entirely different from the creator’s intention.