Rosenwasser’s work on writing analytically bring up very interesting ideas. It makes a person evaluate their own process of analyzing. Rosenwasser talks about 5 moves that improve a writer’s analytical process. Suspend judgment is one of them. According to Rosenwasser, the process of judging shuts down our ability to see and to think. So in order to successfully analyze a piece of writing, judging it and labeling it as uninteresting is something you should steer clear from.
Another point that I have never considered before is looking for patterns. As Rosenwasser puts it, there are three principles that help determine some material are more worthy of our attention than others. Keeping an eye for repetition is one thing, but looking out for binary option and anomalies aren’t the usual stuff.
And lastly when Rosenwasser write “The greatest enemies of reading analytically are reading for the gist and the transparent theory of language.” I realized that is something, not just me, but a lot of people do. Whenever a reading is assigned instead of reading logically, I skim through it and try to understand the reading without actually reading it. If I’m trying to understand something, might as well put full effort into it.
