[ENGL 101] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (27 pages long)
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Push observations to implications by asking, so what? . Look for patterns of repetition and contrast and for anomalies (the method) Rhetoric is a way of thinking about thinking. The division of rhetoric devoted to the generation of ideas is called invention. Heuristics- procedures and forms that served as aids to discovery. Seek to understand a subject before attempting to make arguments about it. To analyze something is to ask what that something means. To ask how something does what it does or why it is as it is. Analysis is a frame of mind, an attitude toward experience. Process of analysis: divide the subject into its defining parts, its main elements or ingredients. Then, consider how these parts are related, both to each other and to the subject as a whole. One common denominator of all effective analytical writing is that it pays close attention to detail.
