ENGL 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Rhetoric, Pathos, Negative Capability
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Define significant parts and how they are related. 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. 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.
