Application & Analysis

Discussion
Thesis
Application

Discussion

• Summary and important info
• main ideas
• key lines

Thesis

Think of this as a formulation of an answer to an indirect question. Thesis ought to outline the argument to be made in a piece of writing. Be specific about claims. Give broad view of the work.

Indirect Questions

I want to study         because I want to know                        .

Indirect Example

I want to study the connection between empathy and play because I want to understand how socialization through play contributes to a person's capacity for and deployment of empathy.

Give your examples

Take 5-10 minutes to come up with 2.

Application

• Content
• Context
• Connections
• Comparison

Content

What do you notice in the work? What stands out to you? Patterns? Common ideas or connective tissue between ideas? Underlying messages?

Context

What is happening around the creation of the source? Historical context? Social? Personal? What do you know—or, what can you find out?—about the context of the material's creation?

Content

• Types of empathy/definitions
• relationships b/w empathy and ______
• when does empathy seem to shift? how?

Context

• Solnit writing of empathy before/after election
• Jamison's context—biography, interviews, etc.
• empathy research at time of writings
• world events, social happenings

Connections

What connections do you notice between texts or within texts? How do ideas or themes in the text relate to each other?

• Correlation
• Cause and effect
• Illumination

Comparison

• Relationship between texts
• primary and secondary sources
• application of knowledge from secondary to primary
• How does content, context, & connection affect your comparison?

Conclusion

What did you learn? Synthesize what you have argued or claimed. How do we use this knowledge going forward?