Analysis

Organizing Principles
Arrangement
Asmita Ghimire
Performing Analysis
Thoughtful analysis
While answering the critical question, a writer need to

avoid knee-jerk conclusion produced basically from that

part of evaluative cognitive process that stores
prejudgment and cultural ideology.
Counterintuitive principles of analysis
In relation to critical thinking and analysis there are two
fundamental principles:
All analysis begin with obvious; The most critically

cogent analyses occur not because the writer found some

obscure fact that other missed. Rather, it is because most
people routinely miss the obvious.
Counterintuitive principles of analysis
The best analysis is done by extra-terrestrials:

While performing thoughtful analysis, one must readjust

one’s pattern of thinking and approach a question with an
attitude of deliberate ignorance, as if one has never
encountered it before.
Defamiliarization Effect:
A concept and a term introduced by Viktor Shklovsky, an

important member of Russian school of formalism.

To defamiliarize is to make fresh, new, strange,, different

what is familiar and known.

It is a literary technique where writer modifies the readers

habitual perceptions by drawing attention to the artifice of

the text.
Defamiliarization effect in critical thinking:

In critical thinking, answer to the question comes after we

bypass the filter we have in the place that offer easily

accessible answers.
A good critical writer look at a question as if they just step

off of the mothership.

Opinion, Fact analysis
First, opinion (subjective point of view) based on ones

preferences, do not have a place in academic writing.

Facts, a verified truth ( common knowledge and

specialized knowledge), if assembled in academic writing

makes your writing more like a book report reflecting
what the student know on subject.
Academic writing is based on analysis of fact
based on the opinion:
The most fundamental way that the people reason through
the question, and establish the truth about the matter, and
then write about it is the analysis. Analysis is the form of
reasoning and not a statement of opinion. Academic
writing, always relies primarily on writer’s own analysis to
involve a question through the logical progression, to an
answer.
General analysis
Analysis is the process whereby one answer the question by
breaking up into manageable parts. Analysis produces a lot
of question simply because analysis requires a lot of answer
to get to the truth. The element of critical thinking is to take
care to do the steps slowly, exhaustively and in order.
Analysis includes thinking; we perform analysis in our

daily basics about people and situations, by establishing

criteria through which we can break down information
that we receive, compare it to previous experience and
way of understanding the patterns from details that we
observe, draw conclusion, often without doing it
consciously.
However, writing involves self-conscious act of analysis.

To write is to follow the step of analysis, in order to

recognize the pattern that allow us to draw conclusion
about the world. Critical thinking is paying attention to
how we do that process. In general, it involves: gather
details, establish pattern, draw conclusion.
Process of general analysis:
• Ask the question based on observation.
Identify specific instances or samples

Gather details, or data from those specifies

Identify patterns within those details or data

Draw conclusion from those patterns.

Types of General Analysis:

Formalist analysis

Rhetorical analysis
Formalist analysis
Formalist analysis is especially effective in the analysis

of visual image: work of art(painting, photograph), visual

image combined with text (advertisement), sequential
image ( comics and films).
Visual field is a nice way to do analysis because detail is

available in one place; the image at which one is directing

ones attention.
A sophisticated formalist analysis take into account visual

element such as balance, composition, contrast, depth of

field, hue, color etc.
Possibility and actuality of visual argument:
Carl Lewis photographed for Pirelli
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Rhetorical analysis
Rhetorical analysis treats any “text” of analysis as a communication.

In rhetoric's there are five element that qualify something as

communication:
A speaker

An audience

A message

An intention

A vehicle
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