In class October 21, 2008

Analyze Data

Faigley's Social Perspective:
-Coding Data: reading all the collected data, looking for patterns, themes, similarities/differences to emerge

Intertextuality (Bazerman):
1)Direct Quotation
2) Indirect Quotation
3) Mentioning another document
4) Commenting on another text
5) Using recognizable phrases

"Tracing Writing Process" (Prior):
A) Analyzing Texts:
-Same between drafts
-Slightly revised
-Added
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B) Thinking aloud
-differentiating the various types of comments

Influence of Workplace Culture on Writing/Revising:
-Kleimann's four categories of revision comments
- Editorial comments

Analyzing Genres:
-Prominent Linguistic Features
ex- uses active verbs
- presents concrete details
-Rhetorical Features
ex-Progress report that has an argument throughout the report. What is the person doing to make an argument in the report.
-Organizational Features
ex-Chronological order

Speaking-Writing Connection:

Rhetorical Theories:
-Definitions/concepts can serve as lenses to analyze what is happening in texts


Free Write- What I am going to do about re-analyzing my data:
- I am probably going to focus more on the Analyzing Genres: the organizational features and rhetorical features.
- If my person I am observing writes evaluations and creates projects then what type of order does that person deliver throughout the evaluation?
- I will be looking for active verbs and indirect quotations. From there that could lead me to re-analyzing what type of argument was that person trying to perceive in the evaluation; was it more of an argument or agreement?