Research
Question:
What do students do when they write analytic papers?
Answer: Evidence in
this research suggests that students when writing analytic papers are actually using
or summarizing the analysis of others (the teacher or expert), rather than
completing their own analysis.
Comment: Makes sense. Students are actually listening
to, absorbing, and summarizing the
analysis of others, teachers and “experts,” whom they have heard or read. They
are not themselves actually analyzing. Why not? Isn’t that what most Americans
do? How to correct this situation? Give them a set of facts and have them
analyze and interpret those facts? Have students analyze other people’s
analysis and reasoning? Using other people’s analysis and reasoning is a hard
habit to break. RayS.
Title: “Cognitive and
Linguistic Demands of Analytic Writing." Russel K Durst. Research in the Teaching of English (December 1987), 347-376.
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