Sunday, May 23, 2010
Analysis
In class we discussed the difficulty of analyzing one's work compared to someone else. I really considered this after class and i believe it does have to do with confidence on what is being analyzed. When we analyze our own work we know exactly what we were trying to do and how we went about doing it. Another person's work though creates hesitancy in us I think. We are scared that we are not catching the exact message and even though it might make sense to us someone else will think it has nothing to do with it. I also think the added bonus of this being our first analysis on a story with pictures makes it difficult. It just adds more to the uncertainty if we are understanding what the story is trying to say and how it is trying to say it.
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It seemed like a lot of people had this concern, but I think there is not way of getting past it. The best way to overcome this uncertainty is to explain your reasoning in a confident manner, just as Kate has to us to do in our rhetorical analyzes. Even if you are not catching everything that the author wanted you to see, it is worth pointing out everything that you notice in any kind of writing or illustration.
ReplyDeleteI can definitely see where you are coming from but I think an analysis, no matter who it's coming from, is simply opinionated whether they get the gist of the author's message or not. The author provides the audience with all the tools he sees necessary for them to understand and interpret their message. If the audience interprets the story in some other way tho, it's not the author or the readers fault. The reader just has a different way of seeing things than the author and if their analysis is more heavily waited on what they see then what the author meant for them to see I think that is completely fine.
ReplyDeleteI understand your point of view to the fullest. It is easy to tell what your are portraying in your own work. on the other hand it is hard to tell what another author is portraying in there work. I also feel like I am missing something that the author wanted us to get. But whatever you see in their work just explain in great detail I believe that is what Kate wants us to do.
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