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  1. Mar 2024
  2. Nov 2023
    1. Eco was aware of this predicament. As a university profes-sor, he knew that the majority of students in Italian univer-sities seldom attended classes, that very few of them wouldcontinue to write and do research, and that the degree theyeventually earned would not necessarily improve their socialconditions. It would have been easy to call for the system tobe reformed so as not to require a thesis from students ill-equipped to write one, and for whom the benefit of spendingseveral months working on a thesis might be difficult to jus-tify in cold economic terms.

      Some of the missing piece here is knowing a method for extracting and subsequently building. Without the recipe in hand, it's difficult to bake a complex cake.

      Not mentioned here as something which may be missing, but which Adler & Van Doren identify as strength and ability to read at multiple levels including inspectionally, analytically, and ultimately syntopically.

      To some extent, the knowledge of the method for excerpting and arranging will ultimately allow the interested lifelong learner the ability to read syntopically even if it isn't the sort of targeted exercise it might be within creating a thesis.

  3. Oct 2023
    1. RuLE 3. SETFORTH THE MAJOR PARTS OF THE BOOK, AND SHOW HOW THESEARE ORGANIZED INTO A WHOLE, BY BEING ORDERED TO ONE .(\NOTHER AND TO THE UNITY OF THE WHOLE,
    2. RULE 2. STATE THE UNITY OF THE WHOLE BOOK IN A

      SINGLE SENTENCE, OR AT MOST A FEW SENTENCES ( A SHORT PARAGRAPH )

      p. 75-76

    3. Analytical reading is preeminently for thesake of understanding.
  4. Sep 2023
  5. Apr 2023
    1. The first rule of analytical reading can be expressed asfollows : RULE 1. You MUST KNOW WHAT KIND OF BOK YOU AREREADING, AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS AS EARLY IN THE PROCESSAS POSSIBLE, PREFERABLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO READ.
  6. Nov 2022
    1. during an analytical reading, you will need to give answers to questions about the truthand significance of the book. The notes you make at this levelof reading are, therefore, not structural but conceptual.

      Conceptual notes are made during the analytical reading of a book and "give answers to questions about the truth and significance of the book."

    2. 3. Is THE BOOK TRUE, IN WHOLE OR PART?
    3. Superficialreading is the first necessary step in the interpretation of abook's contents.
    4. Milton,for example, wrote more or less lengthy headings, or "Arguments," as he called them, for each book of Paradise Lost.
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  9. Aug 2021
    1. Analytical thinking takes something apart, system thinking understands what the thing is a part of.Analytical Thinking identifies the properties and behaviors of the parts taken separately, System Thinking understands the behavior of the bigger whole which the thing is a part of.Analytical Thinking aggregates the understanding of the parts into an understanding of the whole, System Thinking understands the role or function of the thing as a part of the whole.

      a) Bu sistemin önemli parçaları nelerdir?

      b) Bu parçaları birbirine bağlayan ve birbirine uyumunu sağlayan başlıca süreçler nelerdir?

      c) Sistemin gerçekleştirmek istediği amaçlar nelerdir?

      Sistem düşüncesi neyin parçası olduğu ile sorgular

    2. Analytical thinking helps us understand how stuff works, system thinking helps us understand why stuff works the way it does.

      Analitik düşünce, sistemin yapısı ile ilgilenip nesnelerin veya olayların nasıl oluştuğunu tanımlamaya çalışırken, Sentez düşüncesi sistemin fonksiyonuna odaklanıp nesnelerin veya olayların niçin meydana geldiğini anlamaya çalışmaktadır.

    3. Analytical Thinking: breaking things apart in order to understand how stuff works by seeing the whole as a sum of its parts.

      Analitik düşünme yöntemi, bütünü parçalarıyla görerek nasıl çalıştığını anlama çabası.

  10. Mar 2021
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  12. Sep 2020
    1. There are four rules to Analytical Reading Classify the book according to kind and subject matter. State what the whole book is about with the utmost brevity. Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you have outlined the whole. Define the problem or problems the author is trying to solve.

      the [[four rules to [[analytical reading]]]]

    2. At this point, you start to engage your mind and dig into the work required to understand what’s being said. I highly recommend you use marginalia to converse with the author.

      From the linked article

      Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it— which comes to the same thing— is by writing in it.

      Really love that quote - the idea of [[marginalia]] is to write in the margins, take notes as you read - to ask questions and answer them, and context around the highlights.

      In turn, [[make the book your own]]

    3. Analytical reading is a thorough reading. If inspectional reading is the best you can do quickly, this is the best reading you can do given time.

      [[analytical reading]] is one of the [[four levels of reading]] - the goal is to get to know a particular text very well.

  13. Dec 2016
    1. Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin'The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason

      The idea that a word, that the American people has based this country and every war we have aided in, is just a word is made to have an impact that maybe we have lost what a democracy is. If we are living in our "democracy" than have we become blind as this "average citizen" to live our lives sufficiently that we forget about the people who don't live in the luxury that we are. If democracy is just a word than it has become worthless and we have become transparent to it.

  14. Jan 2016
    1. These models

      I use a model for analysis that goes like this:

      1. What is the "text"?
      2. What is the context?
      3. What is the subtext?

      I initially used this model to teach 8th graders about how to analyze political cartoons. Later I used it as a tool for analyzing all manner of media. I have added a fourth text to this.

      1. What are the pretexts (assumptions)?