MORE TIPS FOR BEING A GOOD READER OF AN ARTICLE GOPNIK

1. What can we learn from the title/chapter headings/means of publication? What generic expectations do we have? Can we assume anything about the audience?

2. Can we find a thesis? What is surprising/interesting/debatable (hint: generally the first paragraph or two is a reading/belief/cultural trend the writer is going to question or modify in some way—the thesis will be the point where the writer says how)

3.Think about the article in terms of _your_ research questions.

Read over the whole article for a starting “big picture”

• Read again, highlighting important words, dates, concepts, definitions. To help you know what to highlight:
• Look for repeated or related words, phrases or ideas. Doing so will help you to focus on the big ideas of the text.
• Look for contrasting words, phrases or ideas. Doing so will help you figure out your author’s intentions—what ideas is the author reacting to or modifying?
• Look for anomalies, or details that don’t quite fit. Again this will help you think about the author’s intentions.

• Ultimately, look for how the author seeks to change how we think about/ analyze/ understand an idea or process--that's a "so what"
• Divide into sections
• Use title, subtitles, key words, etc
• Divide data collations from claims and changes from how those changes happen in claims
• Pay attention to author cues: "I," superlatives, changes/revises/shifts ("but," However," "yet"), conclusion words: ("thus," "therefore," "further")
• Do in-depth collations/applications/so whats as needed
• If lots of above, do in depth collation
• Pay attention to beginning of actual argument, end, anomalies
• Come in with some encounters
• what do the sections/repetitions/ binaries/anomalies set up as important questions?
• what are your own research questions?

More tips for being a good reader of an article

How to Collate a Reading:

• Focus on Patterns
• Think about Purpose
• Translate to a "So What"

Data Collation

Application

YES AND

French tradition: savage, outrageous, irrelevant

emphasize ridiculous

mock pieties

In the triangle, you are isolating the important patterns of data the author established.

The goal here is not to write down every minute detail, but to look for patterns: note what data the author focused on and whether it is arranged into a connection, contrast, or a surprising anomaly. This will take a lot of the bulk of the article and help you focus not on what small details the author discusses, but why he or she selects those details out of all the details available.

In short, summarize a pattern of details and explain whether it is a connection, contrast, or anomaly.

So What

[PATTERN(S) FROM DATA COLLATION] in LAST NAME'S ARTICLE TITLE reveals [A CONNECTION BETWEEN A NUMBER OF DETALS/ A CONTRAST BETWEEN DETAILS/ A SURPRISING ANOMALY].

TWO TO THREE SENTENCES THAT SHOW HOW THE AUTHOR USE THE DATA TO ANSWER ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

• How is your pattern part of a larger system of practice, interpretation, or relations between ideas?

• How is your pattern similar to or different from another related system of practice, interpretation, or relations between ideas?

• To what larger categories can your pattern be assigned? How does that help us understand it?

• What values does your pattern reflect? What values does it support? Contradict?

This pattern changes [PRACTICE? ANALYSIS? OUR UNDERSTANDING? CAUSATION (SOME REVERSAL OF THE INITIAL BELIEF OF RELATION OF TWO THINGS)? ORDER (CHANGE IN THE INITIAL UNDERSTANDING OF WHEN THINGS HAPPEN)?] by [HERE YOU EXPLAIN THE CHANGE].

The encounter should be understood as a list of the questions the so what answers: why did this author write the article? To develop this write a list of what question each so what answers—your questions may take the form of:

Why does [PARTICULAR ASPECT] surface in [PARTICULAR WAY]? (order/causation/

analysis)

How does [PARTICULAR ELEMENT] modify [PARTICULAR PRACTICE/ANALYSIS/ UNDERSTANDING]?

To what extent does [ELEMENT 1] replace/change [ELEMENT B]? (order/causation/

analysis)

Uber So What

Yes BUT

modern ways vs older ways of dealing with images

Specifically: new is simple, everywhere, childish old therefore is more controlled less quick/childish

?? general collation of mischief/irreverance/french traditions

So What

This pattern changes our analysis by suggesting that under certain conditions, such as those we currently have, disruption shifts from being n innovation that causes business growth to one that can destroy companies.

Application

The emphasis on panic and disorder in Jill Lepore's "The Disruption model reveals a surprising anomaly. While Lepore suggests that the idea of innovation had become the guiding way of doing business in the 1990s, she points out that recent developments may make this model less useful. Rather than leading to innovation and creating successful companies, disruption instead may be "devastating" to companies due to new political and technological factors.

TWO TO THREE SENTENCES THAT SHOW HOW THE AUTHOR USE THE DATA TO ANSWER ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

• How is your pattern part of a larger system of practice, interpretation, or relations between ideas?

• How is your pattern similar to or different from another related system of practice, interpretation, or relations between ideas?

• To what larger categories can your pattern be assigned? How does that help us understand it?

• What values does your pattern reflect? What values does it support? Contradict?

Data Collation

Anomaly:

fear, panic, devastation

So What

This pattern changes [PRACTICE? ANALYSIS? OUR UNDERSTANDING? CAUSATION (SOME REVERSAL OF THE INITIAL BELIEF OF RELATION OF TWO THINGS)? ORDER (CHANGE IN THE INITIAL UNDERSTANDING OF WHEN THINGS HAPPEN)?] by [HERE YOU EXPLAIN THE CHANGE].

Application

[PATTERN(S) FROM DATA COLLATION] in LAST NAME'S ARTICLE TITLE reveals [A CONNECTION BETWEEN A NUMBER OF DETALS/ A CONTRAST BETWEEN DETAILS/ A SURPRISING ANOMALY].

TWO TO THREE SENTENCES THAT SHOW HOW THE AUTHOR USE THE DATA TO ANSWER ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

• How is your pattern part of a larger system of practice, interpretation, or relations between ideas?

• How is your pattern similar to or different from another related system of practice, interpretation, or relations between ideas?

• To what larger categories can your pattern be assigned? How does that help us understand it?

• What values does your pattern reflect? What values does it support? Contradict?

Data Collation

In the triangle, you are isolating the important patterns of data the author established.

The goal here is not to write down every minute detail, but to look for patterns: note what data the author focused on and whether it is arranged into a connection, contrast, or a surprising anomaly. This will take a lot of the bulk of the article and help you focus not on what small details the author discusses, but why he or she selects those details out of all the details available.

In short, summarize a pattern of details and explain whether it is a connection, contrast, or anomaly.