This assignment is like an analogy.
1.
Open a book at random; Google anything. Resemblance, in the form of precedent, analogy, or comparison, is ubiquitous.
Showing contrast demonstrates the limits of the resemblance. As a matter of fact, it is important to show the limitations of the similarity to make a useful comparison.
2.
Teachers use analogies to get across new ideas. Textbooks abound in them. If fact, cognitive scientists put analogical thinking among the higher orders, so teaching it is just as important in teacher development as in the classroom.
One method teachers are taught is called TWA (Teaching With Analogies). Teachers are taught to point out similarities between the target and analogue, (the thing you are trying to explain and the comparison you are using) and show the limitations of the analogy before drawing conclusions.
For example, one idea that is difficult to explain is how a writer must always identify the rhetorical situation before beginning a writing project. This is the target concept. One analogy I use is to compare this to getting dressed and groomed before leaving the house: the analogue. As for similarities, I argue that you don’t decide what to wear until you know who your audience is. You decision is different for school or church or a party or a court appearance. You are sizing up the rhetorical situation. Likewise, when composing an argument, you make choices about the words you choose, the tone you take, and the way you arrange your argument. Actually, there are a lot of similarities.
This limitation of this analogy is that you can experience your everyday audience and see how they react (or don’t) in a way you rarely can when you write.
3.
Doctors and nurses ask patients to explain their symptoms by saying what they are like. Judges use analogies to explain decisions. In fact, every field employs analogical reasoning in some ways.
Research Challenge: Find out how analogies are used in your field. The answers may be surprising.
4.
Demonstrating how bad someone’s pet analogies are won’t make friends at parties, but is useful in winning arguments. In order to do this, you have to show that the dissimilarities are stronger than the similarities. This is often done by showing the absurdity of the comparison.
"… science has been looking at gravity the wrong way and that there is something more basic, from which gravity ‘emerges,’ the way stock markets emerge from the collective behavior of individual investors …", writes Dennis Overbye in “A Scientist looks at Gravity”, attempting to popularize the work of physicist Erik Verlinde. Yeah, but stock markets crash and get manipulated by greed.
Find an example of a bad analogy that is current. Show how the dissimilarities outweigh the similarities.
Argument by Analogy Final
This assignment is like an analogy.
1.
Open a book at random
;
Google anything. Resemblance, in the
form
of precedent,
analogy,
or
comparison
,
is ubiquitous
.
Showing contrast demonstrates the limits of the resembl
a
nce
.
As a matter o
f fact,
it is important to
show the limitations of the similarity
to make a useful comparison
.
2.
Teachers use analogies to get across new ideas. Textbooks abound in them. If fact
,
cognitive scientists
put analogical thinking among the higher orders, so teaching it is just as important in teacher
development as in the classroom.
One method teachers are taught is called TWA (
T
eaching
W
ith
A
nalogies
). Teachers are taught to
point
out
similarities between the target and analogue
,
(the
thing you are trying to explain and the
comparison you are using)
and show t
he
limitations of the analogy
before drawing conclusions.
For example
, one idea that is difficult to explain is how a writer must always identify the rhetorical
situation before
beginning
a writing project.
This is the target concept. One analogy I use is to compare
this to getting dressed and groomed before leaving the house: the analogue.
As for similarities, I argue
that you don
’
t decide what to wear until you know who your audie
nce is. You decision is
different for
school or church or
a party or
a court appearance. You are sizing up the
rhetorical situation.
L
i
kewise,
when composing an argument
,
you make choices about
the
words you choose, the tone you take, and
the way you
arrange
your
argument
.
Actually, there are a lot of similarities.
This limitation of this analogy is that you can experi
ence your everyday audience and see how they react
(or don
’
t)
in a way
you rarely can when you
write.
Find an example
of
one
your teachers
or textbook authors
using
analogy to get across an unfamiliar
idea.
Find an example of how similarity (resemblance) is argued in one of the research articles you
have used or a textbook you are reading.
Argument by Analogy Final
This assignment is like an analogy.
1.
Open a book at random; Google anything. Resemblance, in the form of precedent, analogy, or
comparison, is ubiquitous.
Showing contrast demonstrates the limits of the resemblance. As a matter of fact, it is important to
show the limitations of the similarity to make a useful comparison.
2.
Teachers use analogies to get across new ideas. Textbooks abound in them. If fact, cognitive scientists
put analogical thinking among the higher orders, so teaching it is just as important in teacher
development as in the classroom.
One method teachers are taught is called TWA (Teaching With Analogies). Teachers are taught to point
out similarities between the target and analogue, (the thing you are trying to explain and the
comparison you are using) and show the limitations of the analogy before drawing conclusions.
For example, one idea that is difficult to explain is how a writer must always identify the rhetorical
situation before beginning a writing project. This is the target concept. One analogy I use is to compare
this to getting dressed and groomed before leaving the house: the analogue. As for similarities, I argue
that you don’t decide what to wear until you know who your audience is. You decision is different for
school or church or a party or a court appearance. You are sizing up the rhetorical situation. Likewise,
when composing an argument, you make choices about the words you choose, the tone you take, and
the way you arrange your argument. Actually, there are a lot of similarities.
This limitation of this analogy is that you can experience your everyday audience and see how they react
(or don’t) in a way you rarely can when you write.
Find an example of one your teachers or textbook authors using analogy to get across an unfamiliar idea.
Find an example of how similarity (resemblance) is argued in one of the research articles you
have used or a textbook you are reading.
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