Gray day = happy day

Types of analyzing data:

1. Faigley's social perspective
   
2. Intertextuality (Bazerman/Selzer): p. 88 wwd; 1) direct quotation, 2) indirect quotation, 3) mentioning another document, 4) commenting on another text, 5) using recognizable phrasing; categories of writing we see
   
3. "Tracing writing process" (Prior): A) analyzing texts: same btw drafts, slightly revised, added, [deleted]; B) Thinking Aloud -->differentiating the different types of comments
   
4. Influence of Workplace Culture on Writing/revising (editorial comments)
   
5. Analyzing genres: Prominent Linguistic Features (uses active verbs, presents concrete details), Rhetorical features ( what is person doing to make argument in the progress report?), Organizational Features (chronological order)
6. Speaking/writing Connection
   
7. Rhetorical Theories: definitions/concepts can give as lenses to analyze what's happening in texts
   
8. Coding data:reading all the collected data, looking for patterns, themes, similarities/differences to emerge
   

How do these work as a way of analyzing data that we collect/difference b/t this and analyzing throughout.

Freewrite: how will I gather data?  try to think specifically...how might I try to start making sense of things?

Going one by one through the types of analyses aforemetioned, the following is how I will use that to enable me to analyze the documents and such:

begin by observing the writer writing a document.  have him explain the thoughts that go through his head while writing, while taking an inventory of what he does/uses to help him get the writing done.  once that is completed, or when he comes to a stopping place (but will add more later), ask him questions about why he chose certain words/phrases.  ask about the tone of the document, as well as the level of understanding needed to read the document and take out meaning (i.e. does the person reading the document at the other end need to be an expert in that field, or is it fine for a novice to read?).  continue to ask him questions about why he chose certain words over others.  then, observe the correcting/continuation of the document.  when that is finished, begin the questions again...

Triangulation: As you analyze data from one source, consider/analyze data you've collected from another source--does it confirm, challenge, complicate your initial analysis?