Methods of Analysis

I was really looking forward to getting a lesson on Confucianism while reading this article, but turns out, that's not what I would be reading. Ding more than anything discusses the different methodologies of analysis' of rhetoric, what comparative rhetoric is and while explaining and describing in detail the methods she used to to research Analects, she helped me undersand what our next paper really is all about.

So rather than searching for the information and discourse buried within her amazing research methodology descriptions concerning Analects,  I attempted to conceptualize the structure of the paper itself. First, his introduction of comparative rhetoric and its methods and the criticisms of it (while sneaking in his major argument) by first proposing his idea of how she will do his research, then explaining why she proposes this form and topic, and lastly giving reason for why (his purpose). Following this, just as our papers do, she gives a brief historical background of certain aspects of the topic itself. THEN (and here's the biggie because it's exactly what we're working on) she goes into the different types of methodologies and procedures she will be using. This is the section I pulled from the most, seeing that I found some of his methods and procedures very interesting, the corpus linguistic technique of concordance and lexical analysis and rhetorical analysis (146).  I liked it because it reminds me of articulation, in a sense. By taking a part the text little by little (chunking it, pretty much), analyzing those chunks separately   and then going back through the information bottom up- I feel his approach/method allows us to really break down the information..although, very time consuming.

sHe then gets more into his topic of research...which I'm not going to lie, was, um..kind of skimmed and read through quickly- as I said above, I really was just looking at the structure and order of his paper rather than really analyzing the research she did herself. Anyways, as I was saying she got into his work of yan and ren, and did his linquistic corpus technique with it, then after, pulled it all together to get to she most interesting part...the "Three Types of Rhetors and Their Respective Ways to Achieve Persuasion"- which is where she ties in all of the articulation and chunking she had done in his method of research and comes to his conclusion.