Prose Analysis: Purposes, Procedures, and Problems

Abstract

This chapter discusses the two procedures analysis of text and scoring recall protocols. American businessmen chartered companies for the purpose of manufacturing their own locomotives. The relation is often referred to as the condition, result, or purpose with one argument serving as the antecedent and the other as the consequent. The comparison relation points out differences and similarities between two or more topics. There are three subtypes of comparison: alternative, adversative, and analogy. Description: attribution describes qualities of a proposition; it adds colors, qualities, attributes; we often find collections of attributes describing a person, event, or idea. The farmers had removed a natural enemy of the rats—the chicken-hawk. Some historians view history as a game with players, rules, and clever plans. For this analysis procedure, the lexical predicates are identified and placed one level their role-related arguments in the content structure. A collection of descriptions about supertankers was presented in a list-like order.

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