Blog 2: Define analysis. What is it? How does it work? How you might use analysis in one of the research projects?

These are some useful questions to think about when planning how to analyze a project.  Your blog post doesn't need to answer all of them = they are hear to give you something to write into.
What kinds of questions might you ask?
What might you notice/look for?
What kinds of surrounding circumstances, actions, actors, interactions, outcomes etc might it be useful to name?

Analysis is the process by which we identify the components that make up the train of thought presented by a set of information [ex: a collection of data, an essay] and name those components as we think of them. In the process, we are identifying patterns within the information and trying to draw conclusions.

The goal is to understand why the information given is set up the way it is. In other words, the analysis helps to explain the logic underlying the organization presented. It aims to do so in a more objective basing it's credibility on rules, facts and assumptions that are not defined by whim. That way, anyone looking at the analysis can agree to it's validity. Debates over analysis occur when different people have different assumptions, rules, and facts.

Seeing as my research project, although not completely defined, will talk about cultural differences, discourse, language acquisition and linguistics, I will be using analysis to find language patterns and will be trying to find connections between analysis that has already been done on my topic. In other words, I will be using analysis to identify the patterns I see and draw conclusions from there.