EN 3220 Written Analysis
ITT Technical Institute
EN 3220 Written Analysis
Unit # 1
June 18, 2014
EN 3220 Written Analysis
• Please give me a sheet of paper with the following information:
• Your name
• Your address
• Your phone number where I can reach you
• Your major
• What job you’d like to have
• Your interests (sports, physical fitness, etc)
• What courses/background you have in writing courses Grading
• As you can see from the syllabus, the final grades will be based on a large number of items. The final exam will be based on items we discuss in class. The quizzes and exercises are all listed on the syllabus.
Your Portfolio
Please buy a folder and place all your writing and assignments in that folder. Routinely I will collect your folders so please bring those folders …show more content…
Chapter 1: Signs and Intentionality
• According to Husserl, signs and what they signify may have nothing to do with each other. A red light signals that cars should stop. Red and stopping are not inherently connected; we have attached the meaning of stopping to the red light.
• As writers and researchers, we always have to question whether arguments we are reading are based on this sort of development of meaning.
Chapter 1: eidos
• According to Husserl, the essence of things (eidos) are grasped both in their actuality and in their possibility. • As such, human experience is not solely dependent on empirically observed data. Rather, we disclose and intuit meaning as part of the process of understanding. • In other words, things are not solely things. They are also what we intuit, meaning(s) we assign to them.
Chapter 1: the tabula rasa
• The notion of a passive tabula rasa is replaced by a sort of bipolar notion of consciousness.
• We become part of the understanding.
• This is only part of the process, however.
• Once we have come in contact with the actual, and
EN 3220 Written Analysis
Unit # 1
June 18, 2014
EN 3220 Written Analysis
• Please give me a sheet of paper with the following information:
• Your name
• Your address
• Your phone number where I can reach you
• Your major
• What job you’d like to have
• Your interests (sports, physical fitness, etc)
• What courses/background you have in writing courses Grading
• As you can see from the syllabus, the final grades will be based on a large number of items. The final exam will be based on items we discuss in class. The quizzes and exercises are all listed on the syllabus.
Your Portfolio
Please buy a folder and place all your writing and assignments in that folder. Routinely I will collect your folders so please bring those folders …show more content…
Chapter 1: Signs and Intentionality
• According to Husserl, signs and what they signify may have nothing to do with each other. A red light signals that cars should stop. Red and stopping are not inherently connected; we have attached the meaning of stopping to the red light.
• As writers and researchers, we always have to question whether arguments we are reading are based on this sort of development of meaning.
Chapter 1: eidos
• According to Husserl, the essence of things (eidos) are grasped both in their actuality and in their possibility. • As such, human experience is not solely dependent on empirically observed data. Rather, we disclose and intuit meaning as part of the process of understanding. • In other words, things are not solely things. They are also what we intuit, meaning(s) we assign to them.
Chapter 1: the tabula rasa
• The notion of a passive tabula rasa is replaced by a sort of bipolar notion of consciousness.
• We become part of the understanding.
• This is only part of the process, however.
• Once we have come in contact with the actual, and