#stasisisawesome

This week has been the most interesting for me in regards to the article Understanding Misunderstandings: How to do a rhetorical analysis since it covers the miscommunication and misconceptions that occur through communication. As i pointed out in class, the word stasis stood out to me the most as it was referenced multiple times and seemed to be the center of what the article was about. After going over it’s definition and theoretical practice and origin, I could see it resonate with what I hope to do as a career, which is analyzing work and information. Tying this analytical to process to previous articles we’ve covered only made it much more clarifying seeing how it works and how it can be implemented to different genres of writing and mediums. It also conveyed how everything is tied together by this shared form of theoretical analysis. The reason I stress the word theoretical is because it is one of other forms of analytical processes used to decipher writing. Another aspect of today’s discussion I found interesting was how everyone seemed to have varying opinions and perspectives as to which component of stasis was more prevalent in the article. Discussions usually have disagreements, but to have them organized by the stasis process seemed to give more clarity to the different components within the text, enabling us to understand it a lot better than before the discussion. I thought the seriousness of the issue was the most prevalent aspect of the stasis in As We May Think since it seemed to highlight scientific research and it’s role in society incessantly, but once everybody starting discussing their perspective otherwise, I could see why they thought what they thought. Then again, the article could very well cover all four processes, but all in all, I still feel the most encompassing aspect was of the quality of the issue it was discussing