Creative Writing for Critical Thinking by Hélène Edberg

Author:Hélène Edberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

[…] I wanted to change [perspective] and change and change again. […] (Liv)

In (74), Liv explains that she is interested in analytical work, as she problematizes a moral issue by working with it in many steps, and wants to “change … and change and change again.” Through the rhetorical figure Liv expresses a desire to explore. Liv wants to change perspectives to learn new things and finds exploring a subject by means of variation and repetition interesting. By repeating the theme but changing the perspective, the subject can use triangulation to study patterns in texts: her own texts as well as those written by the other students. That way the narratives can be observed and discussed as empirical data , not only as examples of texts written for literary purposes, where discussions tend to be about readers’ responses or style as expressed in the genre-oriented position.

The discoursal identity is constructed as one of many themes for analysis in the communicative profile. For example, it may appear in discussions about the link between autobiographical self and style , as in example (75).75. Style as an analytical tool

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