#Z's Think-Writing File #Things to Think through via Writing #↓ #→ @RSM, @research action #- `Idea: Use Toulmin's (sp?) claim-reason-evidence-warrant structure` to guide my reasoning about and explanation of `my rough, initial, hypothesized program theory` as well as my `final, revised, evidence-informed program theory` #Booth (2008), p. 109 `Claim-reason-evidence-warrant:` ". . . every argument, research or not, is built out of answers to five questions . . . questions that you must ask yourself on your reader's behalf: * What is my claim? * What reasons support my claim? * What evidence supports my reasons? * What principle makes my reasons relevant to my claim? (We call this principle a warrant.)" #↓ ##. . . `THEREFORE`, regarding my claim as to my `hypothesized, rough, initial program theory` * I claim that ONE mechanism underlying bar diagramming is that it affords subjects the OPPORTUNITY to "add leaves to their realization trees" by engaging in MR (multimodal representation) * REASONS: distributed cognition; theory of binumeracy; appropriation of sign; UMR SOLO cycle; diagram-gesture-agency theory; embodied cognition in mathematics * PRINCIPLES: the complementarity of the two functions of sign; math as a SFMD; defining one's mathematical understanding of a signifier as one's realization tree for a mathematical signifier; MRC (multimodal representational competency) @writing, @revising #My Proposal Tables, Images, and Appendices ##My Proposal Tables Writing about My Proposal Tables #My Proposal Figures Writing about My Proposal Figures #My Proposal Appendices Writing about My Proposal Appendices #`What type of academic writer are you?` #↓ [ ] Top down [ ] Bottom up [ ] Top down at first, but then . . . 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