Book Review: When I read a novel set in a city I know well, I must see that the writer knows the city at least as we...
sakshi_hApril 12, 2022
Problems With Interpretation...
Hello Everyone!
I think my biggest issue with these questions is interpretation when it comes to diagramming. How can I be sure what the surefire way to diagram is when there could be multiple correct options in my opinion? It also seems that the way I think to diagram and interpret is not the way the instructor does it, and I don't know how to get to the correct answer always. It seems kind of arbitrary at times.
For example, in the video explanation, the instructor takes "when the writer is faking..." to be the same as "the writer DOES NOT know the city as well as I do" in order to put it in the terms we are discussing. I understand this concept and I endeavour to do the same. However, in the next sentence, why does the instructor take "trust the storyteller" to be a separate variable than "trust the writer?" Why are these considered to be separate variables when they could both technically be diagrammed as one (trust the writer or TW)? Thanks!
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Furthermore, why is the statement "I know immediately and I do not trust that writer..." not treated as a compound statement? Because I diagrammed it as and X and Y statement.
Emil-KunkinApril 19, 2022
Hi Sakshi,
This is a tough problem that everyone goes through! First, Ill note that there is no one "correct" way to draw a diagram. Different people will have different approaches, and the best diagram is the one that captures what the stimulus says and makes sense to you. That said, I generally like to use simplicity as the main principle when I am diagraming. This would probably translate to me thinking that "knowing well" and "faking" are opposites (at least for the purpose of this question), and I would probably have taken the "writer" and the "storyteller" to be the same thing.
I think that the "know immediately and do not trust the writer" part is treated as only one thing because the "immediately" never comes up again. We don't seem to learn anything else about the time it takes to trust or distrust, so we can treat it as not particularly important.
These are basically editorial choices. The "best" way of diagraming is the one that is accurate and makes sense to you. I would recommend the office hours for must be true questions in order to see other examples of how people diagram.
