We have been told on many occasions that our value as designers comes from the way we think. Our brains seem wired quite differently to non-creatively trained people. It would probably be fair to say that we learn in different ways too.
When I write I consciously think of the structure of what I write, some people struggle more than others with this. As a proof reader my task was how to convey the concept of analysis to a creative thinker who struggles with structure.
To make things clearer I needed to convey that there is a general pattern (a visual term) to the structure of writing. When I thought of pattern, as a textile designer I think of what that pattern looks like and how to make it clear. I devised a colour coding sytem to show what point>evidence>analysis looks like.
eg Make a point
show some evidence through describing the painting or inserting written evidence from source
Question how that evidence illustrates the point you are making in this parragraph and how does it support the argument of the essay as a whole
If the essay stripes don't show the same pattern then you know that you have become mixed up. If the analysis stripe is a bit thin then your essay is thin on analysis.
The words analysis suddenly becomes less scary and confusing. You just refer back to what the pink bit means for you to do
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