SCI 104
3rd Canon reflection.
As you finish reading Natalie Angier’s “The Canon,” please reflect on and
analyze the verbal models that she uses throughout the last four chapters
by following the steps below.
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Pick four models, one from each remaining chapter.
Quote the verbal model from the book and cite the page.
Identify the type of model.
Describe the purpose of the model.
Relate at least two aspects of the target to the analogue of the model.
In terms of the purpose, give one strength of the model.
In terms of the purpose, give one limitation of the model.
For extra credit, try this. Pick one of your four choices of verbal models
from above and create another verbal model that serves the same purpose
as the original. Then analyze it for its strengths and limitations as well.
Score
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Find a model
Correctly identify model as simile, metaphor or analogy
Correctly interpret the purpose
Correctly relate two aspects of model to target
Correctly analyze a strength
Correctly analyze a limitation
0.5 point
0.5 point
1 point
1 point
1 point
1 point