4. OPERATIVE WORD SCORING
This is one of the best text-analysis tools you can learn.
Exercise A: Highlight the Thought
Text: "I never asked you to do that."
Choose ONE operative word.
Examples:
Exercise B: Score a Monologue:
This is one of the best text-analysis tools you can learn.
Exercise A: Highlight the Thought
Text: "I never asked you to do that."
Choose ONE operative word.
Examples:
- I never asked you to do that.
- (not someone else)
- I never asked you to do that.
- (not at any time)
- I never asked you to do that.
- (it wasn't my request)
- I never asked you to do that.
- (someone else maybe)
Exercise B: Score a Monologue:
- Underline operative words. (Basically: Operative words are the words you'd highlight in a sentence.)
- Circle emotional turns.
- Mark pauses (/).
- Mark thought shifts (//).