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Paper

Structure Mapping in Analogy and Similarity, by Dedre Gentner and Arthur B. Markman

Assignment

Part A

Some advisory committees write reports that consist of an executive summary accompanied by something like 30 slides, which are supplemented by explanatory legends that supply useful detail beyond what is captured in the slides. If the slides are prepare according to 6.xxx maxims, the legends are essential, because the slides will be too telegraphic to be understood on their own. The legends range in length from a sentence to a page, tending to peak at a half page. This page, taken from a report of the Naval Research Advisory Comittee (aka the Navy Science Board), illustrates.

This format is the one to be used for the project report for those of you doing projects.

In this exercise, you are to try your hand at an abbreviated version of this format. In particular, you are not to provide an executive summary, nor are you to provide more than a half dozen slides, and your legends should be closer to a sentence than than a page. Thus, you are to provide a slide show, except that the supplementary legends are meant to be read by a report reader, not spoken by you in oral delivery.

Include in your slides, or legends, or both, a demonstration that you have read and understood the paper.

Part B

With a big red pencil, or equivalent, identify salient, slogan, symbol, and surprise (if any), in your slides or legends.