Birth of Bright Ideas 课文结构分析/text structure analysis

 In the reading passage we have examined the structure to show that the writer is trying to present through contrast different ways of forming big ideas: one is the conscious mind knows nothing about the process of idea forming while the other is the conscious mind observes the process of idea forming. By making a contrast, the writer is, in fact, telling us how big ideas are formed.
  It is quite natural that we are making contrasts or comparisons every day. Through making contrasts and comparisons, we make our own choices or express different ideas or just tell others there are different ways. Who hasn’t compared summer with winter, husbands with wives, residences with apartments?
  To make a contrast, the things you are to make a contrast with must have something in common. People will not likely make a contrast between the duties of a university with the rules of playing football. In the reading passage, the common base for making a contrast is some ways of forming big ideas. Just as we have shown the elements of this structure, both of them have a subject, a process and a result.