Editing Question 2: Uncovering the tacit mental moves (section)

=== Analogies ===
One of the most powerful alternative techniques for Decoding is through analogies, metaphors, and narrative stories, although for brevity, we refer to all these as “analogies”. Analogies are inferential frameworks that help novices or students learn new ideas because they can transfer something they know in one domain to a different or new domain.<ref>Jones, N. A., H. Ross, T. Lynam, P. Perez, and A. Leitch. 2011. Mental models:  an interdisciplinary synthesis of theory and methods. ''Ecology and Society'' '''16'''(1): 46. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/art46/</ref> 

To come up with an analogy, it helps to consider the characteristics of a good analogy. It must be from outside the target field because the new context helps see the characteristics of the analogy (and thus the characteristics of the mental move). What is this kind of thinking? What is the DOING? Where does it fit in [[Middendorf’s Revised Bloom’s Typology|Bloom’s typology]]? Is it remembering, paraphrasing, applying, analyzing, evaluating, or creating?<ref name=":1" /> Once we have classified the type of mental move, we’re ready to look for a new context, the analogic context. 

The prompts for finding an analogy, are, “What is this kind of thinking '''like'''?” and “Where have I seen this mental move before?” When placing the mental move in a new context, be sure the new context is relatable to students or your audience.