Analytical reasoning skills enable people to identify assumptions, reasons and claims, and to examine how they interact in the formation of arguments.  We use analysis to gather information from charts, graphs, diagrams, spoken language and documents.  People with strong analytical skills attend to patterns and to details. They identify the elements of a situation and determine how those parts interact.  Strong interpretation skills can support high quality analysis by providing insights into the significance of what a person is saying or what something means.