Illustration

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Icons, Ideograms, Pictographs

Icons, Ideograms, Pictographs are a sign, an image, that graphically represents a concept or a thing a way to show rather than tell, a way to engage the audience’s senses rather than to tell a lingua franca, a tool of language, a way to communicate to global audiences Key Concepts: Text & Intertextuality; Design Caution: ...

Information Design

Information Design is a process—the act of designing information in order to facilitate clarity and interpretation. a subject of academic study conventions, discourse patterns Organizational Schema Paragraph Schemas Rhetorical Moves Sentence Schemas Transitional Language, Metalanguage, Seques a set of interoperability standards that enable sharing of information across hardware platforms, software, and coding languages. Related Concepts: ...

Data Visualization – Information Visualization – The Art of Visualizing Meaning For Better Decision-Making

What is Data Visualization? Data visualization refers to the practice of transforming information/data into visual representations to simplify and communicate complex information clearly and effectively. Designers strategically use colors, shapes, and symbols to bridge the gap between raw data and human understanding, empowering viewers to better interpret and analyze the information presented. Key Words: Design; ...

Information Architecture

Information architecture is a broad term that is used in different ways by different discourse communities, communities of practice. Information architecture Synonyms information architecture may be Related Concepts: Deductive Order, Deductive Reasoning; Design Thinking; Inductive Order, Inductive Reasoning; Evidence; Organization; Venture Design.

21st Century Literacies & Writing Studies

Writing Studies is an academic discipline grounded in the humanities and education rather than STEM. Some theorists and researchers in Writing Studies have shared the STEM community’s curiosity about the role of intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies in writing processes. Back in the 1980s, for instance, writing theorists such as Robert Boice wrote beautifully on the psychology ...

Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is Hermeneutics is derived Key Terms: Critical Thinking; Critical Analysis; Dialectic; Flow, Coherence, Unity; Given to New Order; Semiotics; Text & Intertextuality. Since antiquity, scholars interested in hermeneutics have asked fundamental questions of interpretation and understanding: Interpretation Understanding Hermeneutics as a Field The term hermeneutics may Hermeneutics as a Field of Study Initially, hermeneutics ...

Rhetoric concerns perception, interpretation, and communication

Rhetorical Knowledge

What is Rhetorical Analysis? Rhetorical knowledge is Key Words: Epistemology; Rhetoric; Rhetorical Analysis; Rhetorical Situation Why Does Rhetorical Knowledge Matter? In Principles for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing, The Conference on College Composition — the major conference for researchers and teachers in writing studies — defines rhetorical knowledge as a foundational competency in college-level writing: ...

Knowledge

Knowledge refers to the understanding, awareness, and retention of information, concepts, and experiences acquired through perception, learning, and reasoning. Key Terms: Knowledge Claim; Scholarly Conversation As humans, we are driven to expand human knowledge. When people say they want to make a contribution to human knowledge, they probably mean they hope to develop an original ...

This pic is of the parliamentary archives at Victoria Tower, Palace of Westminster,

Archive – What Do Writers Need to Know About the Archive?

What is an Archive? An archive refers to An archive reflects the theories and practices of a community of practitioners such as academic and professional writers. Members of a discourse community need to be somewhat aware of the archives that inform the articles of faith, theories, and practices of their respective discourse communities. Traditionally, an ...