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Literacy
Chapter: Literacy
Symbolic Communication
What is Symbolic Communication? This refers to the process of people using symbols, like words, gestures, and images, to convey information or express their thoughts, feelings, ideas, and beliefs to others. For example, a person using sign language or an artist creating a piece of work with particular symbolic meaning are both using symbolic communication. ...
Writing
Synonymous Terms Drafting. Drafting refers to the act of writing a sloppy first draft. Writers engage in exploratory writing early in the writing process. Composing. The term composing is preferred to writing or drafting in the humanities and the arts, especially writing studies and creative writing studies. Related Concepts: Growth Mindset; Invention; Research; Self Regulation; ...
Symbolic Systems
What is a Symbolic System? People compose using a variety of symbolic systems: written, alphabetical language; visual language; mathematical symbols; computer code;–and other symbolic systems. A symbolic system refers to an organized collection of symbols and the rules for their use that people recognize and understand to carry certain meanings. It’s more about the structure ...
Visual Language
What is Visual Language? Visual language refers to a writers’, speakers’, knowledge workers’ . . . use of design elements, design principles, design tools, and data visualization methods to compose and communicate. For artists and writers, when composing, whether in alphabetical discourse, multimodal compositions, or art, visual language may be a medium of expression. Related ...
Interpretation, Interpretative Frameworks
What is Interpretation? Interpretation is People make interpretations of texts and events in order to make sense of world. Interpretation is a deeply subjective process. Different people can see the exact same event and infer contrasting interpretations. Critics often disagree about the relative merits of movies, songs, and other texts. For readers, listeners, users, interpretation ...
Felt Sense
What is Felt Sense? Felt Sense refers to Related Concepts: Inner Speech; Creativity; Invention; Tacit Knowledge; Writing Processes Felt Sense & Composing Sondra Perl, a professor of English and subject matter expert in writing studies, contends writers Thus, for Perl, composing is an ongoing, recursive process where writers consult their felt sense in order to ...
Cognitive, Intrapersonal, and Interpersonal Literacies
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 ...
Semiotics: Sign, Signifier, Signified
What is Semiotics? Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols, as well as their use and interpretation. Semiotics explores how humans use and interpret signs and symbols to communicate, to learn, and to develop knowledge. This interdisciplinary field, which encompasses linguistics, philosophy, and anthropology, seeks to understand how meaning is created, transmitted, and interpreted ...
Textuality – Intertextuality
What is Textuality? Textuality refers to the intrinsic characteristics of a text, emphasizing how meaning is constructed and interpreted through its structure, language, and the context in which it is situated. It encompasses the various elements that contribute to a text’s overall meaning, such as its genre, style, and the conventions it adheres to or ...
