When you see this iconic image of Buzz Aldrin standing in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, what narative, what story occurs to you? How does this one picture capture a 1000 stories?

Photography

What is Photography? It’s Related Concepts: Concrete, Sensory Language; Description; Design Why Does Photography Matter to Writers? Photography is a powerful medium of communication, especially for Photography appeals to our senses, our sense of sight, which is a dominant mode of human perception and learning. Writers, speakers, knowledge makers . . . use photographs in ...

Illustration

Illustrations are Key Concepts: Text & Intertextuality; Design Caution: This is an article stub. Please check back in a bit. We hope to write this page soon. Still, if you have something to say, let us know.

Team Workspace

The Team Workspace is a writing space that is shared with teams. Teams can use a range of media. Snapchat. Facebook Messenger. Instagram When Teams come across interesting information about their project, it’s useful to share that information with their team. Team members need to keep one another apprised of ongoing developments. It’s not uncommon ...

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 ...

Persona

Persona is a multifaceted representation of how an individual, literary character, or entity portrays their identity to the world. It’s about masks, roles, and how these shift depending on context. Persona in writing and communication is a complex construct of characteristics that define how an individual, character, or entity is presented. Specifically, it entails: Key ...

Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetorical Analysis refers to Rhetorical Analysis is a vital workplace, academic, and personal competency–a way of producing rhetorical knowledge In January of 2020, the COVID-19 virus swept across the world, killing people, disrupting financial markets, and transforming the lives of billions of people. It was, by all accounts an unusual rhetorical situation, a pandemic that ...

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 ...

Empirical Knowledge – Empiricism

What is Empirical Knowledge? Empirical knowledge is information derived from sensory experience, observation, or experimentation. Unlike theoretical or innate knowledge, it is grounded in direct, observable evidence and practical experience. This type of knowledge is essential in research-based writing and fields like the natural sciences. What is Empiricism? Empiricism refers to a theory of knowledge ...

Tacit Knowledge

Tacit Knowledge is Related Concepts: Felt Sense; The Secret, Hidden Writing Process: How to Tap Your Creative Potential “I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell“ Michael Polanyi In The Tacit Dimension, Michael Polanyi (1966), theorized that we know much more than we can express. ...