Invention - Writing Commons https://writingcommons.org The encyclopedia for writers Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:17:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://writingcommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cropped-WC-Site-23-32x32.png Invention - Writing Commons https://writingcommons.org 32 32 Inner Speech – How to Trust Your Writerly Voice https://writingcommons.org/section/writing-process/invention/inner-speech/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:30:11 +0000 https://writingcommons.org/?post_type=section&p=61571 What is Inner Speech? Inner speech refers to the silent, mental dialogue that writers experience during the writing process. Writers actively listen to their inner speech while composing. During drafting writers are constantly asking themselves questions. They are in dialog with themselves throughout the process. Writers ask themselves questions as they engage in rhetorical analysis ... Read more

The post Inner Speech – How to Trust Your Writerly Voice appeared first on Writing Commons.]]> Finding the Bunny: How to Make a Personal Connection to Your Writing https://writingcommons.org/section/writing-process/invention/how-to-make-a-personal-connection-to-your-writing/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:26:15 +0000 https://writingcommons.org/?post_type=section&p=54043 How many times have you had to slog through the process of writing a paper? An assignment is due next week, or tomorrow, but you struggle to put words on the page. Maybe when you have the freedom to choose your topic, you connect, but when a topic is assigned to you, you’re at a ... Read more

The post Finding the Bunny: How to Make a Personal Connection to Your Writing appeared first on Writing Commons.]]> Felt Sense https://writingcommons.org/section/writing-process/invention/felt-sense/ Tue, 25 May 2021 09:57:28 +0000 https://writingcommons.org/?post_type=section&p=29353 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 ... Read more

The post Felt Sense appeared first on Writing Commons.]]> Commonplaces (Topoi) https://writingcommons.org/section/writing-process/invention/commonplaces/ Tue, 06 Apr 2021 07:10:59 +0000 https://writingcommons.org/?post_type=section&p=27168 Commonplaces (Topoi) are Related Concepts: Cultural Literacy; Intersubjectivity; Scholarship as a Conversation; Register Commonplaces, which Aristotle and the Greeks conceptualized as Topoi, are shared understandings among people. Thus, the commonplace is a rhetorical construct: it presumes a rhetor and an audience. For the Greeks, commonplaces included what had been said in the past about a ... Read more

The post Commonplaces (Topoi) appeared first on Writing Commons.]]> The Business Model Canvas https://writingcommons.org/section/writing-process/invention/invention-heuristics/the-business-model-canvas/ Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:46:21 +0000 https://writingcommons.org/?post_type=section&p=24295 The Business Model Canvas is an invention tool that is used by entrepreneurs to develop business propositions (aka business theses) an heuristic a model of core business processes a drafting tool an empirical method you can use to investigate the viability of business opportunities and entrepreneurial processes. Venture Design is a model of entrepreneurial processes ... Read more

The post The Business Model Canvas appeared first on Writing Commons.]]> Heuristics https://writingcommons.org/section/writing-process/invention/invention-heuristics/ Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:26:28 +0000 https://transfer.writingcommons.org/?post_type=section&p=6111 The term heuristic is derived from the Greek word heuresis, which means to discover or invent. Heuristics in contemporary discourse are exercises writers, speakers, knowledge workers . . . use to stimulate thinking about a subject, topic. Heuristics do not predispose a particular outcome but are instead meant to serve as points of departure. There ... Read more

The post Heuristics appeared first on Writing Commons.]]> Preliminary Research https://writingcommons.org/section/writing-process/invention/preliminary-research/ Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:43:42 +0000 https://transfer.writingcommons.org/?post_type=section&p=5039 Preliminary Research is to early invention efforts people engage in to identify topics of interest. Writers engage in Preliminary Research during the early stages of composing in order to identify the scope of their investigation. Preliminary Research could involve discussions with friends about ideas. interviews with experts, bosses, clients, and teachers. scanning a wikipedia page ... Read more

The post Preliminary Research appeared first on Writing Commons.]]> Invention – How to Realize Your Creative Potential https://writingcommons.org/section/writing-process/invention/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 19:11:58 +0000 https://transfer.writingcommons.org/?post_type=section&p=2541 What is Invention? Invention is the act of creation. In it’s most pure form, invention refers to the moments when you create something novel, something that has never existed before. Invention may also refer to Related Concepts Believing Game; Composing; Customer Discovery; Growth Mindset; Openness; Prewriting Invention: 6 Definitions of Invention See below for a summary ... Read more

The post Invention – How to Realize Your Creative Potential appeared first on Writing Commons.]]> Freewriting https://writingcommons.org/section/writing-process/invention/freewriting/ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 08:49:24 +0000 https://transfer.writingcommons.org/?post_type=section&p=1985 Use freewriting to avoid writer’s block, stimulate your thinking on a subject, and find your voice. Freewriting involves writing without stopping. Your goal is to write whatever ideas occur to you, using a pen or pencil and paper or using a computer with the monitor turned off. When freewriting, your focus is to generate ideas ... Read more

The post Freewriting appeared first on Writing Commons.]]> In the Moment: A Write-from-Experience Activity https://writingcommons.org/article/in-the-moment-a-write-from-experience-activity/ Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:51:33 +0000 https://transfer.writingcommons.org/2014/06/27/in-the-moment-a-write-from-experience-activity/ This assignment asks you to craft a story based on personal experience. This is different from literary analysis or research paper assignments which ask you to open with a thesis to continually reference and support. Stories are constructed differently. Successful stories describe events in such a way that readers get to experience the story as if they were directly observing events. Consider the following when drafting, writing, and revising:

Place your readers into a significant moment you’ve experienced. Narrow your focus from the start. Select a story out of one, tiny, narrow corner of your life and avoid expanding on all the details around the story. Do not give us an introduction that explains everything before it happens. Let the story speak for itself and trust your readers work at discovering what your story is about. Try to drop your readers into the action of your story to create immediacy.

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