Information is presented through specific designs.

What are some different ways of presenting information/arguments/narratives about a subject?

• Think about the different parts/pieces of the subject.
• What kinds of different patterns can those pieces be put into?
• How do the different patterns help to convey that larger information?
  • Examples:
    • This American Life
    • Folks Songs for Five Points
    • Pittsburgh Signs Project

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• Stranging your topic: Showing what we don’t know about ordinary or “obvious” topics

• Dialectical images: Expanding your scope and relevance.

• Montage in style and substance 

• Method: What’s your writing method?

• Inventional thought: How do you develop, invent, and expand on ideas?

• Collection: Research as searching first, before eliminating.

• Montage/collage: Making arguments and narratives through non-linear fragments.

• Writing experiments as inventional process. In class writings.