Week 14 MAY! Train theme continues + variations, conventions
Gladys Knight and the Pips! An Atlanta group of classic R&B and pop fusion that deserve their longevity. Here is Garth Brooks honoring Ms. Knight at the 2022 Kennedy Center Honors program. You can see her in the opening verse: glorious red dress on a balcony seat. (I made the video smaller as a design technique to subtly underscore that she is the larger luminary and his work falls under her haio.)
Tomorrow, I will post a train video that is connected to the Boulder people.
Today, I will walk us through this checklist/guidance document you can work from as you prepare to pull into the Main Train Station for your trip. Why do I post the link again? Anytime we can be courteous to busy readers, we are building our ethos as an ethical thinker/writer/speaker. Your time is valuable and I want to both honor that AND have you feel at some level that you are being respected.
Go forth little Terps and do the same, ok? Perhaps this is the most important lesson of the class. Or, you can learn pips moves for your next wedding reception -->
Does the nesting of these videos by size and relative importance help you think about YOUR definition work?
- essential definitions (aka Gladys' original work with her beloved Pips) FIRST
- helpful and interesting follow-up (aka Garth's honor of her with his soul work upon a country spine) NEXT
- do you need to nest small ones or reminders of 1 and 2 just noted within your body paras/points/Cool Things?
Marybeth Shea
Happy Wednesday! Here is a link to a rich and practical explication of ABT framework within science by Keisha Barh, a marine biologist. Caution: 67 page PDF. I think you should save this for your real-world writing that matters to you. In a way, you have writing that propels your career forward. :)
See how your ABT statement can organize your thinking and writing for cognitive flow (both you and your readers).
Now, you can look to see if you chime bells in your review, based on phrases (loud bell!!!!!) and concepts (Subtle belll !!) that appear in your ABT early on.
More on the power of narrative structure (ABT is one such structure). Long axis from Head (LOGOS), through Heart (PATHOS), and down through the GUT (ETHOS) to, well, the gonads+pelvic floor.
And yes, we hear/see from Randy Olson again. Two qualities to contrast are:
- Narrative structure, ABT, follows a horizontal axis arrow (times arrow, actually)
- Rational->irrational structure -- head, heart, guts, gonads/sex organs-- follows a vertical axis, where the action is from top down.
Five minutes of exciting Randy, with an Australian scientist/interview:
Let's re-inforce our other cogntive strategy within narrative structures and this is the bin theory of people's ability to uptake and work with pieces of information on the fly, as in, when reading/encounting complexity the first time.
Recall the “power of three, four, or seven” of George Miller (1956) -- see links in your Reading Grid! -- BUT also look at this 2012 Science Daily summary of “four is magical” ; bottom line (THEREFORE)?
Three or four, plus perhaps subclusters of related ideas for a total of seven is a good strategy for audience cognition and memory.
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