Monday, September 24, 2007

Invention

Invention-one of the five steps in speech preparation, the process of choosing ideas appropriate to the subject, audience, and occasion. http://www.dictionary.com

No matter what kind of paper you are writing you will always start with invention. Invention is a key role in the five-part process. Brainstorming, freewriting, or clustering are approaches you use after picking a topic to write about. This process is the essence of invention. For example, you are writing a paper about your favorite actor. You will first need to figure out the different facts you are going to talk about. You need to think to yourself, what could I say about this actor to invent my paper?

You can think of invention in many possible ways. Our english group presented invention as making an actual invention. We made a paper airplane. Yes, this isn't invention in the rhetorical sense, but you still go through the same process. You brainstorm first to figure out exactly what you would like to invent. Invention plays a huge part in your writing, even if you have never noticed it before.

1 comment:

AsiA said...

Gerbs is very correct! Invention is a huge part in your writing, even if you have never noticed it before. You do have to invent what you are going to write about on any topic. Without invention, writing a paper would be impossible due to the fact that there wouldn't be any writing on your paper, unless you plagorize and take someone else's invention and act like it is your own. Well done Gerbs!