Without changing the overall key or rhythm of the text, you can use the insertion symbols with the unsaturated rhythm symbol to identify a particular portion of text that is less dense, more open, and somewhat incomplete.
These examples are just some of the ways you can use turn-taking symbols in text, but you can experiment with various combinations of using the turn-taking symbols with the other symbols that identify the style of text.
Using the Insertion Symbols
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Anytime you want to write a story, which means a narrative text that has a set of events about some protagonists, use a
and vice versa, anytime you see a square, interpret the text you are reading as a story.
The Square
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methodology
HGraziella *
v. 2.5 UK Tonfoni
hypertext form. *
Software
Paolo Tosolini - September 1993
Via Bembo, 5
34015
Muggia
(TS) *
Italy
tel. +39-40-275030 *
email: tosolini@univ.trieste.
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SignsRightTriangle
SignsExercise5of13
SignsInscribedArcs
VisualPointOut
TTakingInsertion3of3
SignsExercise1of13
Step 1 of 13
The exercise that follows gives you the opportunity to experience shaping text.
In this exercise you'll shape up a simple story about some common events in various ways to explore different possibilities, and you'll see how to use all of the textual signs.
Now, think about your text, which is a story, and write it in a square.
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SignsExercise4of13
Step 4 of 13
Add a comment about an event or a specific fact in your text in a triangle.
You position this triangle close to the text that triggered the comment.
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VisualInform
Inform comes from the Latin word informo, which means to put into shape or shape up.
This symbol consists of two lines that converge on a point and then depart from it. The point represents some specific information.
When you split the inform symbol at the point of convergence and divergence, you create two other symbols that more explicitly represent how you inform or shape up information.
These two symbols are Synthesize and Analyze.
HWGotoSynthesize
"VisualSynthesize"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualSynthesize
HWGotoAnalyze
"VisualAnalyze"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualAnalyze
Inform
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VisualSynthesize
Synthesize is derived from the Greek word synistemi, which means to put togheter or collect.
You synthesize when you shape up information from a broad or undefined domain to a specific point.
As the arrow in the symbol shows, you inform synthetically when you shape up information from a large, open realm into small, tight kernel.
You usually use this symbol in combination with the others.
See also Inform and Analyze.
HWGotoInform
"VisualInform"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualInform
HWGotoAnalyze
"VisualAnalyze"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualAnalyze
Synthesize
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VisualExpress
Express comes from the Latin word exprimo, which means to push out, press out.
To express means to give personal and emotional opinions about facts. Expressing is the most subjective style of writing. It is bound to your personal experiences, likes, and feelings.
This symbol, with its indistinct boundaries, represents a visual territory that is subject to modification according to personal opinions, mood and state of mind.
See also Reformulate.
e also reformulate.
HWGotoReformulate
"VisualReformulate"
buttonUp
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VisualReformulate
Express
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VisualDescribe
VisualExplain
SignsOpenedTextSpace
When you or a reader develop an alternative to part of the text, open up a new element in space for the new alternative. Attach the opened text space to the existing text, so that you can see both the old and new versions of the text.
The sign for the new alternative tells you where to provide an alternative development of the text.
When you or the reader complete text for the alternative, fill up the empty text space with it and present it in this manner.
The Opened Text Space
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SignsExercise13of13
Step 13 of 13
Now think about what concepts the text triggers in you. The text will become just a word or a set of words that corresponds to those concepts and is positioned within one or more circles.
This is a synthetical process. You are going here from the analytical part of the text, with all its information and language, into abstractions, which you put into round shapes.
This is how the text becomes an abstraction expressed as either a word or a set of words.
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VisualExplain
Explain is derived from the Latin word explano, which means to unwrap or open up.
When you explain something, you present facts in a cause and effect order. You may start from the original cause and move downward progressively to a set of effects or, alternatively, proceed from the effects and move upward toward the original cause.
This symbol is a graphic representation of a procedural description. The symbol shows that you can go in two directions, from cause to effects or vice versa.
See also Regress.
HWGotoRegress
"VisualRegress"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualRegress
Explain
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VisualRegress
Regress comes from the latin word regredior, which means to go back.
When you regress, you give more information about a certain item within a chain of information. The regression provides a context for the item so that readers can understand it from a less informed or different viewpoint.
This symbol has two parts because it represents a two-step process. The lower part means the identification of the word, sentence or paragraph where you want to regress; the upper one the act of zooming out from it.
See also Explain.
HWGotoExplain
"VisualExplain"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualExplain
Regress
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VisualDefine
SignsExercise13of13
SignsFrame
SignsOpenedTextSpace
SignsSemicircle
SignsExercise8of13
Step 8 of 13
Now instead of including a concept or an idea, add another comment that is related to a different part of the text.
Put this comment within another triangle and place it on the other side of the square.
Before you can place it there, you'll need to remove the semicircle that is currently on the right side of the text, as in this case, it is less relevant than your comment.
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SignsExercise6of13
Step 6 of 13
Add a concept or an idea that was triggered by the text in a semicircle.........
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SignsCircle
VisualReformulate
Reformulate comes from the Latin words reformo, reformulo, which means change shape and shape again.
To reformulate text, you reposition yourself with a different attitude about your intention as a writer.
You change your writing by switching from one style to another. For instance, you can reformulate a description into a definition.
The symbol for reformulate conveys the idea of making a transition or switching from one style to another.
See also Express.
HWGotoExpress
"VisualExpress"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualExpress
Reformulate
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VisualNarrate
TurnTakingIndex
TTakingMinorScale
TTakingSatured
This symbol indicates to readers that you consider the text as complete. When you include this symbol to mark off a portion of text, you indicate to readers that as far as you are concerned, the text is comprehensive, accurate, and finished.
You want them to accept the text as it is, and not add anything to it.
See also Open or Unsaturated Rhythm...rmation if they can.
See also Tight or Saturated Rhythm.
HWGotoTTUnsatured
"TTakingUnsatured"
buttonUp
buttonUp
TTakingUnsatured
Tight or
Saturated
Rhythm
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TTakingInsertion1of3
Step 1 of 3
You can also use a vee-like insertion symbol to direct the attention of readers to a particular portion of text.
The insertion symbols when used in combination with the describe symbol explicitly identify the portion of text between them as a description.
You are explicitly telling readers you want them to interpret this very specific part of text as a description. The text that precedes or follows it, however, may exhibit a different style.
Using the Insertion Symbols
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TTakingInsertion2of3
Step 2 of 3
The explain symbol ( which is just an example here - it could be any other symbol ) may be included in the margin or at the beginning of a section of text to tell readers that the text is predominately an explanation.
Within the explanation, however, you can also place insertion symbols with the analyze symbol to mark off a particular part of the explanation that is analytical.
precedes or follows it, however, may exhibit a different style.
Using the Insertion Symbols
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SignsExercise1of13
SignsExercise10of13
SignsBackground
SignsTriangle
Origami_5
SignsExercise5of13
Your text with your comment now looks like this.
The text is in the middle since it is the most important, the summary is on the top of it, and the comment is on the left of it.
The shape of the comment and its position next to the main text signals the reader that what is inside the triangle is a comment triggered by the text.
Step 5 of 13
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SignsRightTriangle
Anytime you want to write a comment, a personal reaction or evaluation, related to a certain text, use a
and vice versa, anytime you see a right triangle, interpret the text as a comment..............iangle, understand that the text is about a memory. as a summary.
The Right Triangleeeeeeeeeee
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SIGNS FOR SHAPING TEXT: INDEX
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Exercise for
Shaping Text
CPP - Tonfoni (1989-1994)
Credits
CREDITS
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About the Authors
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v. 2.5 UK
The author of the CPP
methodology can be reached to the following address:
aziella Tonfoni
Via Palestro, 13 40123 Bologna, Italy
tel. and fax. +39-51-581246
e author of the HyperCPP
application is Paolo Tosolini. He can be reached to the address:
via Bembo, 5 34015 Muggia (TS), Italy
tel. +39-40-275030 fax. +39-40-311850
CPBackBorder
INDEX
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Special thanks to :
Prof. Marco Somalvico, Laura Turbinati, Laura Vignoletti, Roberta Predieri, Paolo Pogliana, Fabio Omenigrandi, Giorgio Rabbolini, Lia Leonardi, Valerio Saggini.
Graziella Tonfoni
Via Palestro, 13 40123 Bologna - Italy
tel. and fax. +39-51-581246
Via Palestro, 13 40123 Bologna, Italy
tel. and fax. +39-51-581246
e author of the HyperCPP
application is Paolo Tosolini. He can be reached to the address:
via Bembo, 5 34015 Muggia (TS), Italy
tel. +39-40-275030 fax. +39-40-311850
Paolo Tosolini
Via Bembo, 5 34015 Muggia (TS) - Italy
tel. +39-40-275030
fax. +39-40-311850
email: tosolini@psicosun.univ.trieste.itt
The author of the HyperCPP
application can be reached to the address:
Paolo Tosolini
via Bembo, 5 34015 Muggia (TS), Italy
tel. +39-40-275030 fax. +39-40-311850
email: tosolini@psicosun.univ.trieste.it
is Paolo Tosolini. He can be reached to the address:
via Bembo, 5 34015 Muggia (TS), Italy
tel. +39-40-275030 fax. +39-40-311850
SignsExercise2of13
Step 2 of 13
Write a brief summary of the text within the smaller square.
The summary is just a short version of the main facts and events that are important and relevant in understanding the text.
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SignsExercise3of13
Step 3 of 13
This is how your text with its summary looks now. You put the two pieces togheter, and once they are togheter, you immediately know that the larger piece is the text and the smaller one is the summary.
The summary in the illustration is on the top, but it could also be on the bottom.
Where you place it depends on how you want to the reader to navigate through the textual shapes...fhfhg
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SignsExercise7of13
Step 7 of 13
Your text with the summary, comment, and the idea looks like this now.
The configuration of the textual structure stays the same, but now the semicircle with a one-word concept appears on the right side of the text.
The text stays in the middle since it's the most important.
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SignsExercise9of13
Step 9 of 13
Your text with the summary and both comments - but without the concept - looks like this.
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TURN-TAKING SYMBOLS
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SignsExercise10of13
Step 10 of 13
Think about other analogous stories and write them in frames.
Now order them one after the other on the right side of the text.
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SignsExercise11of13
Step 11 of 13
Now think about the whole text or any part of the text that reminds you of your own experiences.
Write all of these memory stories in triangles, and order them one after the other below the text.
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SignsExercise12of13
Step 12 of 13
Open up your text and add alternative things that you can foresee. These could be different events or new developments. Take away the summary and draw on your text two arc lines that meet in the center of the opposite side of the square.
Now open up alternative text spaces and add the alternative things you thought of. If you want readers to supply their own alternatives, leave one or both of the text spaces empty.....
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VisualDescribe
Describe comes from the Latin word describo, which means to write about or write around.
You can write a description in a free, unconstrained manner. You can provide as much or as little information as you choose. You can order the information in a description as you want - you don't need to put it in a logical or chronological order.
The symbol for describe is a spiral, and its size may be small or large, depending on how much information you choose to present.
See also Define...
HWGotoDefine
"VisualDefine"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualDefine
Describe
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INDEX
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VisualDefine
Define comes from the Latin word definio, which means to put limits on. Originally define meant to mark off the boundaries of a territory or parcel of property.
A definition is similar to a description, except that instead of being open and unconstrained, it's restricted to the selection of relevant information.
This symbol conveys the idea of putting limits on what you are defining ( represented by the small circle in the center of the symbol ).
See also Describe.
HWGotoDescribe
"VisualDescribe"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualDescribe
Define
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VisualAnalyze
Analyze comes from the Greek word analyein, which means to dissolve, loosen or unfasten.
As the arrow shows, you expand from a small, tight central kernel of information outward.
You inform analytically as you break apart, unloosen, and unfasten a kernel of information.
You usually use this symbol in combination with the others.
See also Inform and Synthesize..ze.nd
HWGotoInform
"VisualInform"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualInform
HWGotoSynthesize
"VisualSynthesize"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualSynthesize
Analyze
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SignsExercise7of13
SignsExercise9of13
Analisi
Sintesi
Overview
SignsSquareWithinSquare
VisualRegress
SignsGroupedSemiCircles
VisualExpress
TTakingInsertion1of3
VisualInform
TTakingMajorScale
TURN-TAKING SYMBOLS
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Esprimere
Riassunto
SimboliAlternanza_0
RitmoLargo
SignsIndex
SignsTriangle
Anytime you want to write a text that is related to a memory, which is a personal experience of an episode or a fact triggered by reading of some initial text, use a
and vice versa, anytime you see a triangle, understand that the text is about a memory. as a summary.
The Triangle
within Square
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CPNextBorder
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CPBackBorder
INDEXXXNDEX
CPLastIndexBorder
INDEX
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SignsSquareWithinSquare
Anytime you want to write a summary, which means a reduced version of a story that includes only those events you consider relevant in understanding the story, use a
and vice versa, anytime you see something like this, interpret the text as a summary....g as a summary.
The Square
within Square
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CPNextBorder
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CPBackBorder
INDEXXXNDEX
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INDEX
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SignsSemicircle
Anytime you want to write about an idea or a particular concept triggered by reading some initial text, use a
An idea or a particular concept is abstract consideration that you have identified in some text. Anytime you see a semicircle, interpret the text as a particular concept...............
The Semicircleithin Square
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SignsFrame
Anytime you want to write a text analogous to another text, then frame it like this
To be analogous, a text must express the same concept or series of concepts as the specific narrative text it references. Anytime you find a framed text, understand it to be analogous to the text that precedes it.....................................
The Frame Triangleeeeeeeeeee
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INDEX
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SignsGroupedSemiCircles
Anytime you want to write additional ideas or concepts that emerge from the reading of a text, use a semicircle for each one and group them togheter like this
and vice versa, anytime you see a group of semicircles, interpret it as concepts extracted from the text.t, understand it to be analogous to the text that precedes it. be analogous to the text that precedes it.
Grouped Semicircles
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SignsCircle
Anytime you want to write a unique global idea or a general concept that emerges from the text, use a
A global idea or general concept is the one - of all those that you have identified - that is the most important or significant. Anytime you see a full circle, interpret it as a general concept extracted from the text................................t that precedes it.
The Circle
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SignsInscribedArcs
If you want to add an alternative development to a story you have written or if you want the reader to add a new alternative to it, draw two arcs like this
The two inscribe arcs can be a sign for turn-taking.
You can either signal that you will be writing more or that you want the reader take a turn and write more.erpret it as a general concept extracted from the text.
The Inscribed
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TTakingMajorScale
This symbol signals readers at the point of its appearance in text that what follows should be read exactly as written.
When you include this symbol to mark off a portion of text, you are telling your readers to interpret that text as it stands. You don't want readers to change the text in any way.
See also Minor Scale..
HWGotoTTMinor
"TTakingMinorScale"
buttonUp
buttonUp
TTakingMinorScale
Major
Scale
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THE VISUAL SYMBOLS
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SignsExercise12of13
VisualAnalyze
Puntualizzare
Riformulare
Piu'Idee
Start
VisualPointOut
Point Out means to take a point ( specific event or fact ) out of a narrative, focus on it, and add more information about it.
When you point out something, it doesn't mean that the other chain of events in the narration are irrelevant. It just means that you are turning your attention for a while to one specific thing and amplifying it.
This symbol represents the specific point in a narrative that is selected from the chain of facts and events and then expanded.
See also Narrate.
HWGotoNarrate
"VisualNarrate"
buttonUp
buttonUp
VisualNarrate
Point Out
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SignsBackground
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SignsIndex
This chapter challenges you to consider text as having a visual, physical attribute of shape that explicitly conveys the intention of text to readers.
When you write text with a shape, the shape of the text itself is clear evidence of your communicative intention, and your readers will know it immediately when they see how you have "shaped up" the text. Discover these signs by clicking on their name :
Grouped Semicircles
Square within Square Circle
Triangle Inscribed Arcs
Semicircle
Right Triangle
Frame Exercise for Shaping Texttt
SIGNS FOR SHAPING TEXT: INDEX
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3DFrame
Square Grouped Semicircles
Square within Square Circle
Triangle Inscribed Arcs
Semicircle Opened Text Space
Right Triangle
Frame Exercise for Shaping Textshape of the text itself is clear evidence of your communicative intention, and your readers will know it immediately when they see how you have "shaped up" the text. Discover the shapes by clicking on their name :
Square Grouped Semicircles
Square within Square Circle
Triangle Inscribed Arcs
Semicircle
Right Triangle
Frame Exercise for Shaping Texttt
HWGotoSquare
"SignsSquare"
buttonUp
buttonUp
SignsSquare
HWGotoGroupedSemicircles
"SignsGroupedSemicircles"
buttonUp
buttonUp
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CPP - Tonfoni (1989-1994)
Start
Graziella Tonfoni
partment of Applied Linguistic
University of Bologna, Italy
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an hypertext introduction to the
Communicative Positioning Program
methodology
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MAIN INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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REFERENCES AND CPP
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THE CPP
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Marvin Minsky
Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Marvin Minsky
Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Marvin Minsky
Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Marvin Minsky
Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Marvin Minsky
Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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In addition to symbols that identify the style of text, there are also five symbols that you can place within text to facilitate dialog between you and the readers of text you write. These symbols, like musical notation, help readers play the text the way you want them to. They explicitly tell readers how you want them to interpret what you have written, and when it is their turn to get into the text and modify it.
These turn-taking symbols always appear in text in pairs. If you use them, make sure that the first symbol of the pair marks the beginning of a portion of text, while the second marks its end. Discover the turn-taking symbols by clicking on their names.
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TURN-TAKING SYMBOLS INDEX
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References
Discover the comments of these eminent scientists about the CPP :
Prof. Marvin Minsky , Prof. Roger Schank , Prof. Paolo Valesio .
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REFERENCES and BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Sistemi cognitivi complessi : Intelligenza artificiale e modelli di organizzazione della conoscenza. Treviso, Italy: Pagus, 1991
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Scrittura multimediale : Tecniche di progettazione e design testuale. Treviso: Pagus, 1991
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Artificial Intelligence and Modeling of Knowledge Organization). Treviso: Pagus, 1991
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La Comunicazione aziendale come arte visiva : Treviso: Pagus, 1991
Artificial Intelligence and Modeling of Knowledge Organization). Treviso: Pagus, 1991
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Partitura, Solfeggio, Movimento : Note di esecuzione di scrittura. Treviso: Pagus, 1991
Artificial Intelligence and Modeling of Knowledge Organization). Treviso: Pagus, 1991
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Didattica del testo : Teramo: Lisciani e Giunti, 1991
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Artificial Intelligence and Modeling of Knowledge Organization). Treviso: Pagus, 1991
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La lettura strategica : Tecniche cognitive per leggere di piu' e meglio. (with Giuseppe Tassi). Mondadori Informatica, 1990
mo: Lisciani e Giunti, 1991
ling of Knowledge Organization). Treviso: Pagus, 1991
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Grammar and punctuation show the local structure of a text, but do not clearly indicate the intended rhetorical function of each part, and amateur story tellers often fail in that domain. Tonfoni's system of explicit function symbols could help both language theorists and working writers.
Marvin Minsky
Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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This idea, when implemented on a computer, would help to create new writing methods that would help to bring about the computer revolution.
Roger Schank
Director of the Institute for
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I think that the whole set of descriptive strategies and techniques that Tonfoni has developed are very helpful in making explicit, both for teaching and describing, all those different ways a text can be conceived of and written ( I mean both literary texts and non-literary ones ).
Paolo Valesio
Director of the Department
of Italian Studies,
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Marvin Minsky
Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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English title: Partition, Solfeggio, Movement:
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Marvin Minsky
Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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English title: Didactics of Text.
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Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Notes on the Execution of Writing.on of Writing.nization.nrical function of each part, and amateur story tellers often fail in that domain. Tonfoni's system of explicit function symbols could help both language theorists and working writers.
Marvin Minsky
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Get this free software with the enclosed coupon Notes on the Execution of Writing.on of Writing.nization.nrical function of each part, and amateur story tellers often fail in that domain. Tonfoni's system of explicit function symbols could help both language theorists and working writers.
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Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Overview
ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF CPP
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Prof. Graziella Tonfoni is the author of the Communicative Positioning Program
( CPP ) methodology and the Director of the CPP Project at the University of Bologna, Italy, where she also teaches in the Linguistics Department.
She is internationally known for her contributions to textual theory, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, communications, training, and multimedia education.
Prof. Tonfoni has been visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Bolt Beranek and Newman. In addition, she has given seminars and lectures at the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford Research Institute, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Institute for the Learning Science at Northwestern University, and other institutions. She has also consulted for Arthur Andersen.
Prof. Tonfoni was given an award as the Outstanding Woman in Research in Rome in 1984.
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The CPP
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Marvin Minsky
Donner Professor of Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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This chapter discusses visual symbols that you can use to enhance the communication and cooperation between you and the readers of text you write.
Visual symbols are like road signs that tell a driver what lies ahead, or the notation that directs a musician how to play a musical score. You place them beside or within text.
Discover the visual symbols by clicking on their names.
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THE VISUAL SYMBOLS
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Narrate comes from the Latin word narro, which means to talk about facts and events in a given order, to tell a story. Narrating is concerned with writing about a set of facts and events in a logical or chronological order.
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