A choice choosing of words from English Educators

Kathaleen White (Katie) February 26, 2009
English 102-0048 (PoWeR) Glossary of English Educators
Inst: Melissa Keith

1. Linguistics: Linguistics is NOT the ability to speak several languages. Rather it is the study of languages. How they are put together, dialects, hierarchical structure of words and their uses. You can speak 14 languages and still not be a linguist. However, if you can break down language and explain it scientifically—you are a linguist.
2. Technical Writer: Do not write computer lingo. They are geared toward helping employers explain, describe, and enhance their products. They are the writers that work on those directions that came with the new digital converter box you bought last week. They write new employee hand books, dockets deciphering job duties, and vast other options.
3. Pedagogy: Is the art of sharing knowledge through instructional training.
4. Person: This is the “voice” a writer uses when writing. When a writer uses, “I” statements they are said to be writing in “First Person.”
5. Voice: Writers do not have a film crew to paint the back drop for the script. Everything has to flow from the ink to the eye sockets. The “voice” is the personality a writer gives to characters.
6. Revise: Reworking a piece of writing beyond editing for grammatical or technical errors. It is delving deeply into a written work and pulling out the gems to make it shine.
7. DWA: This is a test the State of Idaho uses to assess where students are as writers. It is administered in specific years throughout the K-12 education. The scores are used much like the ISAT’s or SAT’s.
8. Critical: Generally this term is used when a writer reads another author’s work and comments upon it. It is not a negative word in this profession. It indicates that time, thought, and care went into the analysis of the work.
9. Dimension: When a written work has “dimension” it is full of rich adjectives and engages the reader beautifully.
10. Composition: Any form of writing; essay, poem, story...