Invention Notes 9-13

Invention Key Terms

· Agency (4)

· Recursive (4)

· Discovery (4)

· Originality (4)

· Exigence (3)

· Intertextuality (2)

· Knowledge (2)

· Process

· Collaboration

· (Re) generation

· Genre

· Goal

· Revision

· Genius

· Kairos

· Relocation

· Displacement

· Context

Tensions in notion of Invention

(Perhaps venn diagrams are more helpful for avoiding dichotomies?)

· Kairos

· Agency of Rhetor

· Discovery/Creation/Invention/Creativity/Originality/(Re)envision

o Discovery and Creation as mutually exclusive? or overlapping?

o “New” vs. already known (constructing vs. finding)

o “New” to all or “new” to individual rhetor

o Form vs. Content (scientific knowledge vs rhetorical style) (syllogistic vs empirical knowledge)

o Hermenutics vs. Heuristic (involvement of texts)

o Authorization/Who makes these distinctions? (gatekeepers/watch dogs)

§ Scholars (Academy) vs. Masses (Urban Dictionary/Wikipedia)

· Contexts involved:

o Individual

o Historical

Why do we need to know this?

Invention manifests itself in:

· Our scholarship

· Our classrooms pedagogies and students

· Our worldviews