Five Ws, the Glossary
The Five Ws is a checklist used in journalism to ensure that the first paragraph (the "lead") contains all the essential points of a story.[1]
Table of Contents
46 relations: Alexander de Stavenby, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Boethius, Cicero, Cluedo, Cognate, De Inventione, Exegesis, Five whys, Fourth Council of the Lateran, Gaius Julius Victor, Gaius Marius Victorinus, Hermagoras of Temnos, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hypothesis, Interrogative word, Inventio, John of Salisbury, Journalism, Just So Stories, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Latin, Lead paragraph, New Journalism, Nicomachean Ethics, Penance, Peter Quinel, Politics (Aristotle), Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Indo-European language, Pseudo-Augustine, Queen Victoria, Quintilian, Rhetoric (Aristotle), Rhetorical question, Robert de Sorbon, Rudyard Kipling, Sin, Summa Theologica, TES (magazine), Thierry of Chartres, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Wilson (rhetorician), William Cleaver Wilkinson.
- Interrogative words and phrases
- Problem solving methods
Alexander de Stavenby
Alexander de Stavenby (or Alexander of Stainsby; died 26 December 1238) was a medieval Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
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Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known simply as Boethius (Latin: Boetius; 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages.
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.
Cluedo
Cluedo, known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players (depending on editions) that was devised in 1943 by British board game designer Anthony E. Pratt.
Cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.
De Inventione
De Inventione is a handbook for orators that Cicero composed when he was still a young man.
Exegesis
Exegesis (from the Greek ἐξήγησις, from ἐξηγεῖσθαι, "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text.
Five whys
Five whys (or 5 whys) is an iterative interrogative technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. Five Ws and Five whys are problem solving methods.
Fourth Council of the Lateran
The Fourth Council of the Lateran or Lateran IV was convoked by Pope Innocent III in April 1213 and opened at the Lateran Palace in Rome on 11 November 1215.
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Gaius Julius Victor
Gaius Julius Victor (4th century AD) was a Roman writer of rhetoric, possibly of Gaulish origin.
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Gaius Marius Victorinus
Gaius Marius Victorinus (also known as Victorinus Afer; fl. 4th century) was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher.
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Hermagoras of Temnos
Hermagoras of Temnos (Ἑρμαγόρας Τήμνου, fl. 1st century BC) was an Ancient Greek rhetorician of the Rhodian school and teacher of rhetoric in Rome, where the Suda states he died at an advanced age.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.
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Hypothesis
A hypothesis (hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
Interrogative word
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how. Five Ws and interrogative word are interrogative words and phrases.
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Inventio
Inventio, one of the five canons of rhetoric, is the method used for the discovery of arguments in Western rhetoric and comes from the Latin word, meaning "invention" or "discovery".
John of Salisbury
John of Salisbury (late 1110s – 25 October 1180), who described himself as Johannes Parvus ("John the Little"), was an English author, philosopher, educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres.
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Journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy.
Just So Stories
Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling.
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Key Stage 2
Key Stage 2 is the legal term for the four years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6, when the pupils are aged between 7 and 11 years.
Key Stage 3
Key Stage 3 (commonly abbreviated as KS3) is the legal term for the three years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9, when pupils are aged between 11 and 14.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Lead paragraph
A lead paragraph (sometimes shortened to lead; in the United States sometimes spelled lede) is the opening paragraph of an article, book chapter, or other written work that summarizes its main ideas.
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New Journalism
New Journalism is a style of news writing and journalism, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, that uses literary techniques unconventional at the time.
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Nicomachean Ethics
The Nicomachean Ethics (Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια) is among Aristotle's best-known works on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim.
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Penance
Penance is any act or a set of actions done out of repentance for sins committed, as well as an alternate name for the Catholic, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession.
Peter Quinel
Peter Quinel was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.
Politics (Aristotle)
Politics (Πολιτικά, Politiká) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher.
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Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Pseudo-Augustine
Pseudo-Augustine is the name given by scholars to the authors, collectively, of works falsely attributed to Augustine of Hippo.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.
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Quintilian
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35 – 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.
Rhetoric (Aristotle)
Aristotle's Rhetoric (Rhētorikḗ; Ars Rhetorica) is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from.
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Rhetorical question
A rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information.
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Robert de Sorbon
Robert de Sorbon (9 October 1201 – 15 August 1274) was a French theologian, the chaplain of Louis IX of France, and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris.
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.
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Sin
In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law or a law of the deities.
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Summa Theologica
The Summa Theologiae or Summa Theologica, often referred to simply as the Summa, is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church.
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TES (magazine)
Tes, formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement, is a British weekly trade magazine aimed at education professionals.
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Thierry of Chartres
Thierry of Chartres (Theodoricus Chartrensis) or Theodoric the Breton (Theodericus Brito) (died before 1155, probably 1150) was a twelfth-century philosopher working at Chartres and Paris, France.
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas (Aquino; – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.
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Thomas Wilson (rhetorician)
Thomas Wilson (1524–1581), Esquire, LL.D., was an English diplomat and judge who served as a privy councillor and Secretary of State (1577–81) to Queen Elizabeth I. He is remembered especially for his Logique (1551) and The Arte of Rhetorique (1553), which have been called "the first complete works on logic and rhetoric in English".
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William Cleaver Wilkinson
William Cleaver Wilkinson, D.D. (October 19, 1833, in Westford, Vermont – April 25, 1920, in Chicago) was a Baptist preacher, professor of theology, professor of poetry, and literary figure.
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See also
Interrogative words and phrases
- Eh
- Five Ws
- Indeterminate pronoun
- Interrogative
- Interrogative word
- Interrogatives in Esperanto
- Inverted question and exclamation marks
- Question
- Question mark
- Wh-movement
- Who (pronoun)
- Who, whom?
Problem solving methods
- Adaptive reasoning
- Analysis
- Ariadne's thread (logic)
- Attitudinal fix
- Autodidacticism
- Creative problem-solving
- Creativity techniques
- Decision matrix
- Dream incubation
- Eight disciplines problem solving
- Five Ws
- Five whys
- Heuristic
- Heuristics
- Issue tree
- Lateral computing
- Morphological analysis (problem-solving)
- Pareto principle
- Proof by exhaustion
- Rubber duck debugging
- Socratic questioning
- Spider mapping
- Structural fix
- Systematic inventive thinking
- TRIZ
- Technological fix
- Trial and error
- Unified structured inventive thinking
- Why–because analysis
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws
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