{"id":3569,"date":"2022-01-27T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2022-01-03T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:20:17","slug":"organizing-the-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/01\/organizing-the-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing the Material"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Almost anyone can gather the material. Organizing it or creating a story from it, however, appears to be a rare yet valuable skill.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have lots of information. Go to Wikipedia. Download PDFs of the pages. Concatenate the pages. There it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go to a search engine. Find a dozen hits. Copy and paste. There it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simple. Right? Everyone will read it. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone needs to arrange or organize the material into a sequence that leads the reader somewhere. Some call that a &#8220;story.&#8221; Some call that a &#8220;flow.&#8221; Whatever we call it, we know it when we see it because it moves us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some persons do this well. Most others don&#8217;t. Natural-born talent? Maybe for 1% of us. The rest of us have to try hard(er). Let&#8217;s get to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Almost anyone can gather the material. Organizing it or creating a story from it, however, appears to be a rare yet valuable skill. We have lots of information. Go to Wikipedia. Download PDFs of the pages. Concatenate the pages. There it is. Go to a search engine. Find a dozen hits. Copy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,32,435,12,310,325,60,346,102,50,74],"tags":[225,154,438,135,311,326,180,347,217,172,194],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-communication","category-context","category-design","category-information","category-purpose","category-reframe","category-stories","category-teaching","category-thinking","category-wikipedia","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-context","tag-design","tag-information","tag-purpose","tag-reframe","tag-stories","tag-teaching","tag-thinking","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}