The strategies to resolve these problems are called "heuristics," discovery procedures that "are the heart of problem solving" (36). Significantly, these heuristics are not themselves rational, are not linear and predictable-"they do not come with a guarantee" (37). They appear normally as unconscious, intuitive processes that problem solvers use without realizing it, but even when formulated for conscious application they are never foolproof. Heuristics are only as good or bad as the person using them, so that problem solving is finally the act of an individual performing in isolation, solitary and alone (see Brodkey)........The community addressed enters the process only after problems are analyzed and solved, at which time the concern is "adapting your writing to the needs of the reader."
This quote is saying that in order to be a writer, you must know how to be a problem solver as well. You might need to have backup solutions if your first solution doesn't work, but you must have some sort of problem solving ability. This ties into how writing classrooms are set up because even when people suggest ideas to you in a workshop, you are still the problem solver, not them. Though they may seem like problem solvers because they are suggesting new and different ideas you can try, you are the one who must figure out how to incorporate their ideas into your story.
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Social-epistemic rhetoric is rhetoric that studies how knowledge and language came into existence. What social groups produced and provided certain pieces of knowledge? How does the same piece of knowledge differ in one culture versus another? How do social groups go about enacting some sort of change in how we view a certain piece of knowledge?
One challenge about defining this concept was that there was so much information about it, so I had to figure out a way to condense it all.
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