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Dark Blog [Glossary of blogging terms]

A non-public blog (e.g. behind a firewall)

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Data [Glossary of rhetorical terms]

Stephen Toulmin. Initial evidence supporting a claim.

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Deconstruction [Glossary of rhetorical terms]

Analyzing communication artifacts by scrutinizing their meanings and related assumptions, with the goal of determining the social and systemic connotations behind their structure.

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Deduction [Glossary of rhetorical terms]

Moving from an overall hypothesis to infer something specific about that hypothesis.

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Deductive teaching [Glossary of language teaching terms and ideas]

Also known as deduction, from the verb “to deduce”; a teaching technique in which the teacher presents language rules and the students then practice those rules in activities. Deductive teaching is usually based on grammar-based methodology and proceeds from generalizations about the language to specifics. (See “Inductive teaching”.)

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Delayed copying [Glossary of language teaching terms and ideas]

The teacher writes a short familiar sentence on the board, gives students time to look at it, erases it, and then they see if they can write it.

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Delectare [Glossary of rhetorical terms]

To delight; viewed by Cicero as one of the three goals of rhetoric.

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Delivery [Glossary of rhetorical terms]

Canon #5 in Cicero's list of rhetorical canons; traditionally linked to oral rhetoric, refers to how a speech is given (including tone of voice and nonverbal gestures, among others).

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Demos [Glossary of rhetorical terms]

The population of an ancient Greek state, considered a political entity; population; the common people.

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Descriptive grammar [Glossary of language teaching terms and ideas]

Grammar that is described in terms of what people actually say or write, rather than what grammar books say tho grammar of the language should be. See “prescriptive grammar”.

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