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  2. Knowledge by acquaintance - Wikipedia

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    Whereas knowledge by description is something like ordinary propositional knowledge (e.g. "I know that snow is white"), knowledge by acquaintance is familiarity with a person, place, or thing, typically obtained through perceptual experience (e.g. "I know Sam", "I know the city of Bogotá", or "I know Russell's Problems of Philosophy"). [1]

  3. Literature review - Wikipedia

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    Either way, a literature review provides the researcher/author and the audiences with general information of an existing knowledge of a particular topic. A good literature review has a proper research question, a proper theoretical framework, and/or a chosen research methodology. It serves to situate the current study within the body of the ...

  4. Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    A summary is not meant to reproduce the experience of reading or watching the work. In fact, readers might be here because they didn't understand the original. Just repeating what they have already seen or read is unlikely to help them. Do not attempt to re-create the emotional impact of the work through the plot summary.

  5. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities - Wikipedia

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    The Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) framework, is a series of narrative statements that, along with résumés, determines who the best applicants are when several candidates qualify for a job. The knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) necessary for the successful performance of a position are contained on each job vacancy announcement ...

  6. Cognitive poetics - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, observing metaphors in this manner helps uncover the contextual background of the writer in question. In cognitive poetics, context is an essential notion for understanding literature. One example of cognitive poetics using these assumptions is in the literary device of humour. Through the combination of metaphors, and the ...

  7. Definitions of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Definitions of knowledge aim to identify the essential features of knowledge. Closely related terms are conception of knowledge, theory of knowledge, and analysis of knowledge. Some general features of knowledge are widely accepted among philosophers, for example, that it involves cognitive success and epistemic contact with reality.

  8. Cultural literacy - Wikipedia

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    Cultural literacy is a term coined by American educator and literary critic E. D. Hirsch, referring to the ability to understand and participate fluently in a given culture. Cultural literacy is an analogy to literacy proper (the ability to read and write letters).

  9. The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

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    Several obituaries of Kermode took the same title, including those that appeared in The Daily Telegraph [7] and the journal Common Knowledge. [8] The book appears on numerous university reading lists and is still regularly commented upon at academic conferences and in other books on literature. [9] [10] [11]