Getting Started with the Confection

Key to getting a fast start on this assignment is deciding on what Tufte calls "an argument, a multifaceted definition, a set of detailed choices, the cause-and-effect relations in a process or story" to serve as your subject. We will collect some examples of concepts in the forum, "Confection Concepts"

Message 1

In a reply to the Moodle forum "Confection Concepts"--click the "Moodle" link above--provide

the name of two "conceptual" ideas or narratives and
a clickable URL to a page on the web about each.

The concept can be drawn from physical science, social science, popular motivational lit, business studies, economics, cultural theory, history, academic or popular criticism (writing about movies, books, art, sports, or music), and so on. The concept might appear in a book, article, textbook, magazine, or online.

An example of a concept is Greg Ulmer's definition of a "manifesto."

Message 2

In a reply to someone else's posting in "Confection Concepts"--analyze and elaborate their concept by writing:

a list of the component parts of the idea (how you might break it down)
a word or phrase describing how the parts dynamically relate

(for example, "steps in a process of development," "a set of branching choices over time," "a set of options for a single choice," "an 'anatomy' of types, features, or characteristics" "the mutual interdependence of two complex systems," "a set of positions in a debate or controversy," etc.).
a sentence drawing an analogy or metaphor that suggests that dynamic of parts: that is, that suggests the relationship of parts of the abstract idea as a road, a weather system, a mansion, a dramatic imaginative scene or tableau, etc.