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1230:"What? Why? What of it?" is a plan of study of alliterative methods for the teacher emphasized by Professor W.C. Wilkinson not as original with himself but as of venerable authority. "It is, in fact," he says, "an almost immemorial orator's analysis. First the facts, next the proof of the facts, then the consequences of the facts. This analysis has often been expanded into one known as "The Five Ws": "When? Where? Who? What? Why?" Hereby attention is called, in the study of any lesson: to the date of its incidents; to their place or locality; to the person speaking or spoken to, or to the persons introduced, in the narrative; to the incidents or statements of the text; and, finally, to the applications and uses of the lesson teachings. 661: 62: 612: 849:
For Aristotle, the elements are used to distinguish voluntary or involuntary action, a crucial distinction for him. These elements of circumstances are used by Aristotle as a framework to describe and evaluate moral action in terms of What was or should be done, Who did it, How it was done, Where it
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as well as a further set of questions about the elements of circumstance. Primarily, he asks "Whether a circumstance is an accident of a human act" (Article 1), "Whether Theologians should take note of the circumstances of human acts?" (Article 2), "Whether the circumstances are properly set forth
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had much earlier acknowledged Aristotle as the originator of the elements of circumstances, providing a detailed commentary on Aristotle's system in his "Treatise on human acts" and specifically in part one of two Q7 "Of the Circumstances of Human Acts". Aquinas examines the concept of Aristotle's
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popularized the "Three Ws" – What? Why? What of it? – as a method of Bible study in the 1880s, although he did not claim originality. This eventually became the "Five Ws", but the application was rather different from that in journalism:
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In modern times, journalism students are still taught that these are the fundamental six questions of newswriting. Reporters also use the "5 Ws" to guide research and interviews and to raise important ethical questions, such as
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In other words, no hypothetical question, or question involving particular persons and actions, can arise without reference to these circumstances, and no demonstration of such a question can be made without using
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Starting in the 2000s, the Five Ws were sometimes misattributed to Rudyard Kipling (referred to as "The Kipling Method"), especially in the management and quality literature, and contrasted with the
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It is necessary for students of virtue to differentiate between the Voluntary and Involuntary; such a distinction should even prove useful to the lawmaker for assigning honors and punishments.
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I mean, for instance (a particular circumstance or movement or action), How could we advise the Athenians whether they should go to war or not, if we did not know their strength (
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to ensure that the "lead" or "lede" contains all the essential points of a story. As far back as 1913, reporters were taught that the lead/lede should answer these questions:
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By 1917, the "Five Ws" were being taught in high-school journalism classes, and by 1940, the tendency of journalists to address all of the "Five Ws" within the
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Even though the classical origin of these questions as situated in ethics had long been lost, they have been a standard way of formulating or analyzing
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All of you know about – and I hope all of you admit the fallacy of – the doctrine of the five Ws in the first sentence of the newspaper story.
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In any particular act or situation, one needs to interrogate these questions in order to determine the actual circumstances of the action.
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Essentially, these elements of circumstances provide a theoretical framework that can be used to particularize, explain or predict
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explained Cicero's application of the elements of circumstances by putting them into correspondence with Hermagoras's questions:
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to accuse or defend. It is this application of the elements of circumstances that was emphasised by latter rhetoricians.
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quis=persona; quid=factum; cur=causa; ubi=locus; quando=tempus; quemadmodum = modus; quib/adminiculis=facultas
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Robertson, D.W. Jr (1946). "A Note on the Classical Origin of "Circumstances" in the Medieval Confessional".
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Robertson, D.W. (1946). "A Note on the Classical Origin of ' Circumstances ' in the Medieval Confessional".
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Sloan, M.C. (2010). "Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as the Original Locus for the Septem Circumstantiae".
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Behind Every Good Decision: How Anyone Can Use Business Analytics to Turn Data Into Profitable Insight
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Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages: Academic Traditions and Vernacular Texts
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Therefore it is not a pointless endeavor to divide these circumstances by kind and number; (1) the
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According to Inoslav Bešker, Professor of Philology at the University of Split in Croatia, the
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happened, and most importantly for what reason (Why), and so on for all the other elements:
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The poem compares Kipling's own day-to-day situation as a writer/journalist, with that of
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are rooted in the seven questions used in ancient Greece to communicate stories clearly:
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lessons (ages 7–14). In data analytics, the Five Ws are used in the first stage of the
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The old-fashioned lead of the five Ws and the H, crystallized largely by Pulitzer's "
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Newspaper Writing in High Schools, Containing an Outline for the Use of Teachers
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For Aristotle, ignorance of any of these elements can imply involuntary action:
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given set of circumstances of action. Hermagoras went so far as to claim that
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Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor (1913). "IV. Structure and Style in News Stories".
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Thus, with ignorance as a possibility concerning all these things, that is,
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to identify the business problem and its context in an analytics request.
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Vollgraff, W. (1948). "Observations sur le sixieme discours d'Antiphon".
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Checklist for a journalist's lead/lede: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
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Griffin, Philip F. (1949). "The Correlation of English and Journalism".
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of an article was being characterized as old-fashioned and fallacious:
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e.g. in E. Kim and S. Helal, "Revisiting Human Activity Networks", in
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Quid, ubi, quare, quantum, conditio, quomodo, quando: adiuncto quoties
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There are many other names for this checklist. Some common ones are:
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In the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland), the Five Ws are used in
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Citations below taken from Robertson and not independently checked.
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Sensor Systems and Software: Second International ICST Conference
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For more general discussion of the theory of circumstances, see
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Quis, quid, quando, ubi, cur, quem ad modum, quibus adminiculis
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since antiquity. The rhetor Hermagoras of Temnos, as quoted in
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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The question form was taken up again in the 12th century by
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Mott, Frank Luther (1942). "Trends in Newspaper Content".
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The method of questions was also used for the systematic
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is in fact the source of the elements of circumstance or
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American government poster created during WWII featuring
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Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
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Indo-European vocabulary § Pronouns and particles
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Wooten, George Alexander Kennedy, eds., 1076:, but did not put them in the form of questions. 1392: – Early influential model of communication 1634:Jain, Piyanka; Sharma, Puneet (November 2014). 1279: 1270: 1250: 1234:The "Five Ws" (and one H) were memorialized by 1211: 1037:Aquinas also refers to the elements as used by 821:did it, by what aids or instruments he did it ( 1216:Why, how, and when, doe many things disclose. 1544:"Digging deeper into the 5 W's of journalism" 1116:(Who, what, why, how, where, when, with what) 919:), whether it was naval or military or both ( 641: 8: 1514:"The 5 W's (and How) of writing for the web" 971:This aspect is encapsulated by Aristotle in 954:are derived from these seven circumstances: 1371: – Prose style used for news reporting 1352: 1317: 1188: 1178: 1168: 1158: 1148: 1107: 1070: 1054: 1042: 1024: 1003: 804: 1221:In the United States in the 19th century, 866:) or (4) in which time something happens ( 648: 634: 49: 1380: – Iterative interrogative technique 1324:. This is not a coincidence, as they are 1315:, most also begin with the same letters, 2009:; Hermagoras's original does not survive 802:voluntary and involuntary action in his 715:- Asking about the way something is done 2337:The Effective Change Manager's Handbook 1974: 1972: 1970: 1968: 1966: 1964: 1669:from the original on September 25, 2020 1425: 1096:also lists circumstances as questions. 878:), such as saving a life, and (7) the ( 550: 502: 431: 240: 144: 52: 2120:Richard N. Soulen, R. 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American Management Association. 1615:from the original on March 23, 2011 935:), what wars, too they have waged ( 783:, in 2010, it was established that 1548:International Journalists' Network 927:), what their revenues amount to ( 691:- Asking about an object or action 25: 2138:Locus, p. 107; Hartmut Schröder, 1661:Bešker, Inoslav (March 2, 2009). 1467:"How to Use the 5 "W"s (And 1 H)" 1390:Lasswell's model of communication 817:For in acts we must take note of 685:- Asking about a person or animal 2288:The Essential Management Toolbox 2029:Concilium Trevirense Provinciale 709:- Asking about a reason or cause 610: 60: 2375:Interrogative words and phrases 2123:Handbook of Biblical Criticism 1405:Means, motive, and opportunity 1: 2170:, Philadelphia, 1888, p. 120. 1436:Newspaper Writing and Editing 1384:Inverted pyramid (journalism) 1307:begin with the same letters, 1253:I keep six honest serving-men 874:), (6) for the sake of what ( 599:Pundit / commentator 1609:Times Educational Supplement 1439:. 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