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Interpretive Equation

Metaphor for understanding the foundation elements of

interpretation

(KR+KA) x AT = IO

KR = Knowledge of Resource

KA = Knowledge of Audience

AT = Appropriate Technique

IO = Interpretive Opportunity

KNOWLEDGE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE

RESOURCE AUDIENCE

Information about the resource: Recognition and familiarity with their

Honest, accurate, current backgrounds

Past and present issues or trend Acknowledgment and sensitivity to

Current trending or potential stories their needs

Intangibles and universal concepts Meanings they may associate with the

Multiple perspective and values resource

APPROPRIATE INTERPRETIVE

TECHNIQUE OPPORTUNITY

An opportunity for the audience to

Involve and engage the audience
form their own intellectual and

(passively or actively)
emotional connection to the meanings

Accessible to resource
and significance resource
Facilitate opportunities for
The interpreter creates opportunity,

intellectual and emotional
the audience makes the connection

connection

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