Listing
In composition, the listing is a tool in which the writer creates a list of words, phrases, images, and ideas. This list can be ordered or unordered. Listing can help defeat writer's block and give rise to a topic's discovery, concentration, and growth. In creating a list, states Ronald T. Kellogg, “particular relations to preceding or following ideas may or may not be noted. In addition, the sequence in which the ideas are put down in the list can reflect the sequence needed for the text” [ThoughtCo].
Writers use the listing to emphasize a particular point, show their awareness, or offer an assortment of ideas in the hope that the reader knows one or some of them [English Language Features].
When we list, we can exemplify or we can enumerate. By exemplifying, we provide an instance, or several instances, of a particular phenomenon; by enumerating, we list all such instances [Language in Conflict].
⠀ Listing. Language in Conflict. Retrieved from: https://languageinconflict.org/the-world-through-language/listing.html.
⠀ Listing. ThoughtCo. Retrieved from: https://www.thoughtco.com/listing-composition-term-1691131
⠀ What is Listing? English Language Features. Retrieved from: http://languagefeatures.weebly.com/listing.html.