diagramming
Sketching visual representations
Diagramming is the act of making a diagram—a visual representation showing relationships, processes, or structures.
In grammar education, sentence diagramming breaks sentences into their component parts, mapping subjects, verbs, and modifiers on branching lines: We spent weeks diagramming sentences in English class.
More broadly, diagramming applies to any systematic visual mapping: She was diagramming the network architecture.
Simplified technical diagram
- flowchartDiagram showing workflow steps
- blueprintDetailed technical drawing
- circuitClosed electrical pathway
- wiringInstalled electrical conductors
CAD · drafting · engineering · architecture · component · assembly · subsystem · interconnect
Hasty informal drawing
- drawCreate with pencil
- illustrateExplain through depiction
- renderCause to become
- depictRepresent through art
trace · delineate · draft · plot · map · graph · chart · outline
schematic
Simplified technical diagram
- flowchartDiagram showing workflow steps
- blueprintDetailed technical drawing
- circuitClosed electrical pathway
wiring · CAD · drafting · engineering · architecture · component · assembly · subsystem · interconnect · specification
sketch
Hasty informal drawing
- drawCreate with pencil
- illustrateExplain through depiction
- renderCause to become
depict · trace · delineate · draft · plot · map · graph · chart · outline · layout
organize
Put into systematic order
sequence · categorize · classify · systematize · arrange · order · group · tree · branching · nodes
design
Purposeful creative planning
- modelRepresentation or paradigm
- blueprintDetailed technical drawing
- prototypeFirst functional specimen
draft · conceive · plan · configure · map · structure · wireframe · mockup · iteration · storyboard
- arrangingarranging, organizing, ordering, positioning, placing
- grammar booksgrammar books, grammar rules, grammar guides, grammar exercises, usage guide
- grammar practicegrammar worksheets, grammar games, verb conjugation, parts of speech, subject-verb agreement
- syntaxsentence, verb, noun, adjective, adverb
- problem-solvingproblem solving, puzzles, riddles, logic, solutions
- illustrationpainting, drawing, watercolor, sketch, charcoal
diagrammingprose writing
Language without metrical structure
narrating · expository writing · describing · storytelling · dictating
diagrammingfreewriting
Continuous unedited composition
stream of consciousness · improvising · rambling · free association · doodling
- sentence diagrammingCharting clausal architecture
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