This editorial worksheet applies Lasswell’s communicator, content, channel, audience, and effects questions to planning and evaluation. Separate records preserve intended design and observed results. Relevant extensions address context and feedback, while the five fields organize inquiry without independently demonstrating causation, validating a score, or assuming automatic persuasion.
- FamilyTool
- CategoryAnalytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics
- DomainEvidence & Evaluation
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Analytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics
Organizes dimensions, distinctions, types or questions so that a situation can be examined systematically. A framework supplies structure, a typology distinguishes forms, and a heuristic offers a usable way to orient judgment.