Program Overview

Pollagraph is a structured writing system designed to strengthen reasoning, clarity, and communication. Participants respond to prompts using a disciplined five sentence paragraph format that encourages focus, coherence, and intellectual precision. Every response is submitted anonymously, which allows participants to express their thinking freely without concern for judgment or attribution. This guide explains the participant experience, the facilitator workflow, and the principles that make Pollagraph effective.

Participant Instructions

What You Will Do

You will read a prompt, then write or speak exactly one five sentence paragraph in response. You may use any word processor such as a laptop, a tablet, or your phone's notes app. You may not use AI for help of any kind because the purpose of this exercise is to capture your own thinking without assistance or filtering.

The Five Sentence Rule

Your paragraph must contain exactly five sentences. The submission form enforces this rule by activating the Send button only when the system detects exactly five sentences.

How to Submit

1. Write or speak your paragraph using any word processor.
2. Go to resimont.com.
3. Paste your paragraph into the text box.
4. Enter the prompt exactly as it was given to you.
5. Enter the recipient's email address provided by the facilitator.
6. Click Send once the button becomes active.

Your response is delivered from contact@resimont.com. Every response arrives from the same address, which ensures that no one can identify who wrote what. Anonymity is built into the system.

Tips for Writing a Strong Paragraph

• Begin with a topic sentence that directly addresses the prompt.
• Write three support sentences that develop your idea.
• Use the final sentence to present a conclusion that follows naturally from your prose.
• Submit your completed five sentence paragraph on resimont.com.

Facilitator Notes

Facilitators select prompts that match the goals of the session such as leadership development, team alignment, reflective practice, or instructional improvement. Because responses are anonymous, facilitators can surface themes, insights, and tensions without exposing individual participants. The facilitator's role is not to evaluate writing quality but to interpret patterns of reasoning that appear across the group.

Structure of a Pollagraph Session

1. Prompt Delivery: Participants receive a single prompt.
2. Writing Phase: Participants craft their five sentence paragraphs.
3. Submission: Participants submit their paragraphs anonymously through resimont.com.
4. Aggregation: Facilitators receive all responses in a single inbox.
5. Analysis: Facilitators identify themes, contrasts, and insights.
6. Discussion: The group engages in a guided conversation based on the aggregated thinking.

Post Processing the Collection of Paragraphs

Once all five sentence paragraphs have been submitted, the facilitator begins the post processing phase. This phase is grounded in the measurement of redundancy, which refers to the recurrence of ideas across independently written paragraphs. Redundancy is treated as evidence of shared reasoning. When multiple participants express similar interpretations, concerns, or conclusions, those overlaps reveal the collective center of thought within the group. Because every paragraph follows the same disciplined structure, these recurrences can be recognized with clarity and used to understand how the group is thinking as a whole.

Measuring Redundancy

Redundancy is the central analytic concept in Pollagraph. It allows the facilitator to identify ideas that appear repeatedly across paragraphs, ideas that appear only once, and ideas that appear with variation. High redundancy signals strong alignment within the group. Low redundancy signals divergence or novelty. By examining redundancy, the facilitator can distinguish between shared reasoning, emerging insights, and minority viewpoints.

• Identify ideas that recur across multiple paragraphs.
• Recognize ideas that appear only once and may represent new thinking.
• Observe ideas that recur with variation and reflect shared concerns expressed in different ways.
• Use redundancy patterns to understand alignment, divergence, and conceptual tension.

Redundancy and Thematic Structure

Redundancy strengthens theme identification. Because each paragraph contains a topic sentence, three development sentences, and a concluding insight, repeated ideas can be located within the same structural positions. This allows the facilitator to see how participants interpret the prompt, how they develop their reasoning, and how they reach conclusions. Themes emerge naturally from repeated structural elements.

• Topic sentences reveal shared interpretations of the prompt.
• Development sentences reveal common reasoning patterns.
• Concluding sentences reveal shared values or judgments.

Redundancy and Contrast

Measuring redundancy also makes contrast more visible. When most paragraphs share a particular idea and a few do not, the divergence becomes clear. When several paragraphs express different reasoning styles, those differences stand out against areas of strong redundancy. This helps the facilitator understand where the group aligns and where it diverges.

• Identify ideas that differ from the dominant pattern.
• Recognize alternative reasoning styles.
• Observe areas of uncertainty or disagreement.

Synthesizing Insights Through Redundancy

After redundancy patterns have been identified, the facilitator synthesizes the insights into a narrative summary. This synthesis reflects the collective reasoning of the group rather than the contributions of any individual. Redundancy ensures that the summary is grounded in the ideas most strongly supported across the paragraphs.

The synthesis may include:

• Ideas that appear most frequently across the group.
• Ideas that appear only once and may represent new insights.
• Ideas that recur with variation and reflect shared concerns.
• Questions raised implicitly by the group’s reasoning.

Preparing for Group Discussion

The facilitator uses redundancy patterns to prepare a discussion plan. The goal is to help participants see the collective reasoning that emerged from their anonymous contributions. Redundancy provides a clear foundation for reflection, dialogue, and exploration of shared and divergent ideas.

• Present areas of strong redundancy to show alignment.
• Present areas of low redundancy to show divergence or novelty.
• Invite participants to elaborate on ideas that resonate with them.
• Encourage exploration of tensions revealed through redundancy patterns.

Optional: Quantitative Redundancy Coding

Facilitators may apply quantitative measures to redundancy. This is not required, but it can deepen the analysis. Quantitative coding allows the facilitator to count how often ideas appear, measure variation, and track changes across multiple sessions.

• Frequency counts of recurring ideas.
• Identification of reasoning patterns such as cause effect or comparison.
• Measurement of variation across repeated ideas.
• Tracking shifts in redundancy patterns across sessions.

The Purpose of Redundancy Measurement

Measuring redundancy allows Pollagraph to reveal how a group thinks. It transforms a set of anonymous paragraphs into a structured map of collective reasoning. Redundancy makes alignment visible, highlights divergence, and surfaces new insights. The result is a richer and more productive conversation grounded in the actual thinking of the group.