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==Overview==
"Commonplace" is a [[Calque|translation]] of the [[Latin]] term ''locus communis'' (from Greek ''tópos koinós'', see [[literary topos]]) which means "a general or common
Commonplaces are a separate genre of writing from [[Diary|diaries]] or [[Travel journal#Travelogues|travelogues]]. Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts; sometimes they were required of young women as evidence of their mastery of social roles and as demonstrations of the correctness of their upbringing.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=Susan |title=Assuming the Positions: Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Commonplace Writing |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0822939917}}</ref> They became significant in [[Early Modern Europe]]. As a genre, commonplace books were generally private collections of information, but as the amount of information grew following the invention of [[movable type]] and printing became less expensive, some were published for the general public.
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