Source Terms
A secondhand account of events.
What is a secondary source?
This is usually found in the front matter of a book that lists chapter titles and page numbers.
What is a table of contents?
A statement that is objectively true or false.
What is a factual statement?
Events are presented in the order they occured.
What is chronological?
A software tool used to locate information online or within a digital text.
What is a search engine?
A firsthand document or source created at the time in question.
What is a primary source?
This is usually found in the back of a book that includes an alphabetized list of key terms and their definitions.
What is a glossary?
How the writer uses words to create the desired mood and tone.
What is style?
Highlights similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
A word or words used to find information via a search engine.
What is a search term?
Reliant on ideas backed by study.
What is researched based?
Comment at the bottom of the page that provides additional information about something within the text.
What is a footnote?
The predominate emotion present in a text.
What is tone?
Explains why something happened and the result.
What is cause and effect?
A feature in digital texts that allows readers to search for key words and topics within a text.
What is a query function?
Published writings that have been analyzed by experts in the field.
What are peer-reviewed journals?
Text feature that is set apart from the main body of a text
What is a sidebar?
A hint the author provides to the reader in order to help define difficult or unique words.
What is a context clue?
Presents a problem and ways to address the problem.
What is problem and solution?
Proof, such as facts, descriptions , and other types of information that support key points in a piece of writing.
What are details?
A compilation of primary and secondary sources.
What is a tertiary source?
Feature that explains symbols and other elements that represent information on a map.
What is a legend?
Tendency toward or against a preconceived idea.
What is bias?
Describes a sequence of events.
What is chronological order?
Appeals used in arguments to persuade readers emotionally, morally, and intellectually.
What are rhetorical devices?