Sources
Textual Research
Digital Genres and Modes
Vocabulary
Bonus
100

What is a source that provides the original material about a text and provide the basis for other documents?

Primary Sources

100

Why is Wikipedia not a reliable source?

It is not a reliable source because anyone can edit the pages.

100

What is a genre?

Term for the different categories of documents that you might write.

100

What is the purpose of an anchorage?

To help fix the meaning of an image so the audience can better interpret it.

100

What is an analogy?

One of the most basic structures of communications and are present in how humans understand the world through both alphabetic writing and writing with images.

200

What is a source that provide opinions or evaluations of a source or text?

Secondary Sources

200

What is the problem with remixing research?

It may run into problems with copyright laws.

200

What is a mode?

A mode identifies the purpose for your writing or what the writing attempts to do.

200

What is a relay?

A relay operates alongside moving images, such as film, or images in a sequence. Relay develops meaning through the back and forth interplay between image and text to create a larger narrative than either provide individually.

200

What is a metaphor?

A metaphor is a type of analogy. It helps express ideas by using something familiar from one domain and applying it to another.

300

Are websites only primary sources?

No, they can either be primary or secondary sources.

300

Why is it important to know the writer's purpose & the message's subject when incorporating a text into your own design?

So there will not be any contradicting ideas, or false ideas.

300

Is narration a form of mode?

Yes

300

What is a juxtaposition?

A juxtaposition offers a powerful technique for creating your own visual arguments.

300

What is a metonymy?

It is a kind of metaphor that uses part-to-whole relationships to stand in for another idea, and it can offer you ways to succinctly represent an idea through an image.

400

_________ can provide an index of information about images,videos,books,articles,news media, and other texts in a central, searchable location.

Databases

400

What is the purpose of typography?

To set a certain look and feel.

400

What is the purpose of the mode "description"?

To re-create sensory experience through written language.

400

What is denotation?

Denotation is the literal meaning of an image or sign.

400

What is a synecdoche?

A synecdoche is a kind of metaphor that occurs when a part of an object stands in for the whole of an actual physical object or group of people.

500

Is every .org source credible?

NO

500

What is the purpose of composition techniques?

To make certain things stand out.

500

Why do writers use exposition?

To teach the audience about some situation in order to further a claim.

500

What is connotation?

Connotation pertains to those messages of an image that include the symbolic levels.

500

What are the three steps of deductive reasoning?

A major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.