Unit 1: Digital Communication
The listener, viewer, or reader of a text
What is the audience?
The author's method of organizing the text
What is text structure?
A reference to a source of information (book, article, video, etc.) used in research
What is a citation?
This library resource includes articles from magazines, newspapers, and academic journals
What is a database?
What is persuade?
Helps establish the writer's respect for the audience and suggests that the writer is serious about their topic
What is formal tone?
Arranged in the order of time
What is chronological?
A preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific
What is bias?
It's important to cite sources for a paper or presentation to avoid this
What is plagiarism?
Expressing a lot in very few words
What is concise?
One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing
What is purpose?
Elements added to an article to enhance understanding, point our important info, or format the text
What are text features?
To judge the significance, worth, or quality of something
What is evaluate?
This describes sources which are reasonable to trust or believe
What is credible?
Novels, movies, and TV shows are all examples of this type of author's purpose
What is entertainment?
A casual, friendly way of speaking that might use slang and informal language
What is informal tone?
A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text
What is close reading?
This is the first piece of information found in a citation
What is the author's name?
This library resource includes all of the books in the library's collection
What is the library catalog?
Communication through letters, emails, or other writing
What is correspondence?
Out of date, no longer in use
What is obsolete?
Material added at the end of a book
What is an appendix/glossary?
This is a reference within a research paper that states the author's name in parentheses
What is an in-text citation?
In the CRAAP research process, this is what the R stands for
What is relevance?
This text feature involves a number after a term which corresponds to a definition at the bottom of the same page
What is a footnote?