1102 Key Concepts
The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
What is research?
False or inaccurate information, especially that which is deliberately intended to deceive.
What is misinformation?
January 27th @ 11:59pm
What is the due date for Post #2 From Tweets to Reports?
The way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source
What is a citation?
A text that is aimed at convincing me to take a stance, buy a product, or believe something to be true.
What is a persuasive text?
A set of skills that help people navigate through information overload.
What is information literacy?
False information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media.
What is disinformation?
Find a social media post or text about your research topic and then find a reliable source that either confirms or disproves that information.
What are the expectations for Post #2?
Any interactive site/post that allows you to comment, like, or share.
Social media
A text that is unbiased and written with the intention of teaching the reader about a specific topic.
What is an informative text?
Considering a source's specific purpose(s), audience(s), and genre to determine how they impact the information it provides
What is rhetorical research?
An ethical way to use ChatGPT or other generative AI
Re-word a complicated portion of text for the sake of understanding; starting point for research such as brainstorming ideas/search terms/titles; proofreading a document; acknowledge when you use it
This page includes all of the instructions and guiding questions for the project and must be read thoroughly.
What is the assignment sheet?
An article, report or other item originating from any website. It may have an author and hyperlinked citations, but it not considered a scholarly article.
What is a web article?
The medium through which information is presented (i.g. book, web article, memo, report, essay, etc.) It describes a "type" or "kind" of text.
What is genre?
The idea that you are always depending on others in some way when you write, even if you are sitting alone at your desk.
What is collaborative writing?
“The submission of any work authored by another person or automated tool without proper acknowledgement of the source, whether that material is paraphrased or copied in verbatim or near-verbatim form” (Item 6.ix.i, p. 17).
What is the FIU school policy on using AI generated content?
50% of Module 1 Project
What is Researching Rhetorically Post #3: Reflecting on Unit 1?
An example of a non-peer reviewed source; a newspaper; trade journal; popular magazine. A publication that is only reviewed by an editor before going to publication. Usually only reviewed for grammar or spelling mistakes. This makes them different than their peer reviewed counterparts.
FIU News; TED Ideas; New York Times; The Wall Street Journal; Engineering News Record; Cosmopolitan; Forbes; other
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another; a degree of advocacy
What is bias?
The act of evaluating the credibility of a source by comparing it with other sources.
What is lateral reading?
A deep learning algorithm that’s equipped to summarize, translate, predict, and generate text to convey ideas and concepts.
What is a Large Language Model (LLM)?
When a writer responds to the views of others in their writing, weaving in their ideas to then expand on the topic at hand.
What is synthesis?
Articles that are written by experts and are reviewed by several other experts in the field before the article is published in the journal in order to ensure the article’s quality.
What are academic/scholarly/peer-reviewed sources?
The WAY an author makes their argument; the choices they made in presenting their information (images, graphs, short vs. long paragraphs, quotes, lists, bullet points, etc.)
What are stylistic choices?