Course Glossary


Here are some words that you should be familiar with for this course.

Unless otherwise noted, definitions from Wiktionary. CC BY SA

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Secondary evidence

Information that has been drawn from other articles, magazines, or books rather than from the original documents, often located in archives. The usual distinction is that secondary evidence usually involves someone’s interpretation of primary sources. There is a potential complication, however: Depending on how an author uses the evidence, articles, books, newspapers, radio or TV programs can be either primary or secondary sources for an article.

A Guide to Reading and Analyzing Academic Articles, by Amanda Graham, 1997-2012, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.


Setting

Noun

setting (plural settings)

  1. The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.

Social Networks

Social Network VisualizationFor the context of this course we will be using the terms Social Networks and Social Media interchangeably. 

Computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.

Diagram depicting the many different types of social media

Wikipedia


Structure

Manner in which a building or other complete whole [like an academic paper] is constructed, supporting framework or whole of the essential parts of something (the structure of a poem, sentence, etc.) (Oxford Concise Dictionary).

A Guide to Reading and Analyzing Academic Articles, by Amanda Graham, 1997-2012, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.


Style

Refers to the way a writer expresses his or her ideas. Oxford Concise Dictionary: “manner of writing, speaking, or doing, in contrast to the matter to be expressed or thing done; collective characteristics of the writing or diction or way of presenting things.”

A Guide to Reading and Analyzing Academic Articles, by Amanda Graham, 1997-2012, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.


Summary

Adjective

summary (comparative more summarysuperlative most summary)

  1. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form