Unit 6 Vocabulary

the intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium

• audience

• primary source

• readers

• secondary source

the quality of having reliable and trustworthy characteristics which may be influenced by an author having expertise on a topic, using unbiased and accurate reasoning, evidence, and sources to support ideas, and providing current and up-to-date information

• paraphrase

• bias

• credibility

• reliable source

the strategic integration of two or more modes of communication to create meaning, including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts and media, and live performances

• multimodal

• plagiarize

• inquiry

• synthesize

a reference to the author’s name, title of work, date published, publisher, and/or page numbers of quoted or paraphrased text in a shortened in-text notation or in a longer bibliographic entry

• primary source

• paraphrase

• audience

• citation

an act of searching for information or knowledge about a particular subject or topic

• synthesize

• inquiry

• paraphrase

• plagiarize

restate the meaning of something in different words. Paraphrasing alters the exact wording of the source and transmits its ideas or information without evaluation or interpretation

• paraphrase

• synthesize

• plagiarize

• inquiry

to combine elements and parts to form a coherent whole

• inquiry

• plagiarize

• synthesize

• paraphrase

the process of objectively investigating and collecting information regarding a particular subject in order to discover facts, theories, perspectives, etc.

• research process

• reliable source

• synthesize

• multimodal

a source that is a step removed from the original accounts of an event or experience

• primary source

• secondary source

• reliable source

• research process

a credible or believable source. Some questions to evaluate credibility might be: Is the author a respected authority on the subject? Does the author support opinions with strong argumentation and reasoning? How current is the information?

• primary source

• secondary source

• credibility

• reliable source