Media Research Vocab

​ (a)   ​ All the componets of a story or article that are not the main body of text.

• text features

• credibility

• primary source

• secondary source

• claim

​ (a)   ​ the quality of being believable or worthy of trust

• credibility

• primary source

• secondary source

• claim

• text features

​ ​ information created later by someone who did not have experience with it

• secondary source

• primary source

• claim

• text features

• credibility

​ (a)   ​immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had direct connection with it.

• primary source

• claim

• text features

• credibility

• secondary source

​ (a)   ​to claim or assert something is the case without evidence or proof

• claim

• text features

• credibility

• secondary source

• primary source

​ (a)   ​having a sound basis in logic or fact

• valid

• text features

• claim

• thesis statement

• informational writing

​ (a)   writing that is factual and its purpose is to explain something to the reader

• informational writing

• text features

• claim

• thesis statement

• valid

​ (a)   a statement that summarizes the main point of an essay

• thesis statement

• text features

• claim

• valid

• informational writing

​ (a)   persuasive information using figures of speech

• rhetoric

• bandwagon

• avant-guarde

• testimonial

• facts and figures

​ (a)   a technique that makes you feel like everyone is doing it so you should do it too.

• bandwagon

• avant-guarde

• testimonial

• facts and figures

• rhetoric