Information Literacy KeyTerms by Ms. Conners

Unit 2 KeyTerms

lconners — 2016-09-27 00:43:11 UTC

1. Name of Term

2. PPT Definition

3. Personal Definition

4. Use in a sentence

5. Image or Video related to term.

6. Post the information and Include your name.

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Biography

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- Deeya Deepak

An account of somebody and/or their work in life, written by another person.
- Ex. Sentence: According to the picture below, Melissa Müller wrote the biography on Anne Frank.

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Symone Johnson
Cross Reference
- A note in a book (such as a dictionary) that tells you where to look for more information
- A note that leads you to more information on the topic you're specifically reading.
As I was reading my APUSH book I came across some helpful cross references.

Ashley Lowder

2016-09-27 11:44:43 UTC

1. Reliability
2. Extent to which an experiment, test, or measuring procedure yields the same results on repeated trials.
3. When the second experiment has the same results as the first using replication.
4. The experiment on video game violence had reliability.

Avery Irwin

2016-09-27 11:44:45 UTC

Truncated
-Shorten (something) by cutting off the top or the end
- Cutting something off to make it shorter
- I cut off the first sentence and the last sentence of my letter to make it shorter

Storyboard Jacob Parker

2016-09-27 11:44:52 UTC

-A sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots planned for a movie or television production.
-Little boxes with illustrations and dialogue, that plan out a story.
-Hey Steven Spielberg, do you want to see my story board for my movie?

Validity

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The quality of being logically or factually sound

A way to find something has logic and evidence in it with it.

Do you have enough validity for those facts you just stated.

Nick Katial

Credentials

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Alexander Morse

-A qualification of a person's background used to indicate they are suitable for something
-A document proving a person's identity or qualifications

Sentence: We only hire professionals based on their academic credentials.
-Alexander M.

Bias

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-Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

-When you or someone else is supportive of or against one thing, person, or group

compared with another, usually interpreted to be unfair.
-The news Chanel showed a lot of bias on the major event.
-Picture- CNN is known as one of the most biased news networks today. CNN is in major support of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton showing false numbers in poles.

-Spencer McQuay

Statistics- collection, classification, analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts

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Personal Definition- numerical facts that are presented in a specific way.

Statistics show that Donald Trump is ahead of Hillary Clinton in the polls.

Tanvir Arora

Opinions

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Jessica Garcia

Definition : When someone gives their personal information about a topic, not based on facts.

Sentence: Jorge had his own personal opinion about the presidential debate last night.

Audit

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Ryan Thomas
(PPT Definition)Audit :an official inspection of an individual's or organization's accounts.

(Personal Definition)Audit: The governmant checks every thing you paid for. EX. Taxes or bills

(Sentence) When the pastor started to become corrupt, the IRS decided to audit the church to take the corrupt pastor down

Autobiography

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1.An account of a person’s life written by that person.
2. Someone writing about there life
3. Many people that experience unusual and interesting things writes autobiography

- Fashi Dillard

Accuracy

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Accuracy- Being correct and precise
When tests are graded, they are checked for
accuracy.

Morgan McBride

Commentary (Nick Rubin)

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-An expression of opinions, an offering of explanation about a book, sport, event etc
.-The football game's commentary was very interesting to listen to.

Golden

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The definition of Liability in my own words is someone or something making it a disadvantage to complete an certain task.

Periodicals

1389646 — 2016-09-27 11:49:17 UTC

Something published at regular intervals (weekly or monthly)
Things that are published regularly
Those magazines are periodicals.
Jasmin Burrell

Disseminating (Ben Schultz)

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-Spread or disperse information widely.
-You spread information out.
-Their job was to disseminate propaganda and information.

Reliable - Ian Holmgren

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consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted.
someone that you can trust to do something you need them to do.
The man is reliable, because he always gets his work done on time no matter what the task is.

Industries (Alberto Abreu)

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1. Industries

2.The manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field.

3. A manufacture of goods in a factory.

4. There are a lot of big industries in America.

Quoting

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Give someone the estimate of a job or service
To tell someone the approximate price of a job/service.

Pamphlet

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def-a small booklet giving information

a small information book

Bill had to look at the car Pamphlet forinformation on how to fix the engine.

Secondary Information - Hannah D'Angelo

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1. Secondary Information

2. Information which has already been compiled and is therefore found through desk research.

3. Using another resource to obtain information not experienced or known firsthand.

4. By writing about Anne Frank's autobiography, my document was a piece of secondary information.

Dissertation (Not Noah Caldwell)

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Definition: A written account of research

Personal: Research that is in the form of writing

I finished my dissertation on Afghanistan

Proposal

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Zack Shail
Proposal is defined as an idea or suggestion made by someone then presented to other people.

The CEO of my company loved my proposal about selling a new product.

Primary Information - Taylor Calhoun

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PPT - The original document from which information is extracted.

The primary information came from a known source.

Prioritize:determine the order for dealing with items, tasks, etc. according to their relative importance.

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Personal definition: organizing by order of importance

Analysis

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PPT definition-detailed examination of the elements or structure of something
Personal definition-systematic and detailed examination of the data or information
Sentence-The professor always told us to do a thorough analysis of our work
Vedang Diwanji

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Subjective (Seth Gullion

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1. Subjective
2. Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.

3. Opinions that lead to a certain point of view.

4. My opinions are part of a subjective view in life.

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(Liam Park) Prioritize determine the order for dealing with items, tasks, etc. according to their relative importance.

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Personal definition: Organizing in order of importance