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• Context


  The social, cultural, historical, political, and other related circumstances or events that surround the text
• Intertext


  The shaping of the text's meaning by another text
• Hypertext


  A way of representing text about a topic where other topics can be linked
• Appropriation


  Borrowing from another text or reimagining an existing text and making it new
• Allusion


  Reference to another text and can also be a reference for a person, place, or event
• Biblical allusion


  A statement that refers to the Bible without directly mentioning it
• Literary allusion


  A statement that indirectly refers to other well-known literary works
• Historical allusion


  A statement that refers to history
• Pop culture allusion


  An association of a person, place, or event within a specific community or culture
• Parody


  A funny imitation of a serious piece of literature, writing, art, or music
• Hyperlinks


  When you type the link of the website you would like to quickly send the reader
• Hypermedia


  A combination of text, graphics, video or sound can now easily be interlinked in hypermedia documents to offer a rich, often interactive environment
• Evaluative statement


  A statement that states one's sound judgment about something through writing which is supported by reasons and evidence
• Assertion


  Declarative sentences that give one's belief about something else as if it is true though it may not be. It is expressed as an argument
• Assertion and Counterclaim

  The two ways to formulate your evaluative statements
• Fact


  A statement that can be proven objectively by direct experience, testimonies of witnesses, verified observations, or the results of research
• Convention


  A way in which something is done similar to traditions and norms. Its truthfulness can be verified only by reference to historical precedents, laws, rules, usage, and customs
• Opinion


  A statement based on facts but is difficult to objectively verify because of the uncertainty of producing satisfactory proofs of soundness
• Preference


  States a personal choice in which the writer is under no obligation to support or prove the truthfulness of the statement
• Critique


  A short summary followed by an evaluation and may include the writer's opinions
• Book critique


  A type of literary criticism in which a book's content and style is evaluated and analyzed
• Article critique


  Presents a critical assessment of the article's content and may offer agreement or disagreement about the ideas written in the article
• Summarizing


  Reducing a text to its main points and its most important ideas
• Paraphrasing


  Putting the text into your own words