rw semi finals

• Hypertext


  Allows reader to access information particularly suited to their needs, non-linear way to present information using "links" that help the readers navigate further information, text displayed on a computer, hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks
• World Wide Web


  Global hypertext system of information
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL)


  Web resource that specifies its location, e.g. http://www.example.com/index.html (Protocol/Host name/File name)
• Hypermedia


  Links that are not limited to text (pictures, sounds and videos)
• Intertext


  Enables the author to make another text based on another text (intertextuality), properties of an original text are incorporated in the text that is created by another author
• Methods of Intertextuality


  • Retelling - restatement
  • Quotation - lifting exact statement (another author has made)
  • Allusion - explicitly/implicitly
  • Pastiche - copies the style
• Critical Reading


  Engaging in analytic activity, critical readers are evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting
• Reasoning


  Act of giving statements for justification and explanation, ability of someone to defend something by giving out reasons
• Critical reading is not meant to criticize but to assess the validity of textual evidence
• Steps used in Critical Reading as Reasoning


  • Identifying Assertions
  • Formulating Counterclaim
  • Determining Evidence
• Example of Modals


  • May
  • Could
  • Would
  • Should
  • Might
  • Certain
  • Must
• Evaluative Statement


  Statement that states one's sound judgement, also presents the strengths and weaknesses of something
• How to Formulate Evaluative Statement


  Begin with the positive before you point out the negatives, remember that your evaluative statement should be factual, substantial and unbiased, when giving your negative feedback, it should not sound insulting on the part of the evaluatee, suggest a solution/s or suggestion/s on how to improve the written material being evaluated and provide justification how these will work, keep your feedback concise and precise, be careful in giving your feedback since evaluations pass judgment onto works of authors, they must be written and expressed with care and much diligence
• Assertions


  Declarative sentences that give one's belief
• Four Types of Assertions


  • Fact
  • Convention
  • Opinion
  • Preference
• Counterclaims


  Claims made to rebut a previous claim
• Four Types of Counterclaims


  • Claim
  • Counterclaim
  • Reason
  • Evidence