English - Qt4 2024

• Academic Writing


  • Aims to provide information or evidence for an argument and requires more factual evidence for support
  • Complexity - incorporates language particular to the audience
  • Formality - use of formal language; avoid colloquial and abbreviations
  • Objectivity - concerned with facts rather than personal opinions
  • Precision - be specific and direct to the point
  • Accuracy - accurate use of vocabulary, facts and figures
• Communication


  The art of exchanging messages between two or more people
• Types of Communication


  • Verbal - use of sounds and words to express yourself, especially in contrast to using gestures or mannerisms
  • Non Verbal - transfer of information through the use of body language including eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, and more
  • Written - art of conveying information or ideas through the written word
• Effective Questions


  • Open-ended Questions - designed to encourage the interviewee to share experiences, emotions, attitude or opinions. Usually begins with the 5 Ws (What, when, where, why and how)
  • Close-ended Questions - answers the yes or no questions
  • Nosy Questions - how do you often take a bath?
  • Obvious Questions - What is the color of your hair?
• Important Information


  Refers to main ideas or key topics
• Interesting Information


  Refers to the little detail or a cool detail
• Filtering


  • A process of selecting the most important information necessary to understand better the selection listening to
• Types of Information Disorder

  • Satire/ Parody - No intention to cause harm but has the potential to fool
  • Misleading content - Misleading use of information to frame an issue or individual. It's about cropping photos or choosing quotes or statistics selectively to support an argument
  • Imposter content - This is when genuine sources are impersonated. An example of this is when the logo of a well-known brand or name is used alongside false content
  • Fabricated content - New fake social media accounts are created to spread new and invented content from it
  • False connection - When headlines, visuals or captions don't support the content
  • False context - This is when genuine content is shared with false contextual information. It often happens during a breaking news event when old imagery is re-shared, but it also happens when old news articles are re-shared as new
  • Manipulated context - This is when genuine information or imagery is manipulated to deceive. The genuine content is tampered with or doctored in some way