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• Relevance


  How appropriate something is to what is being said at a given time
• Truth


  Something that is proven by facts and sincerity
• Consider the source


  Investigate the source
• Read beyond


  Focus on the whole story
• Check the author


  Find out if they are credible
• Verify supporting ideas


  Check if it actually supports the story
• Check the date


  Reposting does not mean they're relevant
• Check your biases


  Does your beliefs affect your judgement
• Sound


  Free from erroneous information
• Evidence


  Proof that the argument is VALID. Includes data, statistics, examples and studies
• Clarity


  Choice of words that relate to the speech purpose and to the target audience
• Effectiveness


  Encourages the audience to consider the presenter's viewpoints
• Speech/idea development


  The way speaker puts ideas together so the audience can understand them
• Currency


  Timeliness of the information
• Relevance


  Importance of the information
• Authority


  Source of the information
• Accuracy


  Reliability and truthfulness of the information
• Purpose


  Reason why the information exists
• Sufficiency


  Condition or quality of being adequate
• Accuracy


  Conformity to truth or standard model
• Appeal


  Attractiveness or state of wanting to learn more
• Information


  Facts provided
• Formal writing


  • Avoiding casual or conversational language such as contractions or informal vocabulary
• Objective writing


  • Impersonal and objective by avoiding direct reference to people or feelings, and instead emphasizing objects, facts and ideas
• Technical writing


  • Using vocabulary specific to the discipline
• Descriptive writing


  • The simplest type which purpose is to provide facts or information
• Analytical writing


  • Includes descriptive writing, but also requires you to re-organize the facts and information you describe into categories, groups, parts, types or relationships
• Persuasive writing


  • Has all the features of analytical writing with the addition of your own point of view
• Critical writing


  • Common for research postgraduate and advanced undergraduate writing
• Essay


  • A fairly short, self-contained argument, often using sources from a class in response to a question provided by an instructor
• Academic journal


  • A periodical publication that includes various original research work and reviews of the previous subjects. Also known as Scholarly Journal
• Book report


  • An objective summary of the main ideas and arguments that the book's author has presented. The purpose of the report is to give enough information to help decide whether the book will be of use or interest to any potential readers
• Thesis/dissertation


  • A major piece of work representing the research done and contributes new findings that add to the overall discipline
• Abstract


  A concise summary of a research paper or entire thesis. It must be fully self-contained and make sense by itself, without further reference to outside sources or to the actual paper