Summary – Communicating your understanding of a text’s main ideas.

Thesis: The main claim of an argument.

Abstract: Overview.

Paraphrase – Your understanding of a small amount of text.

Claim – an assertion that typically needs evidence to support it.

Rhetoric: The art of effective or persuasive speech or writing; language designed to have a persuasive effect on the reader.

Affordances: Things that a design allows you to do.

Constraints:  Things in which a design restricts us from doing.

Genre: A kind or type of something.

Conventions of a Genre: Characteristics that define a genre.

Lexicon: A list of terms from a text, subject, and/or discussion.

Digital Literacy: The ability to effectively use the various tools of different forms of media.

Primary Research: The use of data gathered through oneself.

Secondary Research: The use of data gathered by others.

Multi-modality:  Linguistic, Oral, Visual, Gestural, & Spatial; The collection and use of multiple paths of communication.

Content: What is being said

Style: How it is stated.

Metadata: A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.