Terms Case

Terms

Ch.1

1) Analysis: a detailed examination of the structure of something used for discussions.

2) Evaluation: judging or examine something or someone carefully.

3) Heuristic: encouraging a person to discover, learn, or solve problems on their own, by trial and error or evaluating all solutions.

4) Topics: subject that is dealt with in a text or conversation.

5) Research: looking into and studying new materials and sources to come up with facts and reach new conclusions.

6) Assumptions: the act of taking something for granted or assuming it's true without any proof.

Ch.2

1) Author: a person that writes a book, report, article, column, etc.

2) Place of Publication: the city where the information or data set was published.

3) Title: The name of an artistic work, a book, or a composition of some sort.

4) Thesis: a theory or statement used as a proposition that must be proven.

5) Underline, Highlight: a line under a word/ phrase or significant details that provide emphasis.

6) Annotation: a note added to a text through comment or explanation.

7) Purpose: the reason why something is done, created, or exists.

8) Summary, Paraphrase: restatement of main points in a text used to clarify the meaning.

9) Plagiarism: taking someone else's work or ideas and trying to pass it off as your own.

Ch3.

1) I would give Brownmiller's essay a B because she is very thorough in explaining her feelings and opinions. She uses facts to back her up. She talked about how women are seen as objects, "[t]o buy a paper at the corner newsstand is to subject oneself to a forcible immersion in pornography, to be demeaned by an array of dehumanized, chopped-up parts of the female anatomy, packaged like cuts of meat at the supermarket" (59).

(Google Scholar, http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en&tab=ps, Google, 2011.)