Lexicon

A-E

• Annotated Bibliography– A summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources (Purdue OWL)
• Catalog data– Data describing where other information can be found.
• Citation– a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work. This is important as it is necessary to know the source of a piece of information. (dictionary.com)
• Curate– a person who is invested with the care or cure of souls of a parish.
• Critical thinking– The act of examining a text or other through various outlook, attaining critical interpretations, improving the quality by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it.
• Close Reading– Thoughtful analysis of a text that focuses on significant details in order to develop a better understanding of the text’s meanings. (GTFYW)
• Descriptive data– Data meant to summarize or describe a set of information. (GTFYW)

F-K

• (archive) Identifier– The search engine of an archive.
• Form– How an image/text is produced.
• Finding aid– A document containing detailed information about a specific collection of papers or records within an archive.

L-P

• Lexicon– Greek meaning a book of language. We use it to mean words relevant to a field or topic. (Class Powerpoint)
• Material Culture– Objects relevant o a specific place and time. (Haltman)
• Metadata– A set of data that describes and gives information about other data. (dictionary.com)
• Medium– The material or technological means through which something is made. (dictionary.com)
• Parody– Replicates aspects of the original that make the reference recognizable while also creating satire or humor.
• Prownian Analysis– A way of identifying, and examining objects through detailed physical description, guessing at uses of the object, and treating the object as a fiction as a way of relating the object to more broad concepts. (Rose, lecture)
• Polysemous– Visual texts being able to carry multiple meanings to address rhetorical situations. (GTFYW)

Q-U

• Tagging– Attaching a label to something – such as a post. (https://www.google.com/search?q=tagging&oq=tagging&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.22518j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8) 
• Thesis- Statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. (Class)
• Thick Description– Putting meaning to actions, words, things, etc. providing enough context so that readers can make meaning of what is being described. (Paraphrase from Geertz)

V-Z

• Visual rhetoric– Visual texts, working on their own or along with written texts, to move specific audiences to think or act differently.