ENGLISH

SITES
.org-an advocy website
.com-bussines or commercial website
.net-a site from network organization
.eden-a site afflicted with a higher education
.gov-government site
.llus-a site govermentsite,may also inc. public
schools and community collages
.uk-united kingdom,a site organating in another
country
VERRFYING YOUR WEB SOURCES
1.Watch out for false information
2.Check the source
3.Separate fact and opinion
4.Look at hows story being told
5.Use fact checking tools
SKINNING STRATEGIES
-left and right
-titles and subtitles/heading ads
-first and last paragraphs
-illustrations,graphs,tables
-the first sentence in each
SCANNING
-up and down
-looking up a word in the book or dictrionary
PRINT SOURCES
Type of refences
Alamanacs-good for looking up specific
facts,statics,tables and list about
people,places,events,countries,organization
Biblegraphies-compliple comprenhsive list of
resources that share onr or more common
attributes about a particular subject,person etc.
Dictionaries-gives an alpebetical list of words and
their definitions.
Biographies-contain information about people living
and decrased
Atlases-contain an organized group of pictorial or
illustrated political,cultural,physical
Encyclopedia-contain full coverage of information
about an area of knowledge
Indeyes-are complitions on information, generally
arranged either alphabetically or numerically
Chronologies/timeline-summerize the advancement
of an event or happening by supplying brief
Handbook/manuals-containing facts about a
specific subject or interactions that can be used to
accomplish something
Directriones-contain an organized list of people and
organizations. Find info such as
addres,phone,numbers etc.
ONLINE SOURCES
Blogs,websites,online articles,online journal,and
any websites a writer could find online +
images,podcast
PRINT MEDIA
- form of mass that media delivers news and
information through printed publications.
-one should be litrate to read the information
provided
NON-PRINT MEDIA
-electronic media refers to that form of mass
media,which creates deadlines and access mas and
informationed through electronic energy.
-literacy is not the primary requirement as anyone
can watch their information
DEADLINE
Print
-deadline exist in relation to the collect of mass
Non print
-no such deadline, news can be updated sometimes
LIVE DISCUSSION
Print
-not possible
Non print
-possible
COVERAGE
print
-comperatively less
Non print
-more
LANGUAGE
Print
-reader-friendly
Non print
-viewer-friendly
UPDATINGS
Print
-periodical
Non print
-frequent
SUMMARY
 Short account of the central ideas of a text
 A synthesis of the key ideas of a piece of
writing,restated in your own words

Summary are not a place for

 Opinion
 Background knowledge
 Personal information

ONLY MAJOR IDEAS AND NECESSARY

INFORMATION SHOULD GO INTO A SUMMARY

Main ideas and key points

 The main idea is what text about
 Key points are argument or information that is
used to support the main idea
 Key points may be developed or elaborated
with supporting details
 Your summary should only include main ideas
and key points,with supporting details
LINE AND NON- LINEAR

Line- Linear text refers to traditional text that

requires to be read from the beginning to the
end. This type of text has an order or sequence;
it’s typically the author of the text who decides
the order of the text or its reading path.
Generally, texts printed on
paper,essays,textbooks are considered and
examples as linear texts.

Non-linear-Non-linear text refers to the text

that does not need to be read from the
beginning to the end. Non-linear text is a text
combined with visual elements. There are
multiple reading paths (the reading is not
sequential). They are determined by the reader.
Pictures,graphs,graphic organizers are non
linear text.