A-C
Annotated Bibliography: a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources (Purdue OWL)
Citation: a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work. (Guild)
Curate: a member of the clergy engaged as assistant to a vicar, rector, or parish priest. (Dictionary.com)
D-I
Discourse community: A group of people who share both a purpose and meaning of communicating (Haltman)
Inideitifer: a sequence of characters used to identify or refer to a program or an element, such as a variable or a set of data, within it. (Dictionary.com)
Finding Aid: used by researchers to determine whether information within a collection is relevant to their research. (Dictionary.com)
L-N
Lexicon: From the Greek lexikon, meaning a book of language: lexis (word) and legein (speak). We use it to mean words relevant to a field or topics. (Class Powerpoint-iCollege)
Material Culture: refers to the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture (Haltman)
Metadata: a set of data that describes and gives information about other data. (Rose, In Class Lecture 2/9)
O-R
Prownian Analysis: a means 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 (Haltman)
Polysemous: when visual texts are able to carry multiple meanings to address rhetorical situations (Dictionary.com)
Primary Source: provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art (Ithica College Library)
S-Z
Secondary Source: information that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you’re researching (Library of Illinois)
Tagging: attach a label to something (Dictionary.com)
Thesis: a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. (Dictionary.com)
Thick Description: a way of providing cultural context and meaning that people place on actions, words, things, etc (iCollege Classnotes)