Glossary
- Abstract
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A brief summary of a text.
- Anthropomorphism
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When human traits are assigned to a non-human actor/object.
- Click-bait
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Source in which the purpose is to attract your attention and prompt you to click on links to web pages that might be selling something or promoting fake news.
- CRAAP
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Evaluation tool that helps determine a source’s quality.
- Critique
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Constructive way to explore, interrogate, and evaluate a text.
- Descriptive Writing
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Writing that describes or summarizes something.
- Egalitarianism
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The belief that all people are equal and deserve the same rights.
- Evidence-informed nursing
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When practice and decision-making are informed by best available evidence from a variety of sources and combined with practitioner expertise, patient preference, and local context.
- Information literacy
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Having knowledge and skill related to various types of knowledge.
- Peer-review
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A process associated with journals in which a submitted manuscript passes through a process of being reviewed by experts before being accepted for publication.
- Positionality
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How you position yourself in relation to a topic, informed by your identity.
- Reading effectively
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Reading effectively.
- Red herrings
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Sentences that distract the reader from your main topic.
- Reflective Practice
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Exploring and analyzing a clinical experience.
- Reflective Writing
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Thinking deeply and critically about an experience.
- Rigorous
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Complete, sound, thorough and carefully constructed.
- Semantics
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The study of language/words used and the associated meanings.
- Synthesis
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Combining two or more ideas and texts in writing.
