Elements of terminology

Cast members of the play "White's Lies" pose for this photograph. Here used to represent a dominant anthropological group. Credit: Cristina V.

The course objective is to provide students with the elements of terminology. At the completion of the course, a student should have a well-rounded knowledge of terminology, definitions, semantics, and pragmatics. Each applies to scientific or cultural terms.

The course is built upon the ongoing research performed by linguists around the world and here at Wikiversity.

In line with the Wikiversity ideal of learning by doing are several participatory activities.

The course content is layered from a secondary education level, which benefits from the Wikipedia project, through the university level with inclusion of research, some of which is here at Wikiversity.

The course carries an invitation to the primary level learner or teacher.

Prerequisites

A working knowledge of English is beneficial. Additional learning resources involving other languages are included.

Completion levels

This course is dynamic in the sense that lectures already exist and are being expanded. Quizzes for each lecture are being created. The course becomes longer and involves more learning and resources as it expands. It is to be limited only by the number of resources and activities the student wishes to enjoy. At its maximum expansion, the course is equivalent to a one semester advanced undergraduate course. Original research is included to entice the student, teacher, or participant to enjoy its rewards.

Each component resource has a level of content icon following it that relates to a total number of bytes of approximately 100 kb, a lecture with a rating of C has at least 91 kb with a maximum of about 150 kb:

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  3. Been started, but most of the work is still to be done - 16-30%.
  4. About halfway there. You may help to clarify and expand it - 31-45%.
  5. Almost complete, but you can help make it more thorough - 46-60%.
  6. Ready for testing by learners and teachers. Please begin! 61-75%.
  7. This resource is considered to be ready for use - 76-90%. R
  8. This resource has reached a high level of completion - 91-100%. C

Lectures

Lectures are about individual topics that contribute to our understanding and use of terminology.

  1. Communication
  2. Connotation
  3. Control group
  4. Correctness
  5. Definitions
  6. Dominant group/Relative synonyms
  7. Elements
  8. Elements of terminology
  9. Etymology
  10. Greek terminology
  11. Journalism
  12. Language families
  13. Languages
  14. Latency
  15. Lexicography
  16. Lexicology
  17. Latin terminology
  18. Linguistics
  19. Literature
  20. Logic
  21. Metadefinitions
  22. Notations
  23. Ontology
  24. Phonetics
  25. Phonology
  26. Phrases
  27. Pragmatics
  28. Proof of concept
  29. Radiation astronomy C
  30. Reasoning
  31. Rigorous definition
  32. Scientific terminology
  33. Semantics
  34. Semiotics
  35. Syntactics
  36. Terminology
  37. Theory of definitions
  38. Truth
  39. Two-word terms
  40. Universal English pronunciation
  41. Universals
  42. Universal translators
  43. Validity
  44. Words

Articles

Articles contain applications of various components of semantics and terminology to specific research topics.

  1. Dominant group/Synonymous definition
  2. Dominant group/Genus differentia definition
  3. Dominant group/Lexical definition
  4. Dominant group/Relative synonyms
  5. Dominant group/Theoretical definition
  6. Dominant group/Rigorous definition

Laboratories

A laboratory is a special activity for you to experience aspects of terminology.

Lessons

Lessons give the students an opportunity to decide various situations and positions, and to learn about different fields.

  1. ADempiere Application Dictionary
  2. Dominant group/Anthropology/Term test
  3. Dominant group/Metagenome/Term test
  4. Dominant group/Sociology/Term test
  5. Greek and Roman military traditions

Problem sets

Each problem set focuses on a terminology puzzle with up to five problems for you to solve, or challenges for you to meet or exceed.

Quizzes

Quizzes are upon the content of lectures, articles and lessons for this course, but include a few from other courses where understanding of terminology is important.

  1. Communication/Quiz
  2. Connotation/Quiz
  3. Control group/Quiz
  4. Correctness/Quiz
  5. Definitions/Quiz
  6. Dominant group/Quiz
  7. Elements/Quiz
  8. Elements of terminology/Quiz
  9. Etymology/Quiz
  10. Greek terminology/Quiz
  11. Journalism/Quiz
  12. Language families/Quiz
  13. Languages/Quiz
  14. Latency/Quiz
  15. Lexicography/Quiz
  16. Lexicology/Quiz
  17. Latin terminology/Quiz
  18. Linguistics/Quiz
  19. Literature/Quiz
  20. Logic/Quiz
  21. Metadefinition/Quiz
  22. Notations/Quiz
  23. Ontology/Quiz
  24. Phonetics/Quiz
  25. Phonology/Quiz
  26. Phrases/Quiz
  27. Pragmatics/Quiz
  28. Proof of concept/Quiz
  29. Radiation astronomy/Quiz
  30. Reasoning/Quiz
  31. Rigorous definition/Quiz
  32. Scientific terminology/Quiz
  33. Semantics/Quiz
  34. Semiotics/Quiz
  35. Syntactics/Quiz
  36. Terminology/Quiz
  37. Theory of definition/Quiz
  38. Truth/Quiz
  39. Two-word terms/Quiz
  40. Universal English pronunciation/Quiz
  41. Universals/Quiz
  42. Universal translators/Quiz
  43. Validity/Quiz
  44. Words/Quiz

Activities

Glossaries

Research

Hypothesis:

  1. Specific terminology elements can be described.

Control groups

This is an image of a Lewis rat. Credit: Charles River Laboratories.

The findings demonstrate a statistically systematic change from the status quo or the control group.

“In the design of experiments, treatments [or special properties or characteristics] are applied to [or observed in] experimental units in the treatment group(s).[1] In comparative experiments, members of the complementary group, the control group, receive either no treatment or a standard treatment.[2]"[3]

Proof of concept

Def. a “short and/or incomplete realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility"[4] is called a proof of concept.

Def. evidence that demonstrates that a concept is possible is called proof of concept.

The proof-of-concept structure consists of

  1. background,
  2. procedures,
  3. findings, and
  4. interpretation.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Klaus Hinkelmann, Oscar Kempthorne (2008). Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume I: Introduction to Experimental Design (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-72756-9. http://books.google.com/?id=T3wWj2kVYZgC&printsec=frontcover.
  2. ↑ R. A. Bailey (2008). Design of comparative experiments. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68357-9. http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521683579.
  3. ↑ "Treatment and control groups, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. May 18, 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
  4. ↑ "proof of concept, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. November 10, 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
  5. ↑ Ginger Lehrman and Ian B Hogue, Sarah Palmer, Cheryl Jennings, Celsa A Spina, Ann Wiegand, Alan L Landay, Robert W Coombs, Douglas D Richman, John W Mellors, John M Coffin, Ronald J Bosch, David M Margolis (August 13, 2005). "Depletion of latent HIV-1 infection in vivo: a proof-of-concept study". Lancet 366 (9485): 549-55. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67098-5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894952/. Retrieved 2012-05-09.

Further reading

External links

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