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WGU Literature Ethic
WGU Literature Ethics terms
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This is a colloquial term, sometime euphemism, used to denote the distortion or complete ignorance of fact, ignoring the conventions of grammar or language, or the changing of an established fact that an artist may undertake in the name of art. | Artistic license |
- is the requirement to acknowledge or credit the author of a work which is used or appears in another work. Attribution is required by most copyright and copyleft licenses. | Attribution |
This is often considered the most basic of requirements made by a license, as it allows an author to accumulate a positive reputation that partially repays their work and prevents others from claiming fraudulently to have produced the work. | Attribution |
This is a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation. | Bias |
A term that describes the rejection of ideas based on preconceptions rather than facts. | Bias |
This is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations. | Censorship |
Preventing broadcast of an article thought to be damaging is considered... | Censorship |
This is a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Citation |
mention: make reference to. quote: repeat a passage from… | Cite |
This is a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work. | Copyright |
A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions. aspersion: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name. | Defamation |
Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature). Anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks. Record in detail. a written account of ownership or obligation. | Document |
Confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence. | Documentation |
Intangible property that is the result of creativity (such as patents or trademarks or copyrights). | Intellectual property |
A false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person. Print slanderous statements against. The written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks. | Libel |
Visual media= slander or libel | Libel |
Speech = slander or libel | Slander |
Print -= slander or libel | Libel |
Photographs = slander or libel | Libel |
Approval to do something. License: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization. | Permissions |
A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work. The act of this; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own. | Plagiarism |
Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause. | Propaganda |
Dissemination of information to manipulate public opinion. | Propaganda |
Words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another. | Slander |