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Common examples for transcriptions outside academia are the proceedings of a court hearing such as a criminal trial (by a court reporter) or a physician's recorded voice notes (medical transcription). This article focuses on transcription in linguistics.
The Association of College and Research Libraries defines information literacy as a "set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning".
Related terms are media and information literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, multiliteracies and metaliteracy. Transliteracy is a unifying framework rather than a replacement of existing literacies. It considers "movement across" which requires a range of capabilities.
An index term used to identify a record in a database. It can consist of a word, phrase, or alphanumerical term. It can describe the content of the record or be an arbitrary code. When a descriptor is descriptive, it can be an effective search parameter. Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is the translation of a text done by translating each word separately without analysing how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence. [1] In translation theory, another term for literal translation is metaphrase (as opposed to paraphrase for an analogous translation).
Historically, "information literacy" has largely been seen from the relatively top-down, organisational viewpoint of library and information sciences. [17] However the same term is also used to describe a generic "information literacy" skill. [17] The modern digital age has led to the proliferation of information spread across the Internet.
Digital literacy combines both technical and cognitive abilities; it consists of using information and communication technologies to create, evaluate, and share information. [ 1 ] Digital literacy initially focused on digital skills and stand-alone computers, but the advent of the internet and social media use has shifted some of its focus to ...
Abortive transcription, the generation of very short RNA transcripts which are not used and rapidly degraded; Bacterial transcription, the generation of RNA transcripts of the genetic material in bacteria; Eukaryotic transcription, the process of copying the genetic information stored in DNA into RNA in eukaryotes