{"id":2252,"date":"2009-05-01T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2012-04-23T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T01:29:13","slug":"word-of-the-day-contextomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2252","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: contextomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you writing a research paper? Please avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Contextomy\">contextomy<\/a>, which is distorting meaning by quoting of context. You can read more about it in the 2005 article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/mcs.sagepub.com\/cgi\/reprint\/27\/4\/511\">Contextomy: the art of quoting out of context<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Media, Culture &amp; Society<\/em>, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 511-522).<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding unintended contextomy may be as simple as making sure you understand the original text of the sources you&#8217;re using for your paper. When you encounter words you don&#8217;t understand, look them up using:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your favorite print dictionary (We have several in the Library!),<\/li>\n<li>Google (search for define:&lt;your word here&gt;, <em>e.g.<\/em>, <strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">define:contextomy<\/span><\/strong>), or<\/li>\n<li>your favorite online dictionary (We link to several at <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.uww.edu\/dictionaries\">http:\/\/libguides.uww.edu\/dictionaries<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And if you are interested in growing your vocabulary one word a day, the <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/dictionary.oed.com\/entrance.dtl\">OED (<em>Oxford English Dictionary<\/em>) online<\/a> has a <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/dictionary.oed.com\/services\/rss-feed.html\">Word of the Day<\/a> RSS feed for you, or you can click to get a random word every time you visit the site!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you writing a research paper? Please avoid contextomy, which is distorting meaning by quoting of context. You can read more about it in the 2005 article &#8220;Contextomy: the art of quoting out of context&#8221; (Media, Culture &amp; Society, vol. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1893,119,1892,1891],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-for-research","tag-contextomy","tag-databases","tag-definitions","tag-dictionaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}