Text Information and Media Quiz

Study Notes

A text is anything that communicates a set of meanings to someone observing it.
Examples of texts include: books, magazines, newspapers, movies, paintings, advertisements, maps, and even rooms filled with people.

Serif Fonts: Classic fonts with serifs (small accents) originated from Roman brushstrokes.
Slab Serif Fonts: Bold fonts with large serifs, often used for large-scale marketing materials (billboards, posters).
Sans Serif Fonts: Fonts lacking serifs, becoming popular in the 20th century, often used for modern designs.
Script Fonts: Fonts mimicking cursive handwriting, categorized as either formal or casual.
Handwritten Fonts: Fonts mimicking natural handwriting, lacking the structure of traditional script fonts.

Emphasis: Employ different font sizes, weights, colors, contrasts, and orientations to highlight important information.
Appropriateness: Choose the right font, content, and tone of presentation based on the target audience or event.
Space: Use space strategically to create focus and visibility for elements.
Alignment: Align text to establish symmetry, formality, or a free, casual style.
Consistency: Maintain a consistent look and feel throughout the design by using a limited number of colors, font styles, and design elements.

Formatted text is text presented in a specific style.
Formatting data can be qualitative (like font family) or quantitative (like font size, color).
The purpose of formatting is to enhance the readability and understanding of information.

Unformatted text is plain text without formatting information.
It only contains printable characters, white space, and line breaks.
Unformatted text is often represented in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), a standard character set used in computers.

Hypertext allows linking text to other texts for non-sequential navigation.
The World Wide Web (WWW) combines computer networks (Internet) and Hypertext MarkUp Language (HTML) for easy access to information.
Hypertext uses "links" that users click on to navigate to different parts of information in a non-linear fashion.

All word processing applications allow you to: enter and edit text, save, print, cut/copy/paste, and check spelling.
Cut and Copy: Cut removes highlighted text, while Copy stores it in memory.
Paste: Inserts copied or cut text into a different area of the document.
Formatting Text: Enhance readability through: font type and size changes, text alignment, bolding, underlining, italicizing, and creating bullet points or numbered lists.
Other common features of word processors include: find and replace, import graphics, headers and footers, and page numbering.