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The document discusses the concepts of prejudice and bias, defining prejudice as an opinion that disregards facts and bias as an unfair personal opinion affecting judgment. It outlines seven forms of bias, including invisibility, stereotyping, and linguistic bias, which illustrate how bias manifests in various contexts. Additionally, it explains the importance of citation in research, emphasizing the need to credit original authors for their ideas and works.

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Prejudice

The document discusses the concepts of prejudice and bias, defining prejudice as an opinion that disregards facts and bias as an unfair personal opinion affecting judgment. It outlines seven forms of bias, including invisibility, stereotyping, and linguistic bias, which illustrate how bias manifests in various contexts. Additionally, it explains the importance of citation in research, emphasizing the need to credit original authors for their ideas and works.

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Prejudice is an opinion or judgment that disregards the facts.

Example:  A prejudice is racism.

 prejudice is liking a person because they have blue eyes.

 prejudice is not liking someone because they don't share your religion.

Bias is an unfair personal opinion that influences your judgment

Example:

 Bias against Trump can be found in certain instances of reporting. An editorial published in The
Washington Post on December 1, 2015 was titled, "Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist."

 Abraham Lincoln accused newspapers in border states of being biased against the South. He
ordered many of them to be shut down

7 Forms of Bias

1. Invisibility: What You don’t see makes a lasting Impression  The most fudamental and oldest
form bias. Women, those with disabilities, gays, and homosexuals continue to be missing from many
of today’s texts.

2. Stereotyping: Shortcuts to Bigotry  Men are portrayed as assertive and successful in their jobs,
but rarely discussed as fathers; and women as caregivers.

3. Imbalance and Selectivity: A Tale Half Told  A text reports that women were given the vote, but
does not discuss work, sacrifices, and even physical abuse suffered by the leaders of the suffrage
movement that won the vote.

4. Unreality: Rose-colored Glasses  Many researchers have noted the tendency of instructional
materials to gloss over unpleasant facts and events in our history.

5. Fragmentation and Isolation: The Parts Are Less than the Whole  Fragmentaton emerges when a
group is physically or visually isolated in the text. Often, racial and ethnic group members are
depicted as interacting only with persons like themselves, isolated from other cultural communities.

6. Linguistic Bias: Words Count  Language can be powerful conveyor of bias, in both blatant and
subtle forms. Linguistic bias can impact race/ethnicity, gender, accents, age, (dis) ability, and sexual
orientation.

7. Cosmetic Bias: Shiny Covers  New cosmetic bias suggests that a text is a bias free, but beyond the
attractive covers, photos, or posters, bias persists. An example is a science textbook that features a
glossy pullout of female scientists but includes precious little narrative on the scentific contributions
of women

 Literary Devices refers to the typical structures used by writers in their works to convey his or her
messages in a simple manner to the readers.
 A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables
of two or more words. 

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually
referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all
rhyme with each other.

What is Citation?

 Citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric


expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic.
Why is it important to cite sources?

 Citing or documenting the sources used in your research serves three purposes: It gives proper
credit to the authors of the words or ideas that you incorporated into your paper

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