Teaching and Research Aptitude

Phronesis is a Greek word for a type of wisdom or intelligence, which is a common topic of discussion in philosophy.

Digital reformatting is the process of converting analogue materials into a digital format as a surrogate of the original. The digital surrogates perform a preservation function by reducing or eliminating the use of the original. Digital reformatting is guided by established best practices to ensure that materials are being converted at the highest quality.

Tacit knowledge is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. For example - the ability to speak a language, use algebra, or design or use complex equipment requires all sorts of knowledge that is not always known explicitly, even by expert practitioners, and is difficult or impossible to explicitly transfer to other users.

A zine is most commonly a small circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images usually reproduced via a photocopier.

Agreement or concord happens when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.

Lemmatisation (or lemmatization) in linguistics, is the process of grouping together the different inflected forms of a word so they can be analysed as a single item.

In psycholinguistics, bootstrapping refers to the question of how language acquisition gets started. A child gradually acquires a great deal of interlocking knowledge about the structure and vocabulary of his or her language. It has sometimes been proposed that some specific type of linguistic knowledge can be acquired early, and that this enables the child to analyze words or sentences well enough to acquire further knowledge from them. Metaphorically, this early knowledge would serve as bootstraps by which the child pulls himself or herself up.

A novice is a person new to and inexperienced in a job or situation.