Summary
Highlights
Introduction00:00:00
Welcome to the first English 1 class for Cyberdefense. The goal is to comprehend specific texts related to the field, starting with simple concepts and progressing to more complex ones.
Paratextual Elements00:00:55
Paratextual elements, everything surrounding the text itself, help anticipate the reading. These include covers, abstracts, prologues, titles, author information, foot notes, illustration and graphics.
Types of Paratexts00:01:37
Paratexts are divided into iconic (images, illustrations) and verbal (titles, subtitles, indexes). They serve as guides and help generate hypotheses about the text's content.
Exercise and Application00:03:02
The first assignment involves identifying paratextual elements in a selected text and hypothesizing about its content. An autoevaluation with answers will be available.
Text Selection00:03:55
The selected text contains many paratextual elements to facilitate this exercise, even though it is 12 pages long.