Biography codes conventions

Written in third person.
Educating reader on the individual.
Based on facts and true anecdotes about the person.

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Analysing genreCodes and conventions

Different media texts have codes and conventionsThe familiar tools used by media texts to communicate ideas through technical, visual and audio techniques that define their genre and set up audience expectations.

The main genre codes and conventions are:

This is how the story is told in a film or television programme through plot devices, situations, characters and actors associated with specific genres.

^{Magazines and other print texts such as newspapers contain a narrative}

The narrative in magazines and newspapers includes the cover design and all the content, including regular features, horoscopes, readers' letters and advertising.

Websites also have a narrative that grows and builds as the user is navigated from page to page within the website.

On a news site, this could be a breaking news item which is linked through to more in-depth analysis and archive footage. On a magazine-style website, the narrative may build to encourage the user to watch related videos hosted by the same site.

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We also had an issue with our coding getting messy and inconsistent so we setup a convention for course codes to align with the major categories that our courses consists of. We are not super complex so this may seem pretty basic to some but here it is. Our courses are grouped into 7 key areas:

Fundamentals (FU)
Teaching Practices (TP)
Adult Skills (AS)
Components (CO)
Behavior Management (BM)
Webinars (WE)
Wings Leader courses (WL)

Each code is made up of:

“#” + “_” + “two letter code as above + “_” + “short desc for course” See screenshot below.

This allows me to filter and sort quite easily when I am in course management and such. You’ll notice our thumbnails and other course assets are also color coded so we use that as an additional visual strategy for helping users see at a glance how content is organized. Having said that I don’t know if they really grasp it but it at least gives us some standards and design consistency.

We also use a limited number of course categories to keep things organized and simple as shown in the second screen shot.

Hope this help

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File-Naming Conventions

Preliminary Remarks
All file names are case sensitive. All directory names are case sensitive. All file extensions will be lowercase (.html, .txt, .jpg, .gif); author and title codes have uppercase letters (A0014-T001).

Contents

Texts

SGML Text Files:
The filename of an SGML text file is made up of the ftext_code (aka titleid) and a .txt extension, e.g., A0014-T001.txt. The ftext_code is made up of the author code and title number. For the time being, text files are placed in the following directory: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/IWW/texts/textfiles/.

Image Files:
The filename for images for figure tags in SGML texts are made up of the ftext_code (aka titleid), a sequential number, and a .jpg or .gif extension, e.g., A0051-T001-7.jpg. This filename MUST match the filename in the figure tag as such <figure inline="y" sysid="A0051-T001-7.jpg">. For the time being, images associated with text files are placed in the following directory: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/IWW/texts/imagefiles/.
Note: If a portrait appears in the b