Monday, April 20, 2009

Apr21 Mindmap (CRCB11 Advanced Strategies)

Apr21 Exercise (CRCB11 Advanced Strategies)

CRCB C11 Exercises

Exercise 11J
Outlines pp.368

Use this textbook’s table of contents to answer the following questions.

1. What information is being presented in this outline?

An overview of the textbook – the types of information to be taught

2. Using the table of contents, list two topics covered in Chapter 4, “Managing Your Reading Time.”

1) What is efficient reading?
2) Becoming a more efficient reader

Apr21 Summary (CRCB11 Advanced Strategies)

CRCB C11 Summary

This chapter authors often use visual aids to help their readers better understand the information they are presenting. Visual information reinforces and supplements reading material. Types of visual aids include mind maps, outlines, charts, diagrams, graphs, illustrations, photographs, and time lines. The type of information being conveyed determines what type of visual aid an author will use. Learning how to read visuals will help understand and remember the textual information they illustrate.
An effective reading and study strategy is to make own visual aids. To create an effective visual aid, you have to recognize the important elements in what reading and be able to prioritize and organize them in a logical and useful format. It will quickly obvious how well know the material, you can’t draw a diagram or devise a table if you don’t understand what you have read or heard. In many instances, an effective visual will save from taking as many as many notes from notes from text or lectures.

When reading about a confusing subject of being taught about a confusing subject just words won’t always get the point across. Visual aids play such a huge role in the learning process and when making presentations. An example when a visual aid makes learning easier is when learning about the digestive system one can first explain in words but you can only get so much from words, but seeing a picture of the digestive tract it makes the word so much more clear and easier to understand. When presenting in a front of colleagues or in front of your peers’ visual aid proves to be extremely helpful in either getting your argument across or your point across.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Apr14 Mindmap (TFY C11, Induction)

Apr14 Summary (TFY C11, Induction)

TFY, chapter 11 Summary

This chapter discusses a number of the methods that have traditionally been used to learn about the whole from a study of its parts. They include sensory observation, enumeration, analogical reasoning, pattern recognition, causal reasoning, and statistical reasoning.

Induction is a major kind of reasoning process in which a conclusion is drawn from particular cases. And a preliminary conclusion derived from inductive reasoning is called a hypothesis. All of the “conclusions” given in the preceding examples were prematurely drawn; their sampling was insufficient to warrant their conclusions. For example, a preschooler might conclude that dolphins are fish because they live in water and swim as fish do. After that we have to be continually willing to modify and refine our hypotheses depending on the feedback we receive. Perhaps, Adolescents might have heard that dolphins are mammals. They could test this hypothesis by identifying the definition of mammal and testing whether it applies to dolphins.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Apr14 Mindmap (CRCB1 Reading)

Apr14 Exercise (CRCB1 Reading)

CRCB C1 Exercises

Exercise 1a
pp.9

Read each of the following statements and respond to them based on your current reading habits. In the space provided, write yes if the statement correctly describes you, or no if it does not.

1. I know that concentration is a skill that can be learned.
NO

2. I have a study area, complete with study supplies, and this area is used only for studying.
NO

3. I try to concentrate as I read, but my mind usually drifts to other things, such as bills I have to pay or people I have to call.
YES

4. If I get angry, I am unable to concentrate on my reading.
YES

5. I know how to minimize all distractions.
NO

6. I cannot read unless my house, or study environment, is immaculate.
YES

7. I have a system to let others know when I am reading and that I do not want to be disturbed.
NO

8. I lose concentration easily when I am bored with what I’m reading.
YES

Apr14 Summary (CRCB1 Reading)

CRCB C1 Summary

Reading is an active process based on an active process besides on author’s to convey meaning though the write word and your ability to extract meaning from those words. Keeping a learning journal is also an active learning task. It helps you identify what you understand in a reading assignment and what is still unclear. It can help you to understand how you learn, which learning styles work best for you, and how you can improve those with which you have difficulty. Using learning will help you to identify, analyze and correct reading and leaning difficulties.

Leading is an active process based on an author’s ability to convey meaning through the written word and I ability to extract meaning from those words.
Learning styles and techniques for improving learning ability, Reading is learning Process by using many different strategies your learning styles ability will greatly
Enhanced, these techniques will help you to improve your college reading and learning.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Apr07 Mindmap (CRCB8 Texts)

Apr07 Exercise (CRCB8 Texts)

CRCB C8 Exercises

pp.272

Exercise 8h
Journalists typically omit organizational word clues because they have a limited amount of space for their stories, and they want to reserve as much space as possible for content. Access the following Internet source: www.ABCNEWS.com and pick a story. Print it out, read it, and infer the overall organizational method. Add OWCs that you think would help others identify the overall organizational method, ones the writer might have used if space had not been a constraint.

#1: analysis “was”
#2: definitions/example “But” “meant”
#3: sequence “first” “then”
#4: sequence “process” “after” “for years”
#5: sequence “the first thing” “but”
#6: sequence “also” “the first thing” “then” “also”

1. C
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. A

Apr07 Summary (CRCB8 Texts)

CRCB C8 Summary

The authors usually organize information using certain classic methods or patterns.
Begging able to recognize organizational methods will help understand the ideas in how they are connected t each other, because they will fit into logical patterns already familiar with.
It will also help to remember what you have read, because you are not memorizing facts in isolation, but relating them to each other to form patterns that hold and organize them in your member. A useful way to identify an author’s method of organization is to look for the organization word clues that indicate which patterns using.

It is also important to assess an author’s overall method of organization. Author will frequently use more than one method from paragraph to paragraph to paragraph, but have one overall method for each.