Learning Journal, P139
Exercise 6a, Identifying Major Supporting Details, P180
Your question:
How is it that the pain from a beating does not come until about eight or ten seconds after the stroke?
Major supporting detail: The stroke itself is merely a loud crack and a sort of blunt thud against your backside, numbing you completely.
Your question: Why is a tattoo a bad thing in the white-collar world?
Major supporting detail: You cannot earn power.
Your question: Why didn’t she approve of him?
Major supporting details: A. fell asleep at desk
B. Sniffled all the time
Your question: How does the visitor’s hand feel?
Major supporting detail: It was cool and quite oily and seemed human to me.
Your question: What advantages does the pointed arch offer?
Major supporting detail:
A. Because the sides arc up to a point, weight is channeled down to the ground at a steeper angle, and therefore the arch can be taller.
B. The vault constructed from such an arch also can be much taller than a barrel vault.
Your question: How does the Bacillus subtitles bacterium reproduce?
Major supporting details:
It splits every twenty minutes.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Feb03 Summary (CRCB C5, Main Ideas)
Chapter 5 is about Locating Stated Main Ideas Being able to determine the main idea is like having the answer to a puzzle. In order to achieve this, you must first be able to tell the difference between the general topic and the more specific ones. A topic is the most general idea while a main idea is more specific in covering the idea of the piece of writing, such as food being a topic and fish being a main idea.
The main idea is to understanding your reading. Details which are more specific support and illustrate the main idea like types of unusual foods, tongue, ants, alligator, and kangaroo. Noticing clue words and categorizing ideas helps you to separate examples and other supporting ideas from the larger, main points, so the relationships between ideas become clear. Some main ideas are stated directly in a reading and are easy to identify. Others are implied, and you must infer their meaning from the reading and then restate them in your own words. Implied main ideas and strategies for detecting them will be explored.
In most cases the main idea of the text being presented is going to be found in the introductory paragraph. You will also find a jumper of aid points around the main idea supporting it. The main idea will also be what mostly discuses throughout the body of the paper are. When you have completed read the test skim over what have read.
The main idea is to understanding your reading. Details which are more specific support and illustrate the main idea like types of unusual foods, tongue, ants, alligator, and kangaroo. Noticing clue words and categorizing ideas helps you to separate examples and other supporting ideas from the larger, main points, so the relationships between ideas become clear. Some main ideas are stated directly in a reading and are easy to identify. Others are implied, and you must infer their meaning from the reading and then restate them in your own words. Implied main ideas and strategies for detecting them will be explored.
In most cases the main idea of the text being presented is going to be found in the introductory paragraph. You will also find a jumper of aid points around the main idea supporting it. The main idea will also be what mostly discuses throughout the body of the paper are. When you have completed read the test skim over what have read.
Feb03 Exercise (CRCB C5, Main Ideas)
Learning Journal, P139
Without reading ahead, write down your definitions of the terms main idea, topic, details, major supporting details, and minor supporting details in your journal.
Main Idea: the major point the author makes about the topic.
Topic: a matter dealt with in a text, discourse, or conversation
Details: an individual feature
Major Supporting Details : supporting facts
Minor Supporting Details: descriptions
Exercise 5a, General and Specific Ideas,P141
Circle the most general item in each list. The first one is modeled for you.
1. Saab Audi Mustang cars
2. genetics DNA RNA
3. English history majors
4. gas matter solid liquid
5. Buddhism Sikhism religions Islam
6. control group variables research data
Exercise 5b, Identifying Topics, P142
For each list, think about what the separate items have in common and ask yourself, what is the general subject, or topic, of this list? The first one is modeled for you.
1. Topic: holidays
Labor Day
Fourth of July
Memorial Day
Christmas
2. Topic: Authors
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
T.S. Eliot
Walt Whitman
3. Topic: Puzzles
crossword
riddles
jigsaw
conundrum
4. Topic: health
calories
carbohydrates
fat
protein
5. Topic: Resume
name
education
employment experience
references
6. Topic: Teeth
gingivitis
tarter
periodontal disease
plaque
Without reading ahead, write down your definitions of the terms main idea, topic, details, major supporting details, and minor supporting details in your journal.
Main Idea: the major point the author makes about the topic.
Topic: a matter dealt with in a text, discourse, or conversation
Details: an individual feature
Major Supporting Details : supporting facts
Minor Supporting Details: descriptions
Exercise 5a, General and Specific Ideas,P141
Circle the most general item in each list. The first one is modeled for you.
1. Saab Audi Mustang cars
2. genetics DNA RNA
3. English history majors
4. gas matter solid liquid
5. Buddhism Sikhism religions Islam
6. control group variables research data
Exercise 5b, Identifying Topics, P142
For each list, think about what the separate items have in common and ask yourself, what is the general subject, or topic, of this list? The first one is modeled for you.
1. Topic: holidays
Labor Day
Fourth of July
Memorial Day
Christmas
2. Topic: Authors
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
T.S. Eliot
Walt Whitman
3. Topic: Puzzles
crossword
riddles
jigsaw
conundrum
4. Topic: health
calories
carbohydrates
fat
protein
5. Topic: Resume
name
education
employment experience
references
6. Topic: Teeth
gingivitis
tarter
periodontal disease
plaque
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Feb03 Summary (TFY C3, Facts)
This chapter concerns some of the complexities of the word fact: how facts are determined, how they relate to observations, how facts get confused with inferences, how facts relate to truth and reality, how they relate to language.
A fact is something known with certainty through experience, observation, or measurement that can be objectively demonstrated and verified how that people agree corresponds to reality. This can only be determined over time with repeated feedback and testing. In critical thinking we must evaluate all parts of a situation before coming to a final conclusion. We must observe all that surrounds our argument otherwise how can one come to a educate conclusion. You must not only look for facts that are present but also facts that are not there, narrowing down what it truth from foe. When taking observation you must know the difference between a reliable observation and an unreliable observation. It is also important while collecting all this data to not allow it to sway your judgment because it is an ongoing process, keep an open mind until you have the full picture in front of you.
Facts are not the equivalent of truths or reality, they are best, only our decision about what seems to be most real. Human beings need facts because they need certainties in order to proceed through the world. But we should not forget that human beings are fallible. It is our interpretations of what is real and true.
A fact is something known with certainty through experience, observation, or measurement that can be objectively demonstrated and verified how that people agree corresponds to reality. This can only be determined over time with repeated feedback and testing. In critical thinking we must evaluate all parts of a situation before coming to a final conclusion. We must observe all that surrounds our argument otherwise how can one come to a educate conclusion. You must not only look for facts that are present but also facts that are not there, narrowing down what it truth from foe. When taking observation you must know the difference between a reliable observation and an unreliable observation. It is also important while collecting all this data to not allow it to sway your judgment because it is an ongoing process, keep an open mind until you have the full picture in front of you.
Facts are not the equivalent of truths or reality, they are best, only our decision about what seems to be most real. Human beings need facts because they need certainties in order to proceed through the world. But we should not forget that human beings are fallible. It is our interpretations of what is real and true.
Feb03 Exercise (TFY C3, Facts)
Chapter3 - TFY - Facts Exercise
P94 Chapter Quiz
1. Some facts can be determined by measurements.
True
2. Some facts can be confirmed by the senses, others by records.
False
3. The most reliable facts are those that have been repeatedly confirmed by test over time.
True
4. Facts often consist of obvious details that are seen but not consciously recognized.
True
5. Sometimes what we clam to be fact are untrue because the human perceptions used to determine them are limited and fallible.
True
6. A person educated in critical thinking qualifies statements to reflect probabilities such as it appears that...
True
7. Often it is hard to make a decision because we do not have enough facts.
True
8. The study of many subjects consists of memorizing facts.
True
9. All newspapers can be depended upon as reliable sources of facts about world events.
False
10. An atmosphere that permits disagreements about widely accepted perceptions and belief helps critical thinking to flourish.
True
P94 Chapter Quiz
1. Some facts can be determined by measurements.
True
2. Some facts can be confirmed by the senses, others by records.
False
3. The most reliable facts are those that have been repeatedly confirmed by test over time.
True
4. Facts often consist of obvious details that are seen but not consciously recognized.
True
5. Sometimes what we clam to be fact are untrue because the human perceptions used to determine them are limited and fallible.
True
6. A person educated in critical thinking qualifies statements to reflect probabilities such as it appears that...
True
7. Often it is hard to make a decision because we do not have enough facts.
True
8. The study of many subjects consists of memorizing facts.
True
9. All newspapers can be depended upon as reliable sources of facts about world events.
False
10. An atmosphere that permits disagreements about widely accepted perceptions and belief helps critical thinking to flourish.
True
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