Annotating & Sources
A ____________ source is written or created by someone who experienced the event first hand. Example - Anne Frank's diary.
What is primary?
Summarizing is one way to avoid _____________, or taking the words/ideas of someone else and passing them off as your own.
What is plagiarizing/plagiarism?
A paraphrase presents written or spoken content in different words for the purpose of making the meaning _____________ to understand.
What is clearer or easier?
____________ notes are a form of note-taking that splits your notes into three main sections: notes taken during class, cues (questions/main ideas) written after class, and a summary.
What is Cornell?
A _________ is the specific area of study that a student will focus their college career on, following a program planned out by the college
What is major?
A _________________ source is written by non-participants of the event and often synthesize or summarize primary sources.
What is secondary?
A good summary includes only the _____________.
What is main points/main ideas/key points?
Sometimes a paraphrase can be ____________ than an original because it contains explanations for difficult words and concepts
What is longer?
An important part of taking notes is _________, or spending at least ten minutes every week reviewing all previous notes.
What is reviewing?
A cumulative _________ is the average of all of your course grades from every semester you’ve taken so far. A term ________ is the average of your grades from one specific semester.
___________ is any action that deliberately interacts with a text to enhance the reader's understanding of, recall of, and reaction to the text. This involves making notes on or marking up a text with one's thoughts, questions, or realizations while reading
What is annotating?
A summary should be ____________ than the original text.
What is shorter?
One way to paraphrase is to __________ of the text by varying the opening, changing the order of sentences, lengthening or shortening sentences, etc.
What is change the structure?
______________ are strategies or things you do before reading.
What is pre-reading strategies?
A _______________ is the description of the course objectives, requirements, and grade policies for a specific class.
What is syllabus?
While annotating, you might write comments or questions in the ___________ of the text.
What is margins?
__________________ should not be included in a summary.
What is minor details, opinions, interpretations (answers will vary)?
When paraphrasing, you may replace keywords within the sentences with ___________ or phrases with similar meanings.
What is synonyms?
One pre-reading strategy is activating prior _____________, which could include writing your thoughts or opinions on the text before you start reading.
What is knowledge?
____________ are classes that aren’t specifically required for a student’s major and aren’t gen eds.
What is electives?
A ___________ is a secondary source as it is the story of a person's life written by someone else.
What is biography?
Summarize this: Illiteracy is a problem in many of the world’s poorest countries. Even in wealthier nations like the United States, many children struggle with reading and writing. But in 19 cities across the country, the volunteers of Experience Corps are helping youngsters learn to read. The volunteers, all over 50, work with students in low-income areas.
Answers will vary.
Paraphrase the following: The student requested that the professor excuses her absence, but the professor refused.
Answers will vary.
Another pre-reading strategy is to establish a ___________ for reading. It is important to know both why YOU were assigned the reading and why the AUTHOR wrote the text.
What is purpose?
You can expect to have ____________ hours of out-of-class assignments/reading per week, per class.
What is 3-5?