Metacognition
The process of choosing a strategy before you begin
What is planning?
Uses bullets and sub bullets
What is the outline method of note-taking?
Getting ideas out on paper before taking the exam.
What is a brain dump?
Hooks the reader and summarizes the paper
What is the introduction?
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What is the Online Writing Lab
Checking to see if your strategy is effective.
What is monitoring?
Best used to show how topics relate or are connected
What are mindmaps?
Spreading out studying over a period of time.
What is spaced practice?
Tells what the paragraph will be about.
What is the topic sentence?
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Who are the Student Success Coordinators
Looking at test results, grades, and feedback so as not to make the same mistakes again.
What is evaluating?
Method that uses skimming, questioning, and reciting notes
What is the SQ3R method?
Switching between topics as you study.
What is interleaving?
Makes an arguable claim.
What is a thesis statement?
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What are tutors
Actions you take in order to help you learn.
What is regulation?
The bottom portion of the Cornell notes
What is the summary section?
Using specific examples to understand abstract ideas.
What is concrete examples?
Place to submit paper for feedback.
What is the OWL (Online Writing Lab)?
Time to go and meet with your professor to get help
What are office hours?
This is when metacognition should take place.
What is before, during, and after?
Optimal time to rewrite your notes after lecture.
What is within 24 hours?
What is retrieval?
Copying someone else's ideas and taking credit for it.
What is plagiarizing?
Helps with specific research needs
What is a reference librarian?