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CHAPTER 8
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Get a brief overview of a reading's organization and content.
What is the primary purpose of previewing a reading?
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You must give these to connect all ideas back to the key point or topic sentence.
What is the primary purpose of supporting details in a paragraph?
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What an active learner would do to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What is look for context clues (see pp. 52, 3b)
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One part of a topic sentence is the limited subject; the other part that tells you about the subject is called this.
What is the controlling idea?
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This is a restatement of a reading selection's ideas in your own words that retains the author's meaning.
What is PARAPHRASING? (see pp. 207)
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Activating prior knowledge
What is making predictions about a reading?
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This is the purpose of prewriting, the first step of the writing process.
What is GENERATING IDEAS?
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This prefix means "four"
What is the prefix 'quad'?
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You achieve this in your writing when all your details support your topic sentence.
What is UNITY?
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A brief statement condensing and group an author's ideas.
What is a SUMMARY? (See p.216, 8g)
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An active reader can find the topic and author's specific focus by doing this when previewing an assignment.
What is reading the title and subtitle first?
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This prewriting technique involves making a list of everything you can think of that is associated with your topic.
What is BRAINSTORMING?
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Words that announce meanings, punctuation, examples, contrast, and logic of the passage.
What are different types of context clues? (see chart on pp. 52-53.)
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This problem occurs with the topic sentence when you lack a controlling idea.
What is ANNOUNCING your subject? EX: This is paragraph about my car.
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This common active reading process allows you to keep track of your comprehension and allows you to comment on and react to material.
What is ANNOTATING? (See p. 205)
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Brainstorming, asking questions and trying to answer them and drawing on your own experiences is an example of this.
What is activating background knowledge about a subject?
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This is the one aspect you will not concentrate on when you write your first draft.
What is not concentrating on grammar, spelling and punctuation?
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This direction prefix means 'away.'
What is the prefix 'ab'?
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If your topic sentence can not be further developed, then your topic sentence is this.
What is too specific?
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You must concentrate on these to successfully paraphrase.
What is focusing on IDEAS (instead of words-see p. 208#6 Tip on Effective Paraphrasing).
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Being able to make connections between ideas is an example of this.
What is an example of positive comprehension?
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This is the step in the writing process when you change, add, delete or rearrange whole sections of your paragraph.
What is REVISING a draft?
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This is the term for 'carrying the basic or core meaning of a word.'
What is the term ROOT? (see pp. 60-61)
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Topic sentence: People who drive aggressively. The problem with this topic sentence is that it is said to be this term.
What is INCOMPLETE. (fragment)
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This active reading strategy forces you to decide what is important and distinguish key information from less important material.
What is HIGHLIGHTING? (See p. 202, 8b)
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