Managing Your Time and Thinking Critically (6 - 7)
Being Engaged in Learning (8)
Learning To Study, Comprehend, and Remember (10)
Writing and Speaking Effectively (12)
Reading to Learn from College Textbooks (9)
100
Thoughtful consideration of the information, ideas, arguments you encounter; in essence, a search for truth.
What is critical thinking?
100
Learning by participation, such as listening critically, discussing what you are learning, and writing about it.
What is active learning?
100
Various methods or tricks to aid memory, including acronyms, acrostics, rhymes or songs, and visualization.
What is mnemonics?
100
A short statement that clearly defines the purpose of the paper.
What is a thesis statement?
100
A previewing method that involves making a list of terms and definitions from the reading, then dividing them into smaller clusters of five, seven, or nine, to more effectively learn the material.
What is chunking?
200
Putting off doing a task or an assignment.
What is procrastination?
200
Note taking method containing a wide left hand recall column
What is the Cornell Format?
200
A review sheet with words and visual elements that jog the memory to help you recall information more easily.
What is a mind map?
200
Writing that helps you first discover what you want to say.
What is exploratory writing?
200
Branches of knowledge that investigate human beings, their culture, and their self-expression
What are the Humanities?
300
Independence
What is autonomy?
300
The length of time after which you befin to forget newly introduced information
What is 24 hours?
300
Understanding the why and how behind the details of information.
What is deep learning.
300
Writing that is "published", meaning that others can read it.
What is explanatory writing?
300
A preview strategy of drawing a wheel or branching structure to show relationships between main ideas and secondary ideas of a subject
What is mapping?
400
Reason and evidence brought together in support of a claim
What is an argument?
400
A person who prefers to learn information by doing, practice, experience, rather than by listening or reading
What is a kinesthetic learner?
400
The type of memory (procedural, semantic, episodic) used to retain information.
What is long-term memory?
400
Preparing to write by filling your mind with information from other sources; generally considered the first stage of exploratory writing.
What is Prewriting?
400
A paragraph-length summary of the methods and major findings of an article in a scholarly journal.
What is an abstract?
500
Faulty Reasoning
What is a logical fallacy?
500
Formal statement of course requirements and procedures, a course outline provided by instructors
What is a syllabus?
500
A verse in which certain letters of each word or line form a message, such as "Every Good Boy Does Fine" which stands for the piano treble clef line notes E, G,B, D, F.
What is an acrostic?
500
Evidence in support of something.
What is testimony?
500
An active reading strategy of making marks in the text by underlining, highlighting, and writing margin notes or annotations.