NOTE-TAKING
PRESENTATION
LISTENING TO LECTURES
DISCUSSION
MISCELLANEOUS
100
A strategy that helps you easily see how items are similar or different. You can organize your notes by listing similarities and differences for each item.
What is noting comparisons and contrasts?
100
A presentation strategy that allows the speaker to take his or her time by combining sentences and words with the same idea together. Some examples are: clauses, transitions, and phrases.
What is pacing your speech with thought groups?
100
A listening strategy that helps you think about the relationship between ideas in a lecture while you listen.
What is predicting causes and effects?
100
"What's one idea we can all agree on?" "So, can we all agree on...?" "So, it sounds like we decided...?" These are all phrases that indicate what kind of discussion strategy?
What is compromising and reaching a consensus?
100
A formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or class, in which opposing arguments are put forward.
What is a debate?
200
A strategy of using arrows to show the relationship between two points or situations.
What is showing cause and effect relationships?
200
An illustration used to make your presentation more interesting and much easier to understand. You may include text that is at least 20 points in size and complementing color contrasts.
What is using effective visuals?
200
Language professors and presenters use to signal similaries and differences. Some examples: "Similarly..." and "On the other hand..."
What is comparison and contrast?
200
Phrases you can use to help you go back to your original idea and expand on it. (Sometimes during a class discussion, you may think of something else you'd like to say after your turn has passed.)
What is expressions for expanding your own ideas?
200
A kind of presentation that involves a five- to eight-minute speech with a characteristically short preparation time of one to seven minutes.
What is an impromptu speech?
300
Writing down the information presented by the professor, using indents to signify relationships between ideas.
What is numbered lists?
300
A presentation strategy that keeps your audience engaged. It requires the use of facial expressions, body movements, and hand gestures.
What is effective non-verbal signals?
300
A strategy professors use during lectures to show ideas he or she doesn't say but wishes to emphasize. Some examples are using hand gestures like counting out points on his/her fingers and writing on the board.
What is non-verbal signals that indicate something is important?
300
Sometimes during class discussions, students bring up ideas that are not related to the "official" conversation. This strategy fixes the problem with phrases such as the following: "Can we go back to...?" and "Maybe we should get back to the question."
What is keeping the discussion on topic?
300
An item of illustrative matter, such as a film, slide, or model, designed to supplement written or spoken information so that it can be understood more easily
What is a visual aid?
400
A process that will help students remember more from the lectures and create more effective study tools for class. After a lecture, students take time to read over their notes and identify main ideas and key points with highlighting, underscoring, or other symbols.
What is annotating your notes after lectures?
400
A time presenters leave aside towards the end of a presentation to invite the audience to speak.
What is opening the floor and clarifying audience questions?
400
Professors use this strategy when bringing up new words OR familiar words and phrases that have a different meaning than what the student knows.
What is signaling a definition?
400
The use of expressions such as "That's a good question..." or "Let me think about that for a moment..." to buy time while the presenter puts his/her thougths together.
What is pausing to collect your thoughts?
400
What two things do scientists believe impacts a person's personality or characteristic?
Genes and the environment.
500
A note-taking method that arranges your notes so that you can easily review information later and study for exams. The method requires you to divide the page into three sections by drawing a line from the top to bottom and another line from the left to right. It provides space to note questions, reminders, summaries, and lecture language.
What is using a split-page format?
500
Ending your presentation with a strong conclusion that may be a final thought, a recommendation, a prediction, a challenge, or a question. An example is, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
What is delivering a take-home message?
500
A strategy professors and presenters use to support ideas by citing the source of a piece of information. The cited information may be spoken in the exact words or rephrased.
What is paraphrasing and quoting sources?
500
People engaged in a discussion should do this in order to understand what the speaker means by what he or she says. An example is, "When you say that boys and girls are different, do you mean that they can never be alike?"
What is paraphrasing the ideas of others?
500
A type of street art tagged on the walls of buildings without permission from the owners.
What is graffiti?
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