Category: The P.O.W.E.R. Method
Eskills for Success
Critical Reading Skills
Grammar Tenses
PARAPHRASING POINTERS
100

This five-letter acronym represents the key steps in this process-oriented strategy for approaching a writing task.

What is P.O.W.E.R.?

100

These skills are personal attributes and social abilities that affect how people interact, communicate, and work with others.

What are soft skills?

100

This reading strategy involves reading left to right, line by line, and every word.

What is Reading Line by Line (and every word)?

100

This auxiliary verb, or its Spanish equivalent haber, is used with the past participle to form all perfect tenses.

What is "to have"?

100

The process of restating a text or passage in your own words while maintaining its original meaning.

What is paraphrasing?

200

This step involves rewriting to improve a document's content and structure, potentially moving or deleting entire paragraphs.

What is Revise?

200

Coding, accounting, and machinery operation are examples of these teachable, job-specific abilities.

What are hard skills?

200

This is the reading strategy used for finding the general meaning or "gist".

What is Skimming?

200

The past participle for the Spanish verb hacer (to make) is this word, ending in -cho.

What is hecho?

200

Paraphrasing requires ________ to properly restructure sentences and express ideas in a new way.

What is a deep understanding of the source material?

300

Creating an outline or a mind map to arrange your ideas logically is the primary action in this stage.

What is Organize?

300

Soft skills are primarily acquired through life experience, social interactions, and self-development.

What is "how soft skills are acquired"?

300

This type of reading strategy involves looking for specific information or details.

What is Scanning?

300

This perfect tense refers to an action that was completed before another action in the past.

What is Past Perfect?

300

In academic writing, paraphrasing is a fundamental skill used to avoid this serious academic offense.

What is plagiarism?

400

This stage is where you refine your work by correcting grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

What is Edit?

400

The measurement of _______ skills is objective, often done through tests, exams, or demonstrations.

What is the measurement of hard skills?

400

When critically reading, this strategy means you should not "accept" or agree with the information simply because it was written by a scholar or assigned by an instructor.

What is Don't take information at face value?

400

This Spanish past participle ending is seen in words like comprado and cantado.

What is -ado?

400

This academic skill involves condensing a longer text into a shorter one, capturing its fundamental meaning.

What is summarizing?

500

This benefit of the method is achieved by emphasizing preparation before you even begin to draft.

What is preventing writer's block?

500

Because they are highly versatile, soft skills are highly transferable across different jobs and industries.

What is the transferability of soft skills?

500

This skill is necessary to understand topics and concepts more deeply, digging below the surface.

What is Critical Thinking?

500

The English example "By next year, I will have graduated" illustrates this tense, which indicates an action that will be completed before a certain point in the future.

What is Future Perfect?

500

A well-crafted summary uses this and refrains from personal viewpoints.

What is original phrasing?