Reading Skills
What is the first step in reading college texts?
Previewing
What’s a complex sentence?
A complete thought connected by a subordinator to an incomplete thought
What structure should you use when you write an essay?
The martini glass
How can you avoid plagiarism?
By citing the source right after your direct / indirect /hybrid quotation and in your reference page
What is an annotation?
One part is to give the author's perspective. The other part is to give your perspectives, thoughts, feelings, and connections.
What is not a main idea?
An example, numbers or quotations
What’s the punctuation rule of compound sentences?
Comma before the FANBOYS
What are the 5 steps of the writing process?
Understanding the prompt
Brainstorming /Planning
Researching
Writing
Editing
Mention 3 ways to check if an article is a valid source for your academic paper.
It is not commercial;
It is written by an author with credentials;
It has references.
What Harvard strategy helps you think of a text deeply?
Identity- action - reaction
What's a reference question?
The question that asks what key noun the pronoun refers to.
What’s the punctuation rule of complex sentences?
Subordinator in the beginning comma in the middle unless the subordinator is in the middle
What should an expository outline have?
Thesis statement and three body paragraphs. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence, explanation, reasons, examples, results and research question.
When is something worth quote?
When it proves your point; or
it strengthens your argument; or
it clearly says what you want to say.
What should we connect our thoughts with in literary texts?
Themes
What's the Cornell system and how we use it?
It's the system we use to take notes of a reading. We write the main ideas on the left and the details on the right. We only chose the details that explain the main ideas. We organize the details with bullet points, and we use symbols and abbreviations.
Connect those two sentences with whom: I danced with a boy. He is from Germany.
The boy with whom I danced with is from Germany.
What is the last page of an essay called?
Works cited page
How can you insert a quote in your essay?
In three ways: direct, indirect, and hybrid. The best way to synthesize and contrast the evidence.
What is the 'wallpaper mistake'?
You use too much evidence, so your voice disappears.
What are the essential parts of a critical response?
Your opinion and thoughts about what the writer said. Quotations from the reading to indicate what the writer said and evidence from various sources cited properly.
Give 3 agreement rules
1. The verb has to agree with the subject in number
2. Gerund takes singular verb
3. Uncountable nouns take singular verb
What should an argumentative paragraph be fully developed and supported?
A topic sentence that includes your opinion and the key idea of the paragraph; your explanation with examples; the opposite viewpoint-concession-refutation; reasons and results. evidence cited in the MLA system.
How would you give evidence in an essay according to the MLA system?
Transition phrase + "copy-paste the sentence" (author's last name, year of publication).
and full citation in the Works cited page.
How can you insert evidence in your critical response without saying: Source A says ... or The reading shows ...
Research in neuroscience shows ...
Economic studies suggest that ....
From a social-psychological perspective, ...