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Library Skills I
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100
An hour before your final exam.
What is the worst time to study?
100
"Rephrasing paragraphs in your own words; reading aloud; underlining or making notes of ideas that stand out for you."
What are good reading comprehension techniques?
100
Goals. Otherwise it's hard to have real direction when you work.
What should you set for yourself so that you know what you want to achieve and when you want to achieve it?
100
"Understand exactly what the question is asking, so you know how to answer it well."
What is understanding the question/topic you have to research?
100
Check over everything before you hand in, to make sure everything is free of careless errors and mistakes.
What is evaluating your work/ proofreading?
200
Mnemonics. "Material that is difficult to master can be organized by finding the key words in each point, noting the first letter, and arranging the letters into a sense or nonsense word (the sillier, the better)."
What is a useful studying strategy where you use made-up phrases to remember information?
200
"If you organize your materials as you proceed through a course, you will retrieve information with greater ease later."
What are some benefits of organizing your materials?
200
An agenda. Using an agenda gives your brain more room to remember your material.
What is a useful tool for organizing yourself that allows you to not have to remember your schedule just in your head?
200
"They can help you to search and use collections, catalogues and databases. If you know how to access different types of services in libraries, you'll get better resources and be a more efficient researcher."
How can a librarian help you?
200
Wikipedia may be fast and convenient, but it hardly ever offers the level of specificity and expertise academic sources offer.
What is a downside to using Wikipedia?
300
If you actually enjoy the course and can consider the information to be useful to you.
How is information more easily remembered?
300
"Ask your text good questions and it will yield good answers." Read actively and critically and you will reap the best information.
What is being a good reader?
300
Concise, coherent, synthesized, and informative.
What are some characteristics of well-taken notes?
300
Encyclopedia.
What is the best way to research when you have a broad topic but need to begin to get a little more specific?
300
List phrases for your topic, using the title, author, and subject to direct your thinking.
What is using key words?
400
Flash cards. "In printing study cards, the student is using kinetic energy (energy in motion), thus making the impression stronger on the brain, and the student will be able to use the cards for overlearning."
What is another great study strategy involving writing the word and its definition?
400
"Develop techniques and strategies for compensating for possible differences between your learning style and your instructor’s teaching style."
What is knowing your learning style?
400
Anxiety makes you skip over parts of questions. Read every word carefully.
Why is it beneficial to calm/slow down when taking a test?
400
Primary sources
What is the best research tool to use when you need authentic, direct information about your topic?
400
Make sure the material you found is really valid and can be verified in more than one source.
What is checking your sources?
500
10% of read information.
What is the amount of information you remember from reading alone?
500
"Share the load of reading and studying with other students – you will learn better by teaching them, and you will be exposed to ideas you didn’t come up with on your own."
How is joining a study group beneficial?
500
Caffeine. It makes you jittery and unfocused.
What shouldn't you use as a replacement for protein and complex carbohydrates?
500
Write where you found the source and why it's reliable.
What is annotating a source?
500
"In your research, when you copy words from a source, put quotation marks around them so that you do not forget that they were not your own words. When your notes include an idea, write in parentheses whether it is the source's idea or your own idea. Check your final text against your notes. Make sure that you did not accidentally use wording or other content without giving credit for it."
What are some ways of avoiding accidental plagiarism?