Key Terms
Comprehension Skills
Strategies That Help with Specific Subjects and Formulas
Responding Critically to what you Read
Be an Information Literate Reader and Researcher
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original documents including academic journal articles, and scientific studies
What are primary sources?
100
SQ3R
What is survey question read recite review
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Courses required for graduation in a variety of academic fields, including the humanities, social sciences, math, and science
What are general education requirements?
100
Its easy and common to accept or reject an argument according to whether it fits with your...
What is your point of view?
100
Select the most helpful information for your research; familiarize yourself with the library resources
What is mapping out the possibilities?
200
Rapid superficial reading of material to determine central ideas and main elements
What is skimming?
200
Believed there were six types of questions
Who is Benjamin Bloom?
200
Find themes, think critically
What are strategies in social sciences and humanities?
200
Do examples and ideas logically connect?, is there enough evidence?
What is evidence supporting the concept?
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Start with general reference works; move to specialize reference works; use the electronic catalogs to locate materials; browse through relevant books to locate articles
What is a step by step search method?
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General facts, rules, or principles usually expressed in mathematical symbols
What are formulas?
300
Knowledge, understanding, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
What is Bloom's taxonomy?
300
Identify characters, plots, settings, points of view, style, imagery and themes
What is strategies in literature?
300
The quality of the evidence; whether the evidence fits the idea or concept; the logical connections
What is evaluating an argument?
300
Start with search engines; use a search engine strategy
What is a critical internet searcher?
400
Facts, statistics, and other materials that are presented in support of an argument
What is evidence?
400
Understanding what you read depends on your ability to recognize
What is the main idea?
400
Trends over time, relative rankings, distributions and cycles
What are visual aids?
400
A set of connected ideas supported by examples that a writer makes to prove or disprove a point
What is an argument?
400
Use natural language phrases or key words to identify what you are looking for; use a search engine to locate valuable sites; skim sites to evaluate what seems most useful; save or bookmark the sites you want to focus on; when you think you are done start over
What is a search engine strategy?
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A one-two sentence statement describing the main idea of a paragraph
What is a topic sentence?
500
Your key to learning
What is Reviewing?
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Interact with math materials actively through writing; pay attention to formulas; use memory strategies to learn science
What are math and science strategies?
500
"The only way you can effectively absorb the relative information is to ignore the irrelevant information"
Who is Adam Robinson?
500
An exploration that uses a topic related natural language word or phrase as a reference to locate other information
What is a key word search?