Flexibility and Study Skills Setting a Purpose for Reading

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Flexibility and Study SkillsSetting a Purpose
for Reading

• Setting a purpose for reading helps you to read
  more efficiently.
• You must first get a general idea of the topic of
  the selection write down several questions you
  want to get answers for read the selection
  looking for information to use in answering the
  questions you wrote.

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Flexibility and Study SkillsScanning

• Scanning is reading to find specific details or
  facts.
• Your allow your eyes to sweep over the passage
  until you find the specific fact or detail you
  seek when you find what you need, write it down
  or make note of it in the passage if you can
  write in the text.

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Flexibility and Study SkillsSkimming

• Skimming is reading quickly to get a general idea
  of what a selection is about.
• This gives you a quick overview of the contentto
  be effective, you must know WHY you are
  skimmingread the title, the first and last
  sections, then skim the entire passage to get an
  overall impression.

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Flexibility and Study SkillsReading Intensively

• Reading intensively means reading slowly and
  carefullyit is the OPPOSITE of skimming and
  scanning.
• You pause after each paragraph/section to
  summarize the most important information in that
  part.

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Flexibility and Study SkillsTaking Notes and
Underlining Main Ideas

• Taking notes and underlining main ideas are two
  strategies that can help you remember what you
  read.
• Tips skim first paraphrase main points use
  quotations for exactly copied information write
  a sentence summarizing each paragraph copy
  important dates, names, and figures Record the
  citation source information for future use.
• If it is a selection you can write in, mark or
  highlight using the tips above.

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Flexibility and Study SkillsMaking an Outline
form Notes

• Outlines help you remember the information in a
  selection so that important information stands
  out form less important informationthe idea is
  to divide and organize ideas and details.
• ANY graphic organizer can help you remember
  informationnot just a formal outline with
  Roman numerals, letters, etc.

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Flexibility and Study SkillsUnderstanding Time
Lines

• A time line is a line on which the dates of
  certain events are placed in chronological (TIME)
  order.
• Years or other periods of time are measured out
  along a line so you get a clear picture of how
  close or how far apart in time certain things
  happened.

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Flexibility and Study SkillsUnderstanding Graphs

• A graph is a diagram that shows how two or more
  sets of facts are related.
• There are bar graphs, circle graphs, line graphs,
  as well as variously designed flow charts and
  graphic organizersALL MUST HAVE A TITLE to
  identify the topic.

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Flexibility and Study SkillsUnderstanding How
Books are Arranged in the Library

• DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
• Numerical order by call number
• 000 Generalities 100 Philosophy psychology
  200 Religion 300 Social sciences 400 Language
  500 Natural sciences mathematics 600
  Technology (Applied sciences) 700 The arts 800
  Literature rhetoric 900 Geography history

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Flexibility and Study SkillsChoosing the
Appropriate Reference Book

• There are many reference bookschoosing the
  correct one for what you need is essential in
  saving time
• Almanacrecords lists of facts
• Atlasmaps
• Dictionaryspellings, meanings, tenses, sometimes
  antonyms and synonyms (a Thesaurus definitely has
  antonyms/synonyms)
• Encyclopediadetailed information of a huge range
  of subjectsusually arranged alphabetically