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Title: Academic Skills:


1
Academic Skills
  • The Nuts and Bolts, and the Big Picture

Chris Hays, Writing Counselor
2
Coming sessions on writing skills
  • (all at 630 p.m.)
  • 9/18 From Thought to Paper
  • 9/25 Cleaning up your Papers
  • 10/16 Taking Your Research Papers to the Next
    Level

3
The Process of Learning
  • Input
  • Processing
  • Output

4
Sources of Information for Test Preparation
  • Class notes
  • Readings

5
Review The Four Stages of Reading
  • Elementary
  • Inspectional
  • Analytical
  • Syntopical

6
Review Analytical Reading Questions
  • What kind of writing is it?
  • What is the unity of the writing (in a sentence
    or two)?
  • What is the structure of the writing?
  • What was the authors problem?

7
Review Analytical Reading Questions
  • What are the key terms?
  • What are the major propositions?
  • What are the major arguments?
  • What are the authors solutions?

8
Review Making a book your own
  • Underlining / vertical lines
  • Stars / asterisks
  • Numbering points
  • Page numbers for reference
  • Circling key terms or phrases
  • Writing in the margins

9
Processing information for tests
  • Two primary types of test questions
  • Factual/Definitional
  • Essay

10
Factual / Definitional Examples
  • Some of these are very brief
  • Languages vocabulary quizzes
  • What year did Luther post his 95 Theses?
  • After the death of Solomon, who were the kings of
    Israel and Judah?

11
Factual / Definitional Examples
  • Slightly longer
  • List the undisputed Pauline letters in order of
    their likely historical sequence.
  • What were the names and approximate dates of
    the Pentateuchal sources, according to Julius
    Wellhausen?

12
Approaching factual tests
  • Term- and date-lists
  • Flashcards
  • Maps

13
Essay question examples
  • Shorter
  • Describe Luthers doctrine of consubstantiation.
  • Explain the nature of trickster characters
    with reference to the book of Genesis.

14
Essay question examples
  • Longer
  • Compare and contrast the beliefs and practices
    of the Pharisees with those of the Sadducees
  • Identify and compare the covenants found the Old
    Testament.

15
Approaching essay tests
  • Outlines, outlines, outlines
  • Term- and date-lists (Take 2)

16
Four Phases of a Paper
  • Summarize
  • Criticize and assess
  • (Synthesize)
  • (Extend)

17
Criticism and Assessment Questions
  • Is it true? Does the author make his or her case?
  • So what? What is the significance, the payoff?

18
Review Analytical Reading Questions
  • What kind of writing is it?
  • What is the unity of the writing (in a sentence
    or two)?
  • What is the structure of the writing?
  • What was the authors problem?

19
Review Analytical Reading Questions
  • What are the key terms?
  • What are the major propositions?
  • What are the major arguments?
  • What are the authors solutions?

20
Francis Bacon on critical reading
Read not to contradict and confute nor to
believe and take for granted nor to find talk
and discourse but to weigh and consider.
21
Types of possible flaws
  • Lack of information
  • Misinformation
  • Flawed Reasoning
  • Incomplete Analysis

22
Example Flawed reasoning
  • The fastest-growing Christian churches in the
    world are Spanish-speaking Pentecostal Churches
    in South America.
  • We would like to have a fast-growing church in
    Alpharetta.
  • Therefore if we found a Pentecostal church there
    and call a Spanish-speaking pastor, the church
    will likely grow quickly.
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