Chapter 7Chapter 7

WORKING THROUGH AN WORKING THROUGH AN ASSIGNMENTASSIGNMENT

Organizing the Ideas presented by Organizing the Ideas presented by your Instructor and Text to help your Instructor and Text to help

you pass tests and get good you pass tests and get good gradesgrades

Study Skills for Effective Study Skills for Effective ReadingReading

Two step process to handle the “volume” of Two step process to handle the “volume” of information in your text and teacher notes:information in your text and teacher notes:

Reduce the amount of to be learned by Reduce the amount of to be learned by deciding what is most important, less deciding what is most important, less important, and unimportant to learn.important, and unimportant to learn.

Organize that information into a Organize that information into a meaningful format.meaningful format.

Three Strategies for Organizing Three Strategies for Organizing Text Material & Lecture NotesText Material & Lecture Notes

Highlighting (only with books you own or personal Highlighting (only with books you own or personal hand-written hand-written notes—Lakeland rental books notes—Lakeland rental books cannot be highlighted or marked!cannot be highlighted or marked!

Annotating text or notes—writing small notes in Annotating text or notes—writing small notes in the margins, circling or marking words with the margins, circling or marking words with special special remarks—Remember that Lakeland rental remarks—Remember that Lakeland rental texts cannot be marked in!texts cannot be marked in!

Paraphrasing—a restatement of a passage’s ideas Paraphrasing—a restatement of a passage’s ideas in your own words. A special notebook can be in your own words. A special notebook can be used to make these paraphrases. A paraphrasing used to make these paraphrases. A paraphrasing guideline is on p. 136 in our text.guideline is on p. 136 in our text.

ParaphrasingParaphrasing

. . . Is a restatement of a passage’s ideas in your own words. The author’s meaning is retained, but your wording , not the suthor’s is used.

We do it “a lot” in everyday speech. Do you always repeat word for word something you tell someone that you heard somewhere else?

. . . Can be used to make a passage’s meaning clearer and often more concise.

Guidelines for ParaphrasingGuidelines for Paraphrasing

Read list on page 136Read list on page 136

Outlining to Organizing Outlining to Organizing IdeasIdeas

Read the tips on p. 138Read the tips on p. 138

Mapping to Show Mapping to Show RelationshipsRelationships

. . . A way of drawing a diagram to . . . A way of drawing a diagram to describe how a topic and its related describe how a topic and its related ideas are connected.ideas are connected.

Types: conceptual, p. 140-141; Types: conceptual, p. 140-141; process diagram, p. 143; time lines, process diagram, p. 143; time lines, p. 145-146p. 145-146

SummarizingSummarizing

. . . Is a brief statement that reviews . . . Is a brief statement that reviews the key points of what you have read.the key points of what you have read.

. . . Condenses an author’s ideas or . . . Condenses an author’s ideas or arguments into sentences written in arguments into sentences written in your own words.your own words.

. . . Contains only the gist of the text, . . . Contains only the gist of the text, with few details.with few details.

. . . You must “understand” the . . . You must “understand” the material before you can summarize it.material before you can summarize it.

More on SummarizingMore on Summarizing

Read the suggestions for summarizing Read the suggestions for summarizing

on p. 148on p. 148