Gist Questions

Discourse Strategies

• Service Encounters, Consultations & Student Meetings• Immediate explication

• Lectures • Funnel Introduction• Broad Statements + General topic (information about class) or

I-R-E• Establishing the context through background information• Definition

• Thesis Statement and Specific topic

Lexical Phrases | Lecture

• Consultations • Requested by Professor

• The reason I asked you to come by• So the reason I wanted to see you

• Requested by Student• The reason I am here…

• Lecture• Yesterday we talked about ______, but today we’re going to look at• Our focus today is on…• Okay, let’s move on to• Next I’d like to discuss• Now I want to discuss• What I’d like to do today

• Example Lecture Intro 1 • Example Lecture Intro 2• Example Lecture Intro 3• Example Consultation 1

Organization Patterns

• Cause and effect• Comparison/contrast• Process• Chronological order• Problem and solution• Sequence

Gist Questions

Consultations, Meetings & Service Encounters• Why does the student go to see the advisor/professor?• What are the students discussing?• Why are the students discussing this material?Lectures• What is the subject of a lecture?• What is the topic of the lecture?• What is the main idea of the lecture?• What is the purpose of the lecture• What is the main point of this lecture?