Chapter 7: reading to learn from college textbooks
- active reading: increases focus & concentration, promotes greater understanding, prepare you to study for tests. Steps:
- previewing (purpose: get the bigger picture. understanding what you are about to read. read summaries, headings, subheadings) mapping: shows relationships between different chapter ideas. outlines, list, chunking: list of terms & definitions, divide terms into small clusters, leave white space between clusters
- marking: active reading, underlining, highlighting, writing notes/annotations. (read before you mark, don't over-highlight!!)
- reading w concentration (quiet place, take breaks, set goals, take a walk if needed, jot down questions, focus on important parts of text, use glossary)
- reviewing (go over notes/text regularly)
- primary sources: original research or documentation on a topic
- use flashcards to study terms!!!
- central ideas of chapters are in the intro
- math textbooks: pay attention to definition, theorems, & sample problems
- science textbooks: pay attention to unit conversions, charts, & tables. outline the chapters!
- humanities: branches of knowledge that investigate human beings, culture, & self-expression
- interdisciplinary: linking two or more academic fields of study
- abstract: paragraph summary of methods & major findings of an article in a scholarly journal
- read supplementary material if you have it
- monitor your reading & make sure you understand
- discipline: area of academic study
- listening, note taking, & reading = success
- get help w difficult material as soon as possible
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