- Read the title
- Check the author and the source
- Read intro to first paragraph
- Read Boldface headings
- Read first sentence under each major heading
- Note typographical aids
- Note Graphic aids
- Read last paragraph or summary
- Read quickly any end-of article or end of chapter material
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Previewing page 29 Reading CMS 185
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Success Strategies Assignment 1
CMS 185 Reading Across the Disciplines
Strategies
- Develop New Skills for Each Academic Discipline
- Acquire the Right Tools
- Learn the Language of the Discipline
- Communicate with Classmates
- Communicate with Professors
- Develop new Means of Acquiring Information
- Use New Means of Acquiring Information
- Use New Means of Recording Information
- Become Familiar with Online Courses
- Demonstrate Academic Integrity
Assignment # 1 CMS 185
Read the Ten Success strategies pages p 2-24
1.Choose one point from 4 individual strategies. List the strategy and relate it to your academic program. Example Allied health, Social and Behavorial Science, Engineering Technology.
Example Strategy 3
Learn the language... Record new terms for later review. My Biology course has twenty new terms each day like Mitochondria, phagocytosis.....I need to learn some memory techniques.
2,Visit a website in one of the strategies. Write something that will give the rest of the class and idea of how it may help them study and learn more. paste the link in the email so others can use it during the semester. i will collect links and paste them on this web page for future reference.
examples Strategy #1 Develop new skills for each discipline
Establish overview. Study table of contents,
Life Sciences http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/culture/2006/scinotes/
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Something I Learned in Class
On this page I will include the sentences you write on the 4x6 card. Remember you need only one sentence with 140 characters or less.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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