Writing and Understanding Strategies Flashcard

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When writing a rough draft, a writer:

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uses the work completed in the prewriting stage to develop a first draft

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________________________ takes your understanding to a higher and deeper level.

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Active reading strategies

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In college, it is enough to understand course material and summarize it on an exam.

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False

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How can you seriously engage with new ideas?

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All of the available: finding new ways of thinking about a subject, analyzing them, reflecting on them, making connections.

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The SQ3R Strategy:

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is a reading process, requires the reader to survey the text, encourages reciting the main points of the text, encourages formulating questions before reading the text in full

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True or False: Your instructor will tell you everything you need to revise.

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False

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The _______________ is the most important idea that a writer wants to communicate and is often stated early in the writing.

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main point

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Words that share a similar pronunciation, meaning, or spelling are called:

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commonly confused words

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Dictionary definition of a word

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Denotation

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The English language contains an enormous and ever-growing number of words.

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True