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| How does recognizing a pattern improve recall? |
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| Items are easier to remember if they are related in some way. |
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If you can recognize the pattern of a lecture, note taking will become an easier task.
Patterns will help you write stronger papers.
Essay exams often require you to use one or more patterns.
Patterns will help you organize a speech. |
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| What are the 6 most common organizational patterns? |
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| Chronological Order, Definition, Classification, Comparison-Contrast, cause-effect, Enumeration |
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| Ideas are presented in the order in which they occur in time. Uses: to report current events, directions, instructions. |
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| Dividing a broad topic into its major categories |
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| Emphasizes the similarities or differences between two or more items. |
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| Describes or discussed an event or action that is caused by another even or action. |
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| A list of information without an important order. |
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| Using what you know to make a reasonable guess about what you did not know. |
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Understand the literal meaning first.
Ask yourself a question.
Use clues provided.
Consider the authors purpose.
Verify your inference. |
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| Statements that can be verified |
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| Statements express feelings, attitudes, or beliefs and are neither true nor false. |
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| A statement that is made about a large group or a class of items based on observation of or experience with a part of that group or class. |
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| Reveals attitude and contributes to the overall message |
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| to inform or instruct, to amuse or entertain, to arouse sympathy, or to persuade the reader to take a particular action or to accept a certain point of view |
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| An authors partiality, inclination toward a particular viewpoint of prejudice. |
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