Wsi NSE 11A – Week 3 Active reading

Wsi NSE 11A – Week 3Active reading

Contents • Office hours and Workshops • APA Review (from week 2) • Effective Electronic Communication • Active Reading • Studying Success Strategies

Office Hours • Tuesday, 12-1pm, SHE 540 • Tuesday, 2-3pm, KHE 119 • Wednesday, 12-1pm, after class or by appointment • Friday, 11-12pm, after class or by appointment • Contact Information: • lslinger@ryerson.ca • wsiryerson.wordpress.com/nursing

APA Workshops • Week 4: • Tuesday, September 23, 2-3pm POD 463A&B • Wednesday, September 24, 12-1pm, POD 476-C • Friday, September 26, 12-1pm, POD 476-C • Email me to reserve a space (lslinger@ryerson.ca), indicate which session you would like to attend.

APA Activities (Week 2) • Any questions?

APA Activities • Goes until page 37.

Electronic Communication Etiquette • When is email an appropriate form of communication to use? • When is it inappropriate?

Electronic Communication Etiquette • Formal versus Informal

Electronic Communication Etiquette • Situation 1: • You are ill. After visiting the medical clinic, the doctor has told you to stay home from school. You have an in-class test later the same day. Write an email to your professor explaining your absence and asking to write the test at a later date. Situation 2: You are working on a group project. Your partner has yet to contact you about the project and it will soon be due. You are concerned that you need to begin work. Write an email to your partner asking them to meet to discuss the project.

Critical Reading • Reading: • Quickly • With Focus • While asking questions about the information presented

Critical Reading • ACTIVE READING is a set of skills that will to allow you to: • Identify a reading’s thesis, arguments and how they are supported; • Discuss qualitatively how the argument is constructed and think about whether and how it was useful; • Relate it to broader themes, to think about how it would be useful in the future.

Active Reading • Pre-Reading • Reading • Summarizing and Evaluating

Pre-Reading • Why do you do each week’s readings? • Why pre-read?

Pre-Reading • Know what you want to know: • Survey the Article. • Ask Questions • - What is the topic? What does the reading seem to be about? How might it relate to that week’s readings or class topic? • Note Headings and Sub-Headings • [nursing reading summary sheet, see wsiryerson.wordpress.com/nursing]

Reading Read quickly and effectively by jotting notes and questions as you go, but maintaining a good speed. • Marginal Notes • Highlighting • Vocabulary • Reference List

Summarizing and Evaluating • Write up your notes. • Answer the questions you formulated during your pre-reading • Try and formulate a single major argument (thesis) in 1 to 3 sentences.

Summarizing and Evaluating IDEA/CONCEPT IDEA/CONCEPT SUB-CONCEPT Explanation/ Definition SUB-CONCEPT EXAMPLES EXAMPLES SUB-CONCEPT EXAMPLES EXAMPLES

4. Identifying Patterns • Reflect on what you have read: Level 1: Reflect on the basics of the reading itself Level 2: Reflect on the article as a whole Level 3: Reflect on the article more broadly

Active Reading • The goals of active reading are to allow you to: • Identify a reading’s thesis, arguments and how they are supported; • Discuss qualitatively how the argument is constructed and think about whether and how it was useful; • Relate it to broader themes, to think about how it would be useful in the future.

Active Reading • Pre-Reading • 1. Survey the Article • 2. Ask Questions • 3. Note Headings and Sub-Headings • Reading • 4. Marginal Notes • 5. Highlighting • 6. Vocabulary • 7. Reference List • Summarizing and Evaluating • 8. Write up your notes

Successful Studying Strategies • Reading: • It takes time. • Taking notes is essential.

Successful Studying Strategies • Active Attendance and Listening: • Use the same steps and strategies as for active reading. • Before Class/Pre-Reading: • 1. Survey that week’s topic and readings • 2. Ask Questions • 3. Note important topics, goals, headings and sub-headings.

Successful Studying Strategies • Active Attendance and Listening: • During Class/Reading • 4. Marginal Notes • - Take notes on important information. • - Listen for verbal clues about what is important in each topic and when the instructor moves from one section to another. • 5. Highlighting • - Highlight information from slides and readings. • - Use the “outline” function in Powerpoint. • 6. Vocabulary • - Note important concepts and unknown words • 7. Reference List • - Further readings

Successful Studying Strategies • Active Attendance and Listening: • During Class/Reading Powerpoint’s Outline function

Successful Studying Strategies • Active Attendance and Listening: • After Class/ Summarizing and Evaluating • 8. Write up your notes • - Include comments, questions, ideas, or connections you have about the reading. • - Find ways to fill in missing information (ask a classmate, review the assigned readings, go to your instructor’s office hours).

Successful Studying Strategies • What if I fall behind? • Some general points

Wsi NSE 11A – Week 3 Active reading