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Well Formed Outcomes

Well Formed Outcomes. What is your purpose ? What’s stopped you (slowed you down) before ? What do you get out of what you do now ? How can you improve ? How will you know when you’ve achieved your purpose ?. Reading purposes. Purpose. Select potential sources Identify key themes

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Well Formed Outcomes

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  1. Well Formed Outcomes • What is your purpose ? • What’s stopped you (slowed you down) before ? • What do you get out of what you do now ? • How can you improve ? • How will you know when you’ve achieved your purpose ?

  2. Reading purposes

  3. Purpose • Select potential sources • Identify key themes • Master ideas – primary sources • Gather supporting evidence – secondary sources • Interest

  4. Reading StrategiesSelecting sources / Identifying themes Covers blurb Contents Preface / foreword / abstract Author information Chapter introductions / conclusions Figures / diagrams / statistics

  5. Reading StrategiesMastering primary ideas Reading carefully Reading in detail Note-making Active (questioning) involvement What are the main points ? Is it convincing ? (why / why not ?) What are the implications ?

  6. Reading StrategiesMastering primary ideas Process: What’s my purpose ? Skim read first for context Detailed reading with questioning mind Make notes regularly - Summarise notes Try summarising without reference to notes

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  8. Reading StrategiesGathering supportive evidence Where are the key points ? Introduction Conclusion The topic sentence of each paragraph (often the first) Summarise Reference

  9. Reading barriers • Mouthing words • Reading word by word • Going backwards • Losing your place • Struggling because you ‘have to’ • Stopping to check unfamiliar terms

  10. Solution • Keep going !

  11. Reading strategiesEnjoyable engagement • Find the best time • Allocate short, regular times • Engage with the subject • Listen to music ? • Focus without distraction

  12. How do you feel about reading ? Ways of making it more enjoyable … … read what you like … share with a friend … set limits, engage actively, stop

  13. Note-making Purposes 1: Summarising

  14. Note-making Purposes 2: Synthesising

  15. Note-making Purposes 3: Critically analysing

  16. i thank You God for most this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth day of life and love and wings; and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)

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