salha space

Listening and Note taking

• Paraphrase
• Reading content
• Review work after

Reading comprehension

Previewing

1.  length
2.  Title
3. Headlines
4.  Coding
5. Picture
6. Conclusion
7. Reflect

Reading

• 1. Location
• 2. Time
• 3. Connection
• 4. Note (areas of difficulty, vocab, etc.)
• Reading 2
• Main ideas
• Key item

Summarizing

• Understand the articles
• section-by-section
• Main idea
• Use your own words

Becoming academic writer

•  Writing situation
• Organization synthesize
• synthesize
• revise/edit
• citations

Prepare for exam

• Three steps
• Apply contexts
• Don’t cram

Reviewing and memorizing

• Link info
• Categorize
• Visual image
• Mnemonic devices

Organize material

•  categories
• apply in context 
• testing yourself
• Heading tests 

Define key terms

 work out problems

Academic writing

• questioning
• research
• communication
• writing in response to texts
• agree/disagree with author
• analyze main points
• determine purpose of paper
• explanatory or argumentative
• clarify readers understanding of subject

structure and content

• thesis
• evidence
• synthesize
• acknowledge sources

use correct academic language

• no slang
• proper english
• no first person
• be authoritative and neutral

• Argument

subject

claim

evidence

assumptions

opinions shape views

interprate assumptions

must be reasonable

will be disputed

evidence facts expert opinions

statisticscal information

• E-mail

• addressing
• composing
• tone
• be careful with irony
• professional
• reading/responding consider reader
• don't be a nitpicky reader

• Collaborating online

real time chat

delayed conversation

email

blog

working on drafts

early drafts: focus on deep issues

• Oral presentation

• powerpoint
• videos
• voice overs

organization

• attention grabber
• put yourself in speech
• introduce and preview topic

delivery

• impromptu
• speaking from a text
• speaking from memory

• Public letters/resumes

• state purpose from start
• cpncise, clear, courteous
• fluid grammar
• formal
• addresses
• body
• closing
• salutation
• signature

• Job application

• interpret resume
• announce what job you want
• how you heard of it
• special reasons you're applying
• summarize qualifications

Describe availability

The struggle to be an All-American girl, is written by Elizabeth Wong. she describe her live in Chinatown in Los Angeles. The author used a lot of dramatic instance to express details, such as when author want to explain the politeness before beginning Chinese class. The author has used some examples to compare America and China.

she described how her mother forced her to go to school and to learn the language of her heritage. Also the difficulty she face in Chinese language and culture. For example, when she talks about the school how the auditorium is smell and dirty, how they start the class with politeness exercises, the students welcome their teachers every day by tape the bell, kowtow and chant. Also, I like her way when she used Chinese word “sing san ho” to describe the situation and what does it mean in English. I like the words she used to describe the story because I learn newand difficult words. For example, painstakingly, mustiness, chant, ideographs and nagging etc. I like how she struggle to be one of the American when she said “At last I was one of you, I wasn’t one of them”. In fact, something that I do not like about the story how she hates Chinese culture, and how she against learning Chinese language I do not like how she embarrassed from her grandmother how she describes her as humor “raunchy”, also her heritage and where she come from. I do not like it because she should be proud of herself, her grandmother, her heritage and where she comes from. Finally, she describes her sadness when she thought that she could be multicultural “sadly, I still am”

The whole article is easy to understand because the author used the examples which more close to our lives. Also she used a lot of academic words to express the process of bing an “all-American girl”, the author make the article have the sense of humor.

What you have to Consider

• Subject
• Purpose
• Audience
• Research

Situation

• Entertain
• Pursuade
• Express
• Report
• Summarize
• Discuss
• Define
• Analyze
• Interpret

your audience

• Who are your readers?
• What are their expectations?
• What reaction do you want?
• How should you project yourself to my readers?

Invention

• Encourage readers to write down their ideas
• Free writing
• Brainstorming
• Writing Process
• Arrangement
• Style
• Delivery

Organization

• Control by main idea
• Focus statement
• Let the ideas shape your essay
• Statement
• What claim does your statement about your subject?
• How well does the statement convey your purpose and subject?
• Spatial: top to bottom
• Chronological: start to finish
• General to specific: broad then focused
• Drafting
• Start writing the parts that you best understand
• Work in a quiet place
• Start with the main ideas
• Be as fluid as possible
• Set aside enough time

Revising

•  Peer review and writing center
• Outline draft
• Ease the pressure
• Read the draft aloud
• Have someone else read your work
• Ignore content
• Read printed copy

• Convey an idea
• Events and conciquences
• Definition
• Extended explanations
• Use examples

President Obama gives a speech in South Africa at the memorial conference of Nelson Mandela. The place was very crowded and everyone was happy. He talked about Mandela and Mandela was taking risks. Mandela believed in studying the ideas that people's agree and disagree with to understand everyone point of views. President Obama wants to show the audience how Mandela was a smart, powerful and strong leader to influence them. Obama want show people how Nelson Mandela is a memorable leader and we can not forget him.

I think Obama's speech was great. He always knows what he has to say to attract people. He wants people to remember how Mandela helped African and how he struggles to give them new and good life.

One of the greatest speeches is "I have dream" speech by Martin Luther King. The purpose of his speech is to set equalization between an American citizen. His speech is about freedom and citizen right no difference between black American and white American. Martin Luther King is one of the best speakers, he know how to persuade the audience. I have dream speech made a huge change in America and now people still remember him.

I really like his speech; his speech is one of the best speeches ever given. He solve one of the most difficult problem in America his aim was to make all people equal. He wants those of different race should not be segregated.

This letter was written by Margaret Atwood, the article is discusses the relationship between American and Canadian. She was describing in her letter America in the past and how it become today.

America was a successful country but no it slowly filling down Also she discussed in her letter about the change within the political and economic system. American economy is filling down now not like before. At the end of her letter she pointed out that there is still hope for the future for the America to came back as it was before.

The article is very interesting, I hate politics but I like this article. In my opinion, America not like before America was a very successful and strong country, but if we look to other country like Arab country (Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, etc. America is much better than this country.

Writing in the middle

option 1: gathering as much information 

option 2: write your own summary

Plagiarism

using others words and ideas

common knowledge doesnt need to be cited

students should make their own info

give sources support their ideas

paraphrasing

rewriting what you think the author meant

makes you think

put things in your words

Summarizing

long paragraph in one or two statement

do not put your own thoughts

Quoting

important to the subject

10 to 20 percent quotes

retain your voice

quote just most important things

cite and analyze

Dialogic Note Taking

1 - listen in underlining

2 - reread beginning and conclusion to understand main idea

3 - try to find good example of your summary

4 - use right side of notebook for thinking

Notetaking

dialogue

double entry method

responding

research log

infomation

inquiry question

search notes

the source reconsidered

narrative notetaking

quickest and easy

after reading 60 seconds of free writing, and your thoughts

online research notebooks

pdf transtoin

google docs

More Advanced Searching Techniques

search terms

search other datatbases

check bibliographies

loan services

governmwent documents

reference librarian

multiple search engines

Alternative sources

blogs

images

radio and podcasts

youtuvbe

organizations

She was talking about women who faced problems in finding job. The author wrote about how women writers were struggle. Also she wrote about her experience And how she does not depend on writing for a living. How women can behave as professionals. The article shows that women were succeeding in writing because the paper was very cheap.

I like this article because it talks about women right and how they can become professional. Women must have their own personality. In my country women have no right to say their opinion

Topic : economics and our society

1. Introduction
2. Background
3. What is Economic/ history?
4. Why I choice economic major?
5. Who encouraged me to study economic?
6. Why economic is important today?
7. Economic major career option
8. My working experience!
9. Good things about the Economics major.
10. Conclusion.

The article is about feminist or women liberation. The author tends to say that man and women should be equal. The characteristic of I think the author point is to show how most women in the past were confined to a house. They were just doing their house duty. but by the time went , they start developing themselves and they try to prove that women can do what men can do no different between them. And how they work hard to get their rights. I think the author want us to know how to determine the difference of the male and female voice in writing, also the diction, style, or voice of a female and male.

There are four-step process of feminist critics,1-formulating a research question and selecting an artifact; that mean when you selecting artifact you have to search for a good question 2-selecting a unit of analysis; that men select the way of analyzing your artifact 3-analyzing the artifact and. 4-writing the critical essay I think the author goal of this essay to show the reader the ways of analyzing the artifact by theses. The article is very interesting,but in the beginning it was confused because i was not know what his goal from this article then i understand his points and goal of this article

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The project slides was very good.

Good information and good structured.

The presenters were confidant, well prepared and their voice was clear.

Their topic was about chapter 1 Curious Researcher

Ways to find a writing topic:

1. web
2. research database using library
3. consider written essay
4. pay attention to the topics
5. topics you enjoy
6. collaborate

What makes good topic

1. easy to access info
2. thought/questions
3. interesting to author 
4. use something not typical or common
5.  assigned your topic

-examine your assigned topic through the 6 lenses 

1.people

2.trends

3.controversies

4.places

Developing a working knowledge

1. defintions

2. debates

3. people

4. contexts

*Research Strategies

guide you to the best resource of the topic

how to find the angle is to find the question

1. post a large piece of paper on the wall

2.briefly describe why you choose the topic

3.list the thing you already know

4.brainstorming questions you would ask about the topics

5. move to other people’s paper, write a question

Then see what questions they write on your paper

Research proposal

1.primary purpose

2.explore or argue

*Reading rhetorically

1. select reading
2. text messages
3. focus on your reading process
4. difference between reading to write

The paper was writing by Marohang Limbu, Matthew McCool and Xiangjuan Zeng the ways of teaching English language writer and many different ways that people can use it to write their goal was to provide an understanding of writer and reader responsible syntactic structures and then demonstrate a basic technique for teaching. The authors explain that about how could the culture affect our way of thinking. They wrote about the differences between western and eastern styles of writing and communication. Also the paper show the different between America and Asia.

I really like the research because it allows me to know the different between writing and reading responsibility and writing culture ect. The paper Is well written and there is a lot of important information the structure of the paper was perfect I think the research was great I hope to do one like this in the future free of error.

Introduction:

1. What are the Islamic holidays (history)?

Islam has a few holidays compered to most other religions. Muslims usually celebrates only two festivals Eid al Fitr and Eid Al-Adha , a special month of a daytime fasting is Ramadan. “Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar.

Background:

2. What is Ramadan?

The term Ramadan literally means scorching in Arabic.

3. What is Eid al Fitr?

Eid Al-Fitr is the day after Ramadan ends, at that day Muslim celebration the Feast of Fast-Breaking.

4. What do people do in these holidays?

During the month of Ramadan, Muslims show their devotion to God by fasting and abstaining from foods, drinks, bad habits, smoking and sexual intercourse.

We celebrate Eid al Fitr with Qahwa is an Arabic coffee, dates and chocolate. Vesting friend and family.

5. What they eat in this event?

Diffrent kinds of saudi dishes. In Saudi Arabia we usually start with milk, water and dates. Soups and Samosa are essential components of Ramadan meals

In Eid al Fitr you will always find small dishes that contain different types of Tateema (different types of olives, cheese, honey, jam and bread that are placed on different small plates).

6. What they wear?

New clothes. for example, saudi style Thobe for man and Abaia for women

7. Conclusion

Ramadan is a very important time for Muslims, taking place during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Eid al-Fitr, is a celebration held by Muslims to mark the end of Ramadan and to thank Allah for the strength he gave them to get through this traditional period of fasting and its at lasts three days