Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Notes from Strategies (59-75,81-90) and review prompt

-Know what your reading for, leisure or academic
-Always make ur academic reading purposeful
-Primary and Secondary text
-Summary; the restatement of the main ideas
-Skeleton outlining and annotation




1.) There are many examples of text; novels, poems, lyrics, even maps and photography

3.) The focal point of text is the main idea or the topic an author is trying to get accross or discuss. This could be a topic sentence, title, or a heading

4.) Genre is a tool that we use to categorize text into simmilar groups. Text are placed into these different genres together based on their similarities

12.) Context is the who, what, when, where, and why of a piece

15.) Details are very important because they make a piece of text more convincing and believable

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