Keeley Library July 30, 2000
| THINKING
SKILLS: INTEGRATING LIBRARY RESOURCES WITH
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Keeley Library July 30, 2000 |
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| COURSE:
9554
College Study Skills + Career |
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Information Gathering, Summarizing current event (Need to add
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LA 3
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CONTENT: Deliver
formal oral presentations using clear enunciation, gestures, tone vocabulary,
and organization appropriate for a particular audience
PERFORMANCE: Each
student will present a current event summary, college research project,
and photo or word poster in oral presentation using clear enunciation,
gestures, tone, appropriate for a particular audience.
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LA 4 | CONTENT: Identify
and use correctly in all content areas, idioms, cognates, words
with literal and figurative meanings, and patterns of word
changes that indicate different meanings or functions. Use
dictionaries or related references.
PERFORMANCE: when writing an essay, the student will use a dictionary and grammar to learn the origin or words. This will enable students to identify new words in all content areas and new vocabulary in writing assignments. |
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Writing Essays current event (Need to add
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LA 5 | CONTENT: Students
identify and describe all conventions of standard english, and edit all
writing to conform to conventions of standard English.
PERFORMANCE: Students will edit their essays and news magazine summaries to conform to conventions of standard English. |
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LI 9 | CONTENT: Identify
and describe the essential ideas in what they have heard, read, or viewed,
by using the focusing, planning, monitoring, and assessing strategies that
they have found most
effective in helping them learn from a variety of texts. PERFORMANCE: Students will identify the basic facts and essential ideas in what they have read and present those ideas in written and oral form. |
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Note Taking current event (Need to add
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LI 10 | CONTENT:
Identify and analyze characteristics of genres
such as satire, parody, allegory, and pastoral that overlap or cut across the lines of basic classification such as poetry, prose, drama, novel, short story, essay or editorial PERFORMANCE: Students will recognize and analyze the characteristics of satire, humor, irony, and double talk when reading articles for their written current events summaries.
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LI 13 | CONTENT: Analyze,
explain and evaluate how authors use the elements of non fiction to achieve
their purposes.
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LI 17 | CONTENT: Analyze
the moral and philosophical arguments presented in novels, films, plays,
essays or poems; an author's political ideology as portrayed in a
selected work, or collections of work, or archetypal patterns found in
works of literature or non-fiction.
PERFORMANCE: Students will use essay and discussion to present an author's moral and philosophical ideas in a particular work or works. |
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C 20 | CONTENT: Use
effective rhetorical strategies and demonstrate understanding of the
elements of discourse (purpose, speaker, audience, form,) when completing
expressive, persuasive, informational, or literary writing assignments.
PERFORMANCE: In their speeches, students will select appropriate modes of reasoning and speaking styles when writing for different rhetorical purposes and audiences. |
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C 21 | CONTENT: Revise
their writing to improve style, word choice, sentence variety, and
subtlety of meaning, after rethinking how well they have addressed questions
of purpose, audience and genre.
PERFORMANCE: Students will demonstrate improvement in style, word choice and sentence variety after revising their written speeches for oral presentation. |
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C 22 | CONTENT:
Use all conventions of standard
English to edit their writing. PERFORMANCE: When reviewing their oral presentations, students will use knowledge of standard English conventions to edit their work. |
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C 23 | CONTENT: Use
their own questions, notes, summaries,
and outlines to deepen learning across disciplinary areas. Use self generated questions, summaries and outlines to enhance learning. PERFORMANCE: Students will use their own notes, summaries, and outlines to enhance learning for success in college. |
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C 24 | CONTENT:
Individually formulate open ended questions
to explore a topic of interest design an carry out their research, and evaluate the quality of each research paper in terms of adequacy of its questions, materials, approach, and documentation of sources. PERFORMANCE: Students will use open-ended research questions, different sources of information, and appropriate research methods to gather information for their research project. |
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M 26 | CONTENT: Select
appropriate electronic media for research and evaluate the quality of information
obtained. Research a topic independently using a variety of electronic
media.
PERFORMANCE: When preparing their poster and oral presentation of a college, students will obtain information from a variety of media, and evaluate the quality of material they obtain. |
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