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Critical Reading Book 09-17-06



Learning styles and Techniques:

Learning styles and techniques for improving learning ability, Reading is learning

Process by using many different strategies your learning styles ability will greatly

Enhanced, these techniques will help you to improve your college reading and learning

Ability performance,

1) Team up: working with one or more students in your class.
2) Sharing your thoughts regarding the concepts you are learning.
3) Take one Minute: This technique requires you to think about what you have just learned and quickly demonstrate that you understand it.
4) Learning Journal: This technique helps you analyze reading strategies and assess your learning.

Asma Abdulkadir Eng 75 chapter2
College and beyond: 09-17-06



Building Vocabulary



Building vocabulary is one of the most significant impacts on student

Achievement, by expanding your vocabulary, you increase your understanding

In knowledge, you also express your ability to speak and write freely.

Enhancing you vocabulary allows you to communicate effectively.

Reading is an important way to learn new words and in rich your vocabulary in

Daily life, by writing a journal on regular basis you will improve, building

Your vocabulary significantly,

Asma Abdulkadir
10-02-2006
Critical Reading chapter 3 Remembering what you read


In critical reading there many different ways to remember what you read, by doing the following, prepare to be the target audience group for the writer, read with an open mind, read slowly, reading slowly will help with tying the connection between the text. While reading from the text it’s good to have journal of writing pad close at hand to jot down any important points.


Chapter 4 Managing your reading time


Your reading time should be managed according to an individual highest pack of alertness. Some people are morning people and can maximize the information they take in during the mornings while others prefer reading in the evenings. When you begin to read try to find an optimal reading location as well, this will keep you from any distraction that will take away from your reading time.


Chapter 5 Locating the main idea


In most cases the main idea of the text being presented is going to be found in the introductory paragraph. You will also find a jumper of aid points around the main idea supporting it. The main idea will also be what are mostly discuses through out the body of the paper. When you have completed read the test skim over what have read.

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Eng 75 Critical Reading 10-30-2006

Finding Supporting Details Chapter 6

It is very important to locate the main idea and the major supporting details in a reading assignment are the foundation of college reading. The authors use details to help reads understand the supporting details. As privacy stated, major supporting details provide support for the main idea of a reading. They are commonly presented in the form of examples illustrations, explanations, definitions, facts of opinions. They typically answer who, what, when, how, and why? Minor supporting details are intended to clarify and enhance the major supporting details and are not usually considered as important. However some of them are significant and useful. It is important to prioritize details.
Once you identify the main ideas of on your reading material, you can divide the rest of the material into two categories major and main supporting details. If you are able to distinguish between the major and main supporting details, in your reading materials, it means you have understood what you have reading.


Chapter Seven: Critical Reading

This chapter explaining to fully understand a reading assignment, For example, what is inference? Inference is the process of thinking making assumptions and drawing conclusions about information. What we see, what we read, when an author’s opinions or ideas that are directly or indirectly implied in a reading stated materials.

Understand and an inference author’s purpose
Note comparisons and implied similarities
understand and an author’s use of time
Detect an author’s bias
Recognize information gaps
Seeing an Author’s Perspective
Using the text to support your conclusion
By using inference to identify implied main ideas your reading assignment will understand an author’s purpose. Successful readers understand that an author has a reason for writing, and that reason frames the author’s main ideas even if he or she doesn’t explicitly state them. To understand an author’s purpose in writing about a topic, ask yourself, what the author’s purpose for writing this textbook is.


Chapter Eight Textbook Methods of Organization Critical Reading

In this chapter, we will learn about the different of textbook organization. The author’s will combine organizational methods depending on the type and complexity of the topics.
They are discussing, knowing the different patterns, or methods of organization helps you make sense of what you are reading and remembering the content more accurate.



The author uses a number of classic organizational patterns.
How to use methods of organization
Organizational word clues owl’s
Listing 6. Comparison/contrast
Sequence 8. Definition/Example
Analysis 9. Cause/Effect

The authors use different methods of organization. In order to present information in a logical format that suits. The subject matter and goals of their books,
For example, the author uses a variety of ways to organize his methods. Alphabetically, numerically, by order of importance, or the order of chronological events, Although authors may use (OWC) such as first and second, useful way to identify on author’s method of organization is to look for the organizational word clues that indicate which patterns he or she is using.

Critical Reading For College And Beyond
Contents For Chapter One

1. Reading in college
2. Learning Journals Work
3. What Is Concentration?
4. Learning with purpose
Chapter Two

1. Developing your college vocabulary
2. Why vocabulary is important
3. understanding new vocabulary
4. Specialized vocabulary

Chapter Three

1. Remembering What you read
2. What Is Memory
3. Strategies for Remembering Information Long-Term
4. Strategies for Recalling Information

Chapter four
1. Managing Your Reading Time
2. Developing a Daily Reading plan
3. Becoming a More Efficient Reader
4. Tips For Developing a Daily Reading plan

Chapter Five
1. Locating Stated Main Ideas
2. Recognizing Main Ideas
3. What are Topics, Main Ideas, and Details?
4. Categorize an Author’s Points

Chapter six
1. Finding Supporting Details
2. Major supporting Details
3. Minor Supporting Details
4. Distiguistion Details and Main Ideas

Chapter Seven

1. Using inference to identify implied main ideas
2. What is inference?
3. What is Assumptions and Factual
4. Understand on Author’s purpose and the use of tone

Contents For Chapter Eight

1. Textbook Methods of Organization
2. Why Authors Use Methods of Organization
3. Identifying Methods of Organization
4. Organizational Methods in Longer Readings

Asma Abdulkadir Eng 82 cha1
Critical Reading Book 09-17-06



Learning styles and Techniques:

Learning styles and techniques for improving learning ability, Reading is learning

Process by using many different strategies your learning styles ability will greatly

Enhanced, these techniques will help you to improve your college reading and learning

Ability performance,

1) Team up: working with one or more students in your class.
2) Sharing your thoughts regarding the concepts you are learning.
3) Take one Minute: This technique requires you to think about what you have just learned and quickly demonstrate that you understand it.
4) Learning Journal: This technique helps you analyze reading strategies and assess your learning.

Asam Abdulkadir
Eng82 cha2
Asma Abdulkadir
09-17-06

Writing your Journal daily will help gathering your idea, analyze reading
Strategies and assess your learning. Writing journal and reading is learning process.
Ability will greatly enhance. By writing allot, it increase your vocabulary
Understanding of textbook information, you also increase your ability to write
Well and to communicate effectively. Therefore writing a journal on a regular basis
You will in rich your inner most thoughts, feelings and ideas that would help to
Explore in writing assignments.

Asma Abdulkadir Eng. 75 chapter 1

OBSERVATION SKILL


The process of watching something or someone carefully for a period of time will change our life. For example, in 1982, I gave birth to my first daughter in hospital
of Boston Massachusetts, The nurse who took care of me and my daughter inspired me and that was the time, I decided to become a nurse. There was one nurse who came regularly to help me. First of all, she was gentle, caring and loving towards my daughter,
and me she made me. She made me feel like she was a family member than a nurse to me. Second of all, when I was in labor had had a lot of pain, I couldn’t relax, but the
nurse gave me a medicine, which made me comfortable. In addition, she also did a lot of things to ease my pain. Finally, due to my complicated delivery, I was not able to move a lot. There fore, the nurse helped me to feed, clean my baby and more important,
educated me how to take care of my baby daughter, The Nurse who was in my delivery room inspired me to become a nurse, Because of her inspiration, I was able to achieve my
Medical Assistant Certificate in 1986, as I am still inspired by her, I am going to further my education in nursing. That way, it is good to be a quick observant and appreciative
in life,

Asma Abdulkadir Critical Thinking Skills Eng.75 chapter2
HOW IMPORTANT WARDS ARE.


Words give us ability to express our self freely. Without words, we couldn’t

able to speck. The words that we use in our daily life makes

us who we are, For example, If we are well educated, well behaved or

well negotiator that what the word tell about you. Words make us happy,

sad, and same time let’s wonder. We have to work hard to enrich our

vocabulary, In order to express our self freely, It is always good our words

and our action to be the same.

Critical Thinking: Eng 75

Realty what is real and fact Chapter 3
10-02-2006

In critical thinking we must evaluate all parts of a situation before coming to a final conclusion. We must observe all that surrounds our argument otherwise how can one come to a educate conclusion. You must not only look for facts that are present but also facts that are not there, narrowing down what it truth from foe. When taking observation you must know the difference between a reliable observation and an unreliable observation. It is also important while collecting all this data to not allow it to sway your judgment because it is an ongoing process, keep an open mind until you have the full picture in front of you.


Chapter 4 Inference

Inference thinking is natural to humans, if some one walks up to us with a gun in there hand we are going to assume they mean us harm. Inference is a way of gathering information, due to other things that may give to the ultimate finding. It is important to remember that inference is not factual. Just because one may infer something is going to happen, it may not happen at all, the exact opposite might happen.


Chapter 5 Assumption

Assumption is a pre-existing belief, for example it would be wise to assume that walking the streets of Oakland at night souls be unsafe. Assumptions may also sprout from experiences such as, every time I walk passed by neighbors house there dog barks, so from then on I know when I go passed there front yard I am going to hear a barking dog.
Assumption and Inference are deeply intertwined, our assumptions come from our belief our inference comes form our assumptions this basics of how human nature comes up with logical reasoning.

Ch 6 Summary Eng 75 Opinions: what’s Believed?

Opinions are one of the few things that are based clearly on an individual personal ideas and thoughts. It’s what makes us different from one another. If everybody had the same opinions perhaps we would live in a much more peaceful world, but it would be so boring everybody would view everything in the same way not much would have been accomplished. Opinions can be formed in so many different ways and for different reasons. One way can be based on taste for example some people may like the way something taste while others may despise. Another example would be more of an educated opinion such as individual who studies a certain scientific procedure may come up with a theory of what going to happen or why it happen, which will most likely be different that what another scientist may think.


Ch 7 Summary Evaluations What’s Judged? Eng 75

If a snowball is coming at me at 30mph the likely of it hitting me is very high, and if I stand in this spot most likely it will hit me. I don’t know the snow ball will hit me for a fact but from what I evaluate from this situation, I don’t want to stand here to find out. As humans it is important that we can asses are situations even though we may have never experienced them before. This is are way of adapting to what’s going on around us, Similar to the example given at the beginning but in a factual sense, if a brick was thrown out the window and I know for a fact that it will eventually hit the ground and may cause injury to anything in its path. Some evaluations are given based on experience but it cannot be qualified on fact just because it may not happen 90% of the time.

Ch 8 Summary Viewpoints What’s the filter?

In Critical Thinking it is important to always understand what you are reading. This may sound obvious but there are times when one can read some thing but not fully understand its meaning. You must be able to understand the writer view point, what are they assuming, what do they want the readers to believe after they have read there work. Once you understand where the writer is coming from and what their focus is you can go on to form your own opinions and ideas. Now you can use critically thinking to look at all different aspects of the writing because you have first seen it in all angles.

Ch 9 Summary Argument What’s a good Argument?


If a statement is thrown out to you, you would not necessarily believe just because some one told you. It is important when arguing a topic or persuading one on your views, you are prepared with data, facts about the topic a strong underlining premise and make sure you believe in what you are saying. Also when giving your argument your premise must be true, and your conclusion should always support your premise. You want to be prepared when you have and argument, in that all your material has been well researched and you are prepared to fire back on any questions given to you on that topic.


Ch 10 Summary fallacies What’s a faulty Argument?


A faulty argument will be most prevalent with an individual who does not have a strong premise, facts or data to back up what they are saying, therefore when they are presenting there statement it will sound faulty and have a lot of unnecessary words or sentencing just to confuse the opponent or even the individual presenting there argument. You can always tell when a bad argument is being given simply at looking at two parts of there argument. The first part being there premise and there second part being there conclusion. You can ask yourself does the conclusion support the premise at all, or does the conclusion make sense given what the premise is saying. Also when an individual is a giving a faulty argument they may have misleading facts so it is also important to be aware of the facts and make sure they are the truth.

Ch 11 Summary Inductive Reasoning and Inductive Fallacies:
How Do I Reason from Evidence?
Inductive reasonning is important to have in argument because it allows you to be aware of patterns going on in a situation. Although this pattern may happen almost every time it is important to be able to distinguish it between facts. Inductive reasoning can help strengthen your argument because a lot of times it is taken almost as being factual so it is a good basis to have. Fallacies are what brings an argument down because it is pattern of reasoning witch is usually wrong. This because of the way the argument is structured witch is incorrect for one reason or another. It may be incorrect because the statements may be false or it may be incorrect simply because of where the premise and conclusions are setup.

Asma Abdulkadir Eng 82 chapter2
College and beyond: 09-17-06



Building Vocabulary



Building vocabulary is one of the most significant impacts on student

Achievement, by expanding your vocabulary, you increase your understanding

In knowledge, you also express your ability to speak and write freely.

Enhancing you vocabulary allows you to communicate effectively.

Reading is an important way to learn new words and in rich your vocabulary in

Daily life, by writing a journal on regular basis you will improve, building

Your vocabulary significantly,

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Asma Abdulkadir
Eng 82 10-30-2006

Finding Supporting Details Chapter 6

It is very important to locate the main idea and the major supporting details in a reading assignment are the foundation of college reading. The authors use details to help reads understand the supporting details. As privacy stated, major supporting details provide support for the main idea of a reading. They are commonly presented in the form of examples illustrations, explanations, definitions, facts of opinions. They typically answer who, what, when, how, and why? Minor supporting details are intended to clarify and enhance the major supporting details and are not usually considered as important. However some of them are significant and useful. It is important to prioritize details.
Once you identify the main ideas of on your reading material, you can divide the rest of the material into two categories major and main supporting details. If you are able to distinguish between the major and main supporting details, in your reading materials, it means you have understood what you have reading.


Chapter Seven:

This chapter explaining to fully understand a reading assignment, For example, what is inference? Inference is the process of thinking making assumptions and drawing conclusions about information. What we see, what we read, when an author’s opinions or ideas that are directly or indirectly implied in a reading stated materials.

Understand and an inference author’s purpose
Note comparisons and implied similarities
understand and an author’s use of time
Detect an author’s bias
Recognize information gaps
Seeing an Author’s Perspective
Using the text to support your conclusion
By using inference to identify implied main ideas your reading assignment will understand an author’s purpose. Successful readers understand that an author has a reason for writing, and that reason frames the author’s main ideas even if he or she doesn’t explicitly state them. To understand an author’s purpose in writing about a topic, ask yourself, what the author’s purpose for writing this textbook is.


Chapter Eight Textbook Methods of Organization

In this chapter, we will learn about the different of textbook organization. The author’s will combine organizational methods depending on the type and complexity of the topics.
They are discussing, knowing the different patterns, or methods of organization helps you make sense of what you are reading and remembering the content more accurate.



The author uses a number of classic organizational patterns.
How to use methods of organization
Organizational word clues owl’s
Listing 6. Comparison/contrast
Sequence 8. Definition/Example
Analysis 9. Cause/Effect

The authors use different methods of organization. In order to present information in a logical format that suits. The subject matter and goals of their books,
For example, the author uses a variety of ways to organize his methods. Alphabetically, numerically, by order of importance, or the order of chronological events, Although authors may use (OWC) such as first and second, useful way to identify on author’s method of organization is to look for the organizational word clues that indicate which patterns he or she is using.

Asma Abdulkadir The college Writer

Chapter One Contents Eng 82

1. Critical Thinking and Writing
2. Thinking By Analysis
3. Thinking By Evaluation,
4. Thinking By Application,
5. Using Logical Reasoning

Chapter Two

1. Getting Started
2. Understanding The Assignment,
3. Selecting a Topic
4. Colleting Information

Chapter Three

1. Planning
2. Taking Inventory of your
3. Forming a Thesis Statement
4. Using Methods of Development
5. Developing a Plan Or an Outline

Chapter four

1. Drafting
2. Writing the First Draft
3. Basic Essay Structure Major Moves,
4. Developing the Middle
5. Ending Your Draft

Chapter five
1. Revising
2. Revising your First Draft
3. Revising your purpose
4. Revising Your Ideas
5. Revising For Organization

Chapter Six

1. Editing and Proofreading
2. Editing your Revised Draft
3. Editing your Sentence Style
4. Editing For Word Choice
Contents
Chapter Seven
1. Submitting
2. Formatting you Writing
3. Sharing you Final Copy
4. Effective Writing Checklist

Chapter Eight

1. One Writer’s Process
2. Getting Started Understanding the Assignment
3. Collecting Information
4. Planning Forming a Thesis Statement
5. Revising Collaboratively
6. Proofreading for Correctness

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10-02-2006

Chapter 3 college writing planning Eng 82


When you begin to write college papers, you have to do a number of different things. The first thing is to be able to back up all that you write with evidence and claims, also what you write maybe challenged so its crucial what you put down on paper, because you must be able to have references and proof for all that you say. Even when putting down your opinion, five examples why you feel that way or support it with some other facts.
Another thing that is very important is to be able keep the reader’s interest and attention with what you have to write. An additional thing is to be weary of rambling on or going into a narration so it is important to stay on point and be clear and concise on what the assignment is asking for.



Chapter 4 college writing Drafting


One of the most crucial steps when drafting is to make sure you clearly understand what the assignment is asking for before starting any thing else. Once you have a clear
Understanding of what is you are writing about you can then begin to gather information if you are gathering information from an article of book you may want to highlight everything that seems of importance, then go back and skim all that you have highlighted, and from there pull out all your main concepts and ideas, review them challenge them. Another thing is to be able to organize you paper, for example when would you want each topic to show up in your paper beginning middle of end, what do you want your main point to be and so fourth. There are many different ways of drafting a papers, another method known as the fast draft, this is where an individual will just write all there thoughts down on paper without stopping and once they have completed that, they will pull out thoughts and ideas from there drafts that they would like to incorporate into their final copy. Another thing that is also important is to find the tone of your paper, for example is your papers going to have found your tone make sure to try to stay consistent through out the paper.


Chapter 5 Revising


Once your paper is completed, look over it make sure that your introduction and conclusion tie in together. Check all you main points in each of your paragraph make sure they also have a clear introduction and conclusion so your readers are aware of when a new point begins and ends, organize your paper in such a manner that everything flows together and has relevant to each topic. All your claims made throughout the paper.

09-15-06 Eng.82 chapter1

What is the relationship between reading and writing?

Writing is a someone reading work, and writing is reading

As will. It is imposable to have one with out the other.

The benefite of reading is important for live.

Reading direct you to word safety and also warn you that something

Bad or dangerous may happen ahead. Writing allows us to

Express our self freely.



ASMA,

09-15-06 Eng.82 chapter1

What is the relationship between reading and writing?

Writing is a someone reading work, and writing is reading

As will. It is imposable to have one with out the other.

The benefite of reading is important for live.

Reading direct you to word safety and also warn you that something

Bad or dangerous may happen ahead. Writing allows us to

Express our self freely.



ASMA,

CORONARY HEART DISEASE


The heart one of the most important internal organs, begins to take its first beat while we are still safely tucked away in the womb of our mothers, continues to beat from that moment on until we take out last breath.
A well known enemy of the heart that plagues both men and women across the world is Coronary Artery Dieses. CAD occurs when the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle the coronary arteries become hardened and narrowed, due to buildup of a material called plaque (plak) on their inner walls. The buildup of plaque is known as atherosclerosis. As the plaque increases in size, the insides of the coronary arteries get narrower and less blood can flow through them. Eventually, blood flow to the heart muscle is reduced, and, because blood carries much needed oxygen. The heart muscle is not able to receive the amount of oxygen it needs. that affect to the arteries in the heart. Narrowing of the small blood vessels causing blockages of vessels due to fat and cholesterol deposits, these are not the only factors that cause this ailment, there are both genetic and environmental factors that play a role, such factors are women who have passed menopause. Luck of exercise, over weight, diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. In our bodies it is natural we get fatty deposit; cholesterol is a waxy, fat like material that is found in all ports of the body. It comes from two sources; from liver produces it, and we consume it in meat and dairy products.
Fatty streaks in the arteries begin early on in life, a lot of time starting out in teen years some blockage does not threatening to our health, even up to 50% blockage is not life threatening, it will take your heart more work to pump blood to your body while working out, you tend to become out of breath more quickly while doing any physical activity.
The problems occurs when the blood vessel is 90% blocked at this point there may be a deficit amount of blood reaching the body while at rest, and once we have reached a 100% blockage a heart attack has occurred.

CAUSES, INCIDENCE, AND RISK FACTORS
Coronary hear disease is the leading cause of death in the United States for men and women according to the American Heart Association, about every 29 seconds some one in the U.S. have heart attack. CHD-related event, and about every minute some one dies from it.
Men generally do get it four times as much as women before the age of forty in women or once women has reached menopause, the risk factor to have Coronary Artery Disease is greatly increases. There are many factors that increase the risk for CHD. Some of the risks are based on family (genetics), and others are more controllable risk factors.

family history of coronary heart disease
male gender
age 65 and grater
tobacco smoking
high blood pressure
diabetes
high cholesterol levels
lack of physical activity of exercise
obesity
menopause in women
Infection that causes inflammation in the artery wall.

SYMPTOMS OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE ARE
The most common symptoms of coronary artery disease are chest pain or chest discomfort (angina) or pain in one or both arms left shoulder, neck, jaw or back pain.
Shortness of breath
Symptoms may become more severe as coronary arteries become narrower due to the buildup of plaque (atherosclerosis)
In some people, the first sign of CAD is a heart attack.


HOW IS CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE DIAGNOSED
EKG Electrocardiogram
Echocardiogram
Cardiac catheterization
Exercise stress test
Coronary angiography.

How is Coronary Artery Disease Treated?
Treatment for coronary artery disease may include life style changes, medicines, and special procedures.
Eat a healthy diet to prevent or reduce. High blood pressure, and high blood cholesterol and to maintain a healthy weight.
Quit smoking
Exercise
lose weight
Reduce stress

Medications may include;
Beta-blockers
Aspirin
ticlopidine
calcium-channel blockers and so on

Surgical procedures include
1. Coronary artery bypass surgery
2. minimally invasive surgery