Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Chapter ten mind map CRCB ENG75


Exercise 10b CRCB ENG75 page#327

Exercise 10b CRCB ENG75 page#327
Based on the title of the article, what do you expect it to be about?

Lifting the veil on sex slavery

What do you know already about the Taliban’s treatment of women?

Women were forced to wear the burqa in public, because, according to a Taliban spokesman, "the face of a woman is a source of corruption for men not related to them. They were not allowed to work. They were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight.

Are you familiar with the following vocabulary words, if not, looking them up in a dictionary before you start reading?

Tantamount: equivalent: being essentially equal to something

Degradation: The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society

Complicity: guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense

Revering: Referring to something that is respected

What question might you expect this article to answer?

What are the processes that should be taken to serve woman’s freedom of movement?

Chapter ten summaries CRCB ENG 75

Chapter ten summaries CRCB ENG75
Textbook marking helps you remember what you read, distinguish important from less important information, and it efficient from of taking notes, doing this by highlighting, and labeling ideas to show how they are related to each other and which are most important like the main ideas, details, and new vocabulary, different colored highlighters can help you with differentiation between main ideas and details, and finally use the word clues in order to guides you to clarity and further explain for the main idea, and also they are the words that the lecture uses to indicate the angel to take when you answer the question, I would like to provide an example for the words clue, describe is a clue word and its meaning is to Wright a detailed account or verbal picture in a logical sequence or story form. I think this chapter will help us achieving our goals in understanding, remembering, and keep us alert by using the highlighters, and symbols.

Chapter nine CRCB ENG 75 summaries

Chapter nine CRCB ENG 75 summaries
In this chapter an author is describing for us how to get the most out of what we read. The best way is to question yourself before and after you read, questioning yourself help you confirm that you have correctly identified main ideas and details, establish a purpose for reading, create a mental framework, and react to what you read. When you preview you got the chance to develop a framework by asking questions, there are a steps for previewing a reading assignment, its start with reading quickly and focusing on the title of the chapter, the second step is to develop questions like (who, what, where, when), and the last step is to predict content. And also when you develop a question try to ask and answer yourself, understand section, and monitor your reading. This dialogue, this active helps you understand and remember book material.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Chapter four discovery exercise page# 106

· Chapter four Discovery exercise page# 106
o Reasoning: Action of the verb to reason; the logical use of reason to form inferences or interpretations; abstract thought; ratiocination.

o Conclusion: the stopping point of each
o Guess: think: expect, believe, or suppose
o Explanation: a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
o Imagine: think: expect, believe, or suppose.
o Infer: deduce: reason by deduction; establish by deduction
Generalize: draw from specific cases for more general cases
o Inference: the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
o Interpret: make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?

Chapter three (TFY) discover exercises page#76

Chapter three (TFY) Discover exercises page #76
· Know: be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about; "I know that the President lied to the
Certain: reliable in operation or effect; "a quick and certain remedy"; "a sure way to distinguish the two"; "wood dust is a sure sign of termites"
Verified: confirm the truth of
· Existence: a point of view gradually coming into being
· Real : being or occurring in fact or actuality
· Fact : a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred

Chapter four summaries ENG 75 (TFY)

Chapter four summaries ENG 75 (TFY)
In this chapter an author is describe the difference between fact and inference, the fact is a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case. And also it’s a statement or assertions of verified information about something that is the case or has happened, inference are often confused with facts. A factual statement can be made after some observation, stays within what can be observed, can be made in limited number, and provides closest approach to certainty, while the inferential statement can be made any time, goes beyond what can be observed, can be made in unlimited number, and shows some degree of probability, All the facts are not always presented to the reader or problem solver. They have to be able to infer with skill to put the pieces together and see the entire picture. Facts and inferences are linked together through generalizations, and how to draw generalizations that can be supported by facts.

Chapter three summaries ENG 75 (TFY)

Chapter three summaries ENG 75 (TFY)
A fact is defined as something that actually exists, or something having objective reality that can be verified according to an established standard of evaluation, Alternatively, "fact" may also indicate an allegation or stipulation of something that may or may not be a "true fact”, Fact may also indicate findings derived through a process of evaluation, including review of testimony, direct observation, or otherwise, as distinguishable from matters of inference or speculation.. Some versions of the correspondence theory of truth hold that what makes a sentence true is that it corresponds to a fact this theory presupposes the existence of an objective world. The Slingshot argument claims to show that all true statements stand for the same thing - the truth value true. If this argument holds, and facts are taken to be what true statements stand for, then we reach the counter-intuitive conclusion that there is only one fact "the truth", facts need to be able to have reliability, and possibility in order to determine facts.

Chapter two summaries ENG 75 (TFY)

Chapter two summaries ENG75 (TFY)
In this chapter the author discusses the word precision, important things he had mentioned. To improve your thinking try to use accurate words, words enable us to communicate with others and ourselves, one of the best to make a rich foundation of words and know how to use them is the writing, and it helps us to describe our thoughts. Clear understanding needs clear thinking and word clarification by understand what benefits can we get from the dictionary, our ability to use a number of different flexible perspective is based partly to the fact that can be stretched, this flexibility is in fact closely related to the flexibility that occurs in the meaning of the word, the meaning of most words is largely determined by the contrast of one word with others, related words. The boundaries of the meaning of a word are not fixed with perfect precision, so it’s best to start by asking when we can rightly use a word. A new word or an old word used in a new sense remains quite vague unless there is an explicit definition. And if there is one, we can ask where the vague boundaries are in the terms used in the definition itself. Such questions will serve to alert us to fallacies or untested presuppositions that sometimes slip in because of movable boundaries. Reading critically allows us to think clearly and understand effectively.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Chapter six mind map CRCB


Exercise 7a page#212 CRCB ENG75

1. A penny saved is a penny earned
Save your penny and it will add up
2. Time heals all wounds
Take your time and it will get better
3. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime
Teach everything you know and take what you learn with your whole life.

Chapter seven summaries CRCB ENG75

Inference is the process of making assumptions, and drawing conclusion about information when an author’s opinion or ideas are not directly stated. So this chapter will teach you how to read textbooks and other material so you can pull more meaning from them, it focuses on strategies that will help you draw conclusions from your reading…an authors diction, or choice of words, is significant when you are trying to work out exactly what he means. There are strategies will help you to effectively infer meaning when an author does not directly state his main points, understand the author reason for writing , note comparisons and implied similarities to illustrate and explain an unfamiliar situation, understand an authors use of tone, the tone that an author use to discuss the subject matter, detect an authors bias by picturing the person with whom you are having a textbook conversation, and recognize information gaps by reading the entire textbook, noting the authors use of key words and phrases. One problem will occur for students is how much to infer, recognize an authors perspective and use the text to support your conclusion are a solution to prevent infer too much.

Chaptr five mind map CRCB ENG75


Sunday, February 15, 2009

Exercise 6a page# 180 identifying major supporting details ENG75

Exercise 6a page# 180 identifying major supporting details

2: your question: what are the tattoos?
Major supporting details: there just a silly pictures
3: Why didn’t she approve of her very much?
A: she slept in the class
B: and she sniffed all the time
4: why doesn’t he want her to look at him?
He thought of being enclosed was too much

Chapter six summaries ENG 75

CHAPTER SIX

Author use details to illustrate and explain the main ideas, details consist of facts, examples, specific information, explanations, and definition, there are two types of details: major supporting details which provide support for the main idea of the reading, and minor supporting details to clarify and enhance the major supporting details and are not usually considered as important, details are frequently introduced by word clues and phrase, the foundation of reading is to know what is the main idea to evaluate what is the most important you need to remember.

Exercise 5d page # 147 question yourself ENG75

EXERCISE 5d page#147 question yourself

2: How the aging process occurs
3: Time on earth is existence
4: Prostitution becoming legal
5: Cars could have impression
6: People miss the point of power

Chapter five CRCB summaries ENG 75

CHAPTER FIVE
Identifying the information is the first step to understand what you are reading, by distinguish

between general ideas and more specific ones, the main idea of a reading is the controlling point

that the author makes about the topic it’s what the author believe and emphasize as the central

point of his writing, using a strategies that can helps you think about what you read such as

question yourself, looking in the usual places, how the main idea sentences can be found in

different places, noticing clue words and categorizing an authors point, you can consider this as a

recipes and road signs helps you find the main idea more efficiently.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Exercise one page 129

Exercise one page 129

Match each vocabulary word in column A with its correct definition in column B
1. Efficient reading : thinking about what are you reading
2. Speed reading : reading groups of words instead of individual words
3. Critical reading : comprehending text at an appropriate reading rate
4. Skimming : reading only some of the words
5. Regressing : rereading
6. Subvocalizing : reading aloud
7. Pacing : using your finger to guide your reading

Chapter four summaries


Chapter four summaries
In this chapter the author is emphasis about how to manage our reading time, what is efficient reading?, how to be more efficient reader, and how to develop a daily reading plan.
The efficient reading is to be able to read and comprehend textbooks material in an appropriate amount of time and that depends on many factors like the level of the difficulty and the grade you would like to earn.
In order to become more efficient reader we have to judge our reading rate by speeding reading, critical reading which its goal is to slow down, take time to digest an author point, reading quickly, skimming which is mean to reading only some words which helps us mentally prepare, trying to figure out the meaning using by rereading, using our fingertips to follow each word in order to improve our reading speed.
The previously steps guide us to have a much better chance of meeting our reading goals

Monday, February 2, 2009

Chapter 2 summary ENG 75

Chapter two summary

Increasing your vocabulary will increase our ability to think critically, in order to achieve this we have to use a lot of ways.
Using a dictionary is an important devise to come up with a lot of words which can help us to reflect our impression.
A word map is an important tool to help us learn a new vocabulary through six steps as the following:
Draw a circle and write a new vocabulary word in the center, write the sentence in which you found the word in , and then ask yourself what do you think the word mean, then look what does the word mean in the dictionary , create your own sentence, and finally identify the new word.
As I mentioned earlier that will help us increasing our vocabulary and allow us to understand the text better, and think more effectively.

Best regards,
Zaid al thaher.

Mind Map chapter 13 ENG 75


Mind Map chapter one ENG 75


Chapter 13 summary ENG 75

Chapter 13 ENG 75

The main idea in this chapter is that everyone has to challenge himself to understand

what is the subject of the text books at different levels.

The six levels of critical thinking are knowledge, comprehension, application,

analysiz, synthesis, and evaluation, that you can use to deepen you are understanding,

by predict and creating the kind of questions you will be better to prepare the answers
for them.

Chapter one summary ENG 75

Observation is the first step in our own thinking which help us to recognize our strenghts and weaknesses.

TheObservation process are sensing which means collecting data through the sense organs, preceiving which means holding sense data in consciousness until we can categorize and interpret it, and finally, thinking which means making things of nature and events from our perceptions.

efficient observation requires us to stay awake ,give full attention, and listening in order to reward the observation skills which they are creativity, rapture, power, and wonder.