Tuesday, April 21, 2009
crcb ch.11 summary
CRCB CH. 11 READING, UNDERSTANDING AND CREATING VISUAL AIDS
Visual aids help your presentation make things happen. Visual aids help you reach your objectives by providing emphasis to whatever is being said. Clear pictures multiply the audience's level of understanding of the material presented, and they should be used to reinforce your message, clarify points, and create excitement.Visual aids involve your audience and require a change from one activity to another: from hearing to seeing. When you use visual aids, their use tends to encourage gestures and movement on your part. This extra movement reinforces the control that you, the speaker, need over the presentation. The use of visual aids, then, are mutually beneficial to the audience and you.Visual aids add impact and interest to a presentation. They enable you to appeal to more than one sense at the same time, thereby increasing the audience's understanding and retention level. With pictures, the concepts or ideas you present are no longer simply words but words plus images. The chart below cites the effectiveness of visual aids on audience retention.
People tend to eye-minded, and the impacts visual aids bring to a presentation are, indeed, significant. The studies, below, reveal interesting statistics that support these findings, Visuals add an important dimension to a presentation, and you, the speaker, must capitalize on this dimension. It is critical that you prepare visual aids that reinforce your major points, stimulate your audience, and work well in the physical setting of your presentation.Visual aids and audio-visuals include a wide variety of communication products, including flip charts, overhead transparencies, slides, audio-slide shows, and video tapes. Demonstrating a process or simply passing around a sample of some equipment or model are also effective way to clarify messages visually. If visual aids are poorly selected or inadequately done, they will distract from what you are saying. The tips listed below will help you in the selection and preparation of visual aids.
Visual aids help your presentation make things happen. Visual aids help you reach your objectives by providing emphasis to whatever is being said. Clear pictures multiply the audience's level of understanding of the material presented, and they should be used to reinforce your message, clarify points, and create excitement.Visual aids involve your audience and require a change from one activity to another: from hearing to seeing. When you use visual aids, their use tends to encourage gestures and movement on your part. This extra movement reinforces the control that you, the speaker, need over the presentation. The use of visual aids, then, are mutually beneficial to the audience and you.Visual aids add impact and interest to a presentation. They enable you to appeal to more than one sense at the same time, thereby increasing the audience's understanding and retention level. With pictures, the concepts or ideas you present are no longer simply words but words plus images. The chart below cites the effectiveness of visual aids on audience retention.
People tend to eye-minded, and the impacts visual aids bring to a presentation are, indeed, significant. The studies, below, reveal interesting statistics that support these findings, Visuals add an important dimension to a presentation, and you, the speaker, must capitalize on this dimension. It is critical that you prepare visual aids that reinforce your major points, stimulate your audience, and work well in the physical setting of your presentation.Visual aids and audio-visuals include a wide variety of communication products, including flip charts, overhead transparencies, slides, audio-slide shows, and video tapes. Demonstrating a process or simply passing around a sample of some equipment or model are also effective way to clarify messages visually. If visual aids are poorly selected or inadequately done, they will distract from what you are saying. The tips listed below will help you in the selection and preparation of visual aids.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Chapter 8 CRCB
Chapter 8 Critical Reading for College and Beyond
Organization (or reorganization) is a continuous process„it goes on simultaneously with other activities, such as narrowing your topic, forming your thesis statement, and conducting your research. However, formal organization generally involves two components: determining a method of organization for the essay, and drawing up an outline which applies your ideas to that method.
Textbook authors usually organize information using certain classic methods or patterns. Being able to recognize organizational methods will help you understand the ideas in your textbooks and how they are connected to each other, because they will fit into logical patterns you are already familiar with. It will also help you to remember what you have read, because you are not memorizing facts in isolation, but relating them to each other to form patterns that hold and organize them in your memory. A useful way to dentify an author's metod of organization is to look for the organizationaal word clues (OWCs) that indicate which patterns he or she is using. It is also important to assess an author's overall method of organization. An author will frequently use more than one method from paragraph to paragraph, but have one overall method for each textbook chapter
Organization (or reorganization) is a continuous process„it goes on simultaneously with other activities, such as narrowing your topic, forming your thesis statement, and conducting your research. However, formal organization generally involves two components: determining a method of organization for the essay, and drawing up an outline which applies your ideas to that method.
Textbook authors usually organize information using certain classic methods or patterns. Being able to recognize organizational methods will help you understand the ideas in your textbooks and how they are connected to each other, because they will fit into logical patterns you are already familiar with. It will also help you to remember what you have read, because you are not memorizing facts in isolation, but relating them to each other to form patterns that hold and organize them in your memory. A useful way to dentify an author's metod of organization is to look for the organizationaal word clues (OWCs) that indicate which patterns he or she is using. It is also important to assess an author's overall method of organization. An author will frequently use more than one method from paragraph to paragraph, but have one overall method for each textbook chapter
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
chapter 4 crcb what is efficient reading
CHAPTER 4 CRCB
What is Efficient Reading?
In today's fast-paced information age, it is simply not good enough for anyone to be an OK reader. It is more important than ever to possess efficient reading skills.
Not just with paper-based reading, but with the Internet, Web pages, and e-mails, we are deluged with a greater quantity of information than ever before, and we need to process it quickly. With efficient skills, we can absorb more material in less time, increasing our productivity and effectiveness in all aspects of our lives.
Efficient readers not only read faster, but they also read with better comprehension. They read text in much the same way that most of us learn to identify objects in the world around us.
For example, when efficient readers come across the word "blue,” they don't repeat the word "blue" to themselves, nor do they actively think about the meaning. Instead, they visualize and understand the color much in the same way people do when they look at a blue sky. They don’t say "blue sky" then think about what that means, but instead they absorb the meaning immediately and effortlessly.
Reading is an enjoyable experience for efficient readers. It not only makes their life easier, but can actually be fun, as well. Students need to understand this, since it can motivate them to learn the techniques that will improve their knowledge and productivity.
What is Efficient Reading?
In today's fast-paced information age, it is simply not good enough for anyone to be an OK reader. It is more important than ever to possess efficient reading skills.
Not just with paper-based reading, but with the Internet, Web pages, and e-mails, we are deluged with a greater quantity of information than ever before, and we need to process it quickly. With efficient skills, we can absorb more material in less time, increasing our productivity and effectiveness in all aspects of our lives.
Efficient readers not only read faster, but they also read with better comprehension. They read text in much the same way that most of us learn to identify objects in the world around us.
For example, when efficient readers come across the word "blue,” they don't repeat the word "blue" to themselves, nor do they actively think about the meaning. Instead, they visualize and understand the color much in the same way people do when they look at a blue sky. They don’t say "blue sky" then think about what that means, but instead they absorb the meaning immediately and effortlessly.
Reading is an enjoyable experience for efficient readers. It not only makes their life easier, but can actually be fun, as well. Students need to understand this, since it can motivate them to learn the techniques that will improve their knowledge and productivity.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
chapter 8 viewpoints (critical reading for college and beyond)
CHAPTER 8
VIEWPOINTS
Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that provides a vocabulary for thinking about and acting upon movement and gesture, position from which something is observed or considered, a rationalized mental attitude.
For example abortion is one of the most persistently controversial issues in American culture and politics today. Since the 1973 national legalization of abortion, competing groups have fought to either restrict or increase access to the procedure, leading to heated debates among political activists, religious organizations, state legislatures, and judges.
This conflict is perhaps reflective of the nation’s ambivalence over abortion. While it is often depicted as a two-sided debate, the abortion controversy is actually quite multifaceted, involving complex speculation on biology, ethics, and constitutional rights. Those who identify themselves as prolife, for example, generally contend that abortion is wrong because it kills human life, which they believe begins at conception. However, some pro-lifers grant that abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest, or when the pregnancy threatens the life or health of the mother. Those who identify themselves as pro-choice often maintain that abortion must remain legal because a woman should have the right to control her body and her destiny. But some pro-choicers also believe that there should be certain restrictions on teen access to abortion and on abortions occurring after the first trimester of pregnancy. This mixture of opinions is probably why Gallup polls consistently show that 50 to 60 percent of Americans favor abortion “only under certain circumstances.”
I believe to each is own, I also believe that abortion shouldn’t be used as a form of birth control.
VIEWPOINTS
Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that provides a vocabulary for thinking about and acting upon movement and gesture, position from which something is observed or considered, a rationalized mental attitude.
For example abortion is one of the most persistently controversial issues in American culture and politics today. Since the 1973 national legalization of abortion, competing groups have fought to either restrict or increase access to the procedure, leading to heated debates among political activists, religious organizations, state legislatures, and judges.
This conflict is perhaps reflective of the nation’s ambivalence over abortion. While it is often depicted as a two-sided debate, the abortion controversy is actually quite multifaceted, involving complex speculation on biology, ethics, and constitutional rights. Those who identify themselves as prolife, for example, generally contend that abortion is wrong because it kills human life, which they believe begins at conception. However, some pro-lifers grant that abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest, or when the pregnancy threatens the life or health of the mother. Those who identify themselves as pro-choice often maintain that abortion must remain legal because a woman should have the right to control her body and her destiny. But some pro-choicers also believe that there should be certain restrictions on teen access to abortion and on abortions occurring after the first trimester of pregnancy. This mixture of opinions is probably why Gallup polls consistently show that 50 to 60 percent of Americans favor abortion “only under certain circumstances.”
I believe to each is own, I also believe that abortion shouldn’t be used as a form of birth control.
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