| March 28, 2010
Name of the selected paper: PLAN Instruction
The source: http://www.ci.txstate.edu/Dev.ed/PLAN/PLAN_teach http://www.ci.txstate.edu/dev.ed/PLAN/PLAN_teach_frames.html
Type of the text: Book
Enhancing Reading Skills: PLAN
Summary: PLAN, a new approach of the study reading to enhance retaining knowledge, is consists of four steps as: Preview, Locate, Add, and Note. Preview is a preceding step of a reading that is being performed by checking its main parts (i.e., title, subtitles, highlighted words, charts, tables, pictures, introduction and summary) in order to create a map. LOCATE is a second step that requires you to note on the map for both something you know with a checkmark (√) to confirm and something you don't know with a question mark (?). ADD is a third step of the reading that means you note something either you know or not know and helps to define some sections that is being needed to be re-read until you are comfortable for both confirming and noting. NOTE, the final step, indicates how well can recreate the map by yourself without looking at your notes. As a result of NOTE, you can compare your map to the former map in order to isolate or determine the weak points of your reading and repeat the activity of note taking until you come up with a fairly accurate one.
E.S.P: PLAN is a study-reading strategy that builds upon current knowledge of predicting, engaging prior knowledge, metacognition, and remembering research. M.O.S: Metacognition is consisted of meta (behind) and cogni (change), which shows that fact behind any change of human behaviours.
E.S.P: Click on the sample Semantic map to see what this might look.
M.O.S: The semantic definition of a word is called as the denotation or dictionary meaning
E.S.P: Next, LOCATE on this map those concepts that you think you know and those that you don't.
M.O.S: The epicentre is the location of an earthquake on the surface.
E.S.P: If your purpose for reading was to reconstruct the text on an essay, then try to create a summary of the entire text in your own words.
M.O.S: An essay is a significant writing activity to reflect some thoughts in short.
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| February 29, 2010
Name of the selected paper: Good News: Life's no longer short (not sure about nasty or brutish)
The source: The Globe and Mail
Type of the text: News article
Summary: An analysis of the life expectancy shows that a boy, born in 2085, will live longer, 93.8 years, a girl for 96.1 years than a boy whereas born in 1850, could anticipate living for 38.3 years, a girl for 40.5 years. Comparison of the life expectancy between the born females/males in 2010 and the born male/female in 2085 shows a time-advance of the human life ranging from 5.7 yrs (male) and 3.9 yrs (female). The best scenario of the longevity indicates an expectation of many centurions between tens of thousands (Canada) to hundreds of thousands (U.S) in the North America by 2085. A Canadian boy and girl, born in 2085, will live longer for years from 96.5 (male) to 98.2 (female), but the gender gap will slightly decrease from 2.2 years, born in 1850, to 1.7 years, born in 2085. Of 1850’s African countries, if any person dies at 70, he/she will have died young as a result of an epochal change for humanity. The best answer for the life expectancy shows no reason for falling death rates. Though some people (melancholy) may consider longevity as something to be cursed, but they probably forget most people would find meaning and the solace in it. Acute shortage longevity of workers due to an increase in life expectancy will cause people to defy mortality since longevity might probably cause wrenching in the life of social and economy. As a result of longevity and implanted healthy brains, Freedom 75 will be in while Freedom 55 will be out.
Crunch ▸ verb: Slang To perform operations on; manipulate or process (numerical or mathematical data).
Example sentences from the paper:
The Social Security analysts who crunch actuarial numbers don't make predictions.
Own sentence:
Any kind of results based upon provided statistics for life expectancy may be biased since the statistics can be used in order to crunch any kind of data for shaping of any model in different ways.
Concede: ▸ verb: admit, make a clean breast of
Example sentenced from the paper:
They concede that life expectancy for U.S. males born 75 years from now could be as low as 81.3 years, a mere 5.7 years longer than for male babies born in 2010, as low as 84.7 years for females, a mere 3.9 years longer than for female babies born in 2010.
Own sentence:
Most people might concede side effects of life expectancy changes if an acute shortage of workers emerges.
humble: ▸ adjective: marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful ("A humble apology")
Example sentences from the paper: And although humble in comparison with best-scenario advances in life expectancy, the smaller gains still represent stunning change.
Own sentence:
A humble professional is known as a real power of a good company.
Stunning: ▸ adjective: causing, capable of causing, or liable to cause astonishment, bewilderment, or a loss of consciousness or strength: a stunning blow.
Example sentences from the paper: And although humble in comparison with best-scenario advances in life expectancy, the smaller gains still represent stunning change.
Own sentence:
An increase in life expectancy may cause a stunning emotion in elder people.
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March 8, 2010
Name of the selected paper: Despite advances, science of forecasting a tsunami is inexact
The source: Washington Post, 2010-03-05
Type of the text: News article Forecasting efforts of a Tsunami risk
Summary: The warnings of a Tsunami risk, caused by an earthquake in Chile on February 27, were timely reported, e.g., a warning for Nome city - Alaska, 24 hours later after the earthquake. Damage caused by the Tsunami was not severe unlike to previous ones. Forecasting for the Tsunami warning was given for the worst-case scenario; therefore, the observed damage of the Tsunami was less than expected. However, Tsunami forecasting, a new area of science, did not work well. The maximum value of Chile Tsunami waves caused three people to drown and more missing people, was measured as 7.7 foot by P.T.W.C. Since observed wavelength was actually 3 feet less than expected in Hawaii, other warnings through the Pacific were lifted. One example of errant Tsunami warning, 9 feet, erred on the side of evacuation over the coastal area in Japan. In general, a Tsunami’s wave can be small in the Pacific Ocean, but it can be magnified by shallow bays and harbours. |
Definition and Part of Speech Err on the side of something ▸ idiom: to choose an action that may be too extreme. If we're not sure what's needed, let's err on the side of being too prepared. Usage notes: usually used in the form err on the side of caution: I decided to err on the side of caution and spend less than my full allowance.
E.S.P: Jenifer Rhoades, tsunami program coordinator for the National Weather Service, said officials would rather err on the side of warning people about the worst-case scenario than play down the risk.
M.O.S: Since the forecasting of a Tsunami hazard is a premature science, Tsunami risk is being conducted to err on the side of warning decision makers of being to prepared for the worst-case scenario.
Definition and Part of Speech Dodge a bullet: ▸ idiom: to have a narrow escape; to avoid injury or disaster Harold dodged a bullet. He got a "D" on the final exam.
E.S.P: We dodged a bullet this time, but since tsunami science is not exact, we erred on the side of caution. M.O.S: In order to dodge a bullet of a Tsunami risk, the warnings of Tsunami damage is being maximized to err on the side of decision makers to prepare the best for the possible hazard.
Definition and Part of Speech Buoys: ▸ noun: bright-coloured; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards.
E.S.P: If nothing else, this was a dramatic test of the Pacific tsunami warning system, which uses buoys sprinkled across the ocean to detect tsunamis in real time.
M.O.S: The measurement of Tsunami waves is being monitored based on the use of buoys that is a special instrument for measuring wavelength changes.
Definition and Part of Speech Spared: ▸ verb (used without object): to refrain from inflicting injury or punishment; exercise lenience or mercy.
E.S.P: Even though Hawaii was spared, other areas might remain in danger, Nathan Becker, an oceanographer at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu, said Saturday night.
M.O.S: Everybody is happy to see that most of the cities were spared from the worse expectations of the Tsunami hazard.
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March 15, 2010
Name of the selected paper: The reading formula that helped win World War II
The source: Reading Today, October/November 2002
Type of the text: Educational News
Reading Leads to Victory during the Second World War
Summary: Army personnel, during War II, needed some specific courses to enhance their skills in many ways. Therefore, some courses, dense and condensed, were planned to increase their skills of reading to more easily understand technical information and their retention. Robinson, who is member of psychology department, Ohio University, was selected to train military personnel through a new approach of effective reading. He first examined presently used reading methods, and recognized former methods were failure for enhancing skills of both comprehension and retention. His research on former methods of reading methods resulted in a new reading formula, SQ3R that is still used today. In the formula, Survey is simply an overview of the material that might cause raising some Questions. A careful Reading seems to be a feedback of Questions while Recite is a way of checking availability (of left over or residual within mind) caused by former steps. Review, the final step, means to check (entire former steps) to finalize the studied materials. SQ3R, tested and proved during the World War II, has been found to be supportive as an active reading strategy that is being initiated two actions of a quick inspection (Surveying and Questioning) prior to double ways of digesting materials such as reading and recycling. Finally, reviewing is the last way of checking rate of final comprehension. In result, Robinson’s SQ3R method has been used since ever due to the fact it increased the learning skills of veterans and other adults. As a part of Veterans Day, American soldiers, Francis Robinson, and other educators deserve to be appreciated all together since the victim during War II is more associated to the victory of enhanced knowledge than used weapons. |
Haphazard ▸ adjective: characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness; determined by or dependent on chance; aimless.
E.S.P: Robinson conducted studies of the student’s reading skills and found that they approached their reading using unsystematic, haphazard methods that failed to lead to good comprehension.
M.O.S: Many people who are victims of haphazard teaching approaches will find their enhancement as well as their enthusiasm for learning new subjects reduced.
Endure: ▸ Verb: to continue to exist; last: These words will endure as long as people live who love freedom.
E.S.P: After reviewing research and approaches to effective study skills, Robinson came up with a formula for reading and study that has endured for 60 years.
M.O.S: Companies should expect to endure economic recession until the end of 2010.
Pursuit: ▸ noun: the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture ("The culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit")
E.S.P: It has helped hundreds of thousands of veterans using the GI Bill and innumerable other adults succeed in their pursuit of high school, college, and other academic or technical degrees.
M.O.S: Career success is a result of the long-term pursuit of working hard
Mighty: ▸ adjective: having or showing great strength or force or intensity ("Struck a mighty blow")
E.S.P: The thousands of other reading educators who contributed to victory through the power of a force mightier than any weapon – the power of literacy!
M.O.S: The more people are mightier the more peace is being endured. |
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