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. Whatever you write this week, add some specific details and action

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Accident Diagram

This chapter pulls together

what you learned in

Chapters 11–14 as well as

strategies from the first half

P

U T T I N G

I

T

A

L L

of the book. You’ll review

how to recognize

T

O G E T H E R

organizational strategies,

distinguish fact from

opinion, record questions

and reactions, and use

visualization to

improve retention.

Y

ou’ve learned a lot in this section about ways

to improve your “reading IQ.” Before putting all of these

strategies together in some practice passages, let’s take a

minute to review the last four chapters.

IN BRIEF

This is what you learned in this section:

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Chapter 11: Recognizing Organizational Strategies.

You learned

how to recognize common patterns that writers use to organize

ideas and information. Writers use general to specific, cause and

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R E A D B E T T E R

,

R E M E M B E R M O R E

effect, order of importance, chronology, comparison and contrast,

and other patterns of organization. You learned that most texts use

many different organizational strategies throughout though they

have one main strategy overall. You also learned to ask questions to

anticipate what’s next.

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Chapter 12: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion.

You practiced

distinguishing what is known

to be true from what is believed

to be

true. You also looked at how writers use facts and other evidence to

support their opinions.

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Chapter 13: Recording Your Questions and Reactions.

You

learned several strategies for active and critical reading. You

learned to ask questions about the ideas and information in the

text and to agree or disagree with the writer whenever he offers an

opinion. You also learned to make connections both within the text

and between the text and your own life and to evaluate the text for

its support and other issues.

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Chapter 14: Visualizing to Remember.

You practiced looking for

actions, descriptions, and details (like color, size, shape, pattern, and

so on) so that you could create a memorable picture of what you

read. You also learned to make the most of vivid comparisons and

practiced actually drawing pictures based on descriptions you read.

If any of these terms or strategies sound unfamiliar to you, STOP. Take

a few minutes to review the chapter or concept that is unclear.

P

RACTICE

1

Read the following paragraph carefully and actively. Then answer the

questions that follow.

The damage from the fire is significant. The lobby, where the

fire started, is completely charred. It’s as black as a tar pit.

None of the furniture or fixtures are salvageable. The chairs

are nothing but piles of black ashes. The lobby will have to be

completely rebuilt. The accounting office to the left of the

lobby is also badly burned. Three of the four desks are unus-

able and all of the electronic equipment but the fax machine is

ruined. Two of the walls are burned through in places. To the

right of the lobby, the Human Resources office suffered no fire

damage (except for the door) but significant smoke and water

damage. There’s a thin layer of ashy slime on the floor and a

layer of soot covers everything in the office like a blanket.