College Success Skills - Ch. 4

According to the text, effective alternatives to "speed reading" include:

All of the answer choices​: Becoming a flexible reader ​Pseudo-skimming ​Reading widely ​Reading wisely

Advantages of developing a larger vocabulary include:

All of the answer choices​: Increasing the range of materials that you can understand Gaining more options for expressing yourself precisely when you write or speak ​Increasing your enjoyment of reading

One suggestion for reviewing a text is to recite the points that you want to remember. Reciting can include:

All of the answer choices​: Making a formal speech about what you've read Having an informal conversation with friends about what you've read Standing in front of a mirror and talking about the main points of a text

Information literacy is a skill that includes:

All of the answer choices​: ​Finding information from appropriate sources ​Evaluating information ​Organizing information ​Using information to achieve a purpose

The strategies of Muscle Reading include steps to take:

All the answer choices​​: ​Before you read ​While you read ​After you read

According to the text, online materials have replaced printed books as the most reliable sources of information.

False

According to the text, the only ways to effectively mark up a book are underlining and highlighting.​

False

According to the text, there are no benefits to reading an entire chapter at least once before you highlight or underline.

False

The Power Process: "Notice your pictures and let them go" states that mental pictures are useless.​

False

You must complete all the steps of Muscle Reading to get the most out of any reading assignment.​

False

"Subvocalizing" refers to

Mentally "hearing" the words in a text as you read them

The key words in a passage of text are often:

Nouns and verbs

The part of a word with its core meaning is the:

Root

The suggested strategies for previewing a reading assignment do not include:

Scanning pages for passages that look interesting to you and immediately slowing down to read them in detail

You can sometimes understand more of a difficult text by skipping ahead to the next chapter or section.​

True

The steps in Phase 1 of Muscle Reading take place:

Before you read

To make an outline of what you're reading:

Do both a and b: Turn the largest headings in the text into major points in the outline ​Turn smaller headings in the text into minor points in the outline

To get the most benefit from marking a book, underline at least 25 percent of the text.​

False

The Corson technique includes:

​All of the answer choices: Asking yourself: What exactly do I not understand? ​Locating the first sentence, paragraph, or page in a reading assignment that confuses you Spending 15 minutes to overcome your confusion ​Keeping a record of what you do to overcome your confusion

When using context to infer the meaning of a word, you can look for:

​All of the answer choices: Definitions of key terms in the text Lists that include the word as one item in a series Antonyms of the word ​Synonyms of the word