Survey applications 2
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Getting the big picture
Reading Across the Disciplines
Slideshows
These slideshows are designed to be watched on your own outside of class.
You select the appropriate show and complete the activities as you go through the slides.
To complete the activities, you will need to be prepared to take notes on separate paper.
What is surveying?
Surveying or Previewing means to familiarize yourself with the content and organization of a reading before you actually read it.
How do you survey?
Read the title. The title indicates the topic of the reading.
Check the author and source of the article. This information may provide clues about the reading’s content or focus.
Read the first paragraph or introduction. The introduction introduces you to the topic and suggests how the rest of the reading will be developed.
Read headings and subheadings. The subheadings or subtitles suggest the specific focus of the topic.
Read the first few sentences after each heading and subheading. These sentences often state the main point of the section.
How do I survey (cont)?
Read text that stands out typographically (such as bolded, italicized, or underlined text). This emphasis indicates important information or vocabulary that the author wants to stand out.
Look over graphics and pictures. If a graphic or picture is included, it often suggests the information in and around it is important.
Read the summary (if included). The summary provides a condensed view of the reading and often outlines key points.
Look for patterns of organization or how the reading is set up. These patterns will help determine what is important in the article and what information you should annotate most carefully.
Why should you survey?
It is a more effective, active way of reading.
Surveying a reading warms up your brain and prepares you to read. This can help you maintain focus.
It makes you a more active reader because you
know what to expect including patterns, difficulty level, and type of vocabulary
can estimate the time it will take to read and can plan accordingly
can assess your interest and knowledge level for the topic so you know if you need to build schema (prior knowledge).
Surveying gives you a mental outline of the reading.
A method to use when surveying: Questioning
In the “Survey” article, you learned that you do not need to do every survey step every time you read.
A useful way to survey is to create questions from all the things you want to survey. For example, if you want to survey the title, you can then make the title into a question. When you start to read the assignment, this will increase your focus because you will be looking for the answers to those questions.
Try adding questions
Step 1: Find your current English Writing 300 assigned reading. Choose the most appropriate one to help you in your English Writing 300 class.
Step 2: Review the “Survey” article.
Step 3: Survey the text you chose in STEP 1 but this time make titles and subtitles into questions.
See next slide for more steps and an example.
Adding questions continued
Step 4: Read the assigned reading, and try to answer the questions that you created. Continue to put check marks where you lost focus.
Metacognition Check: As I read, I do not yet know what savage inequalities are or why the author is calling them that. I need to keep reading to find out. Mississippi is actually the river not the state. East St. Louis seems really awful.
The questions kept me focused and I didn’t have any checkmarks.
Step 5: Did the questions help? Are you still losing focus? If you are still having trouble focusing, think about why and what strategy you want to work on next?
Do you not have enough information about the topic for it to make sense? Next class, let’s work on building your schema.
Are you worried you won’t give yourself enough time to read? Next class, let’s work on time management.
Was this a fairly easy reading and you think you might have lost focus because you got bored? Next class, let’s work on purpose, style, and speed.
For your metacognitive check-in, think about which strategy above you might want to work on next.
