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MADISYN’s Blog Post

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One reading tool that I used from this class in another class is annotating assignments. As you can see in the picture demonstrated the annotations of assignment gave me a more clear view on how to properly do the assignment. Through this tool I was able to fully comprehend the assignment and write a paper that adequately follows the guide lines.

Universal language of all majors

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This blog shall talk about how I have used strategies and my reading, writing skills from my Communication across discipline class towards my major which is Computer Science. I have always been asked by many about what my major is and it always is succeded  by comments about how difficult and dangerous of a subject have I chosen upon. Computers and its coding have always been fascinating to me since high school because it develops your brains logic and intellect extensively. Every code I write or even think about needs a certain type of logical thinking which I believe is only possible when you train your mind to do so. From my experience, a unanimous logic does not help each time hence there is a need to develop a habit of thinking about how you think. “Metacognition” which means thinking about thinking is an extremely helpful strategy that I have learned from my   CAD   class. It has always been useful when I am struggling to lay down my code on paper before its execution. This s

Reading and Writing Skills in Calculus

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       In this Transfer Blog, I will be writing about how I have used skills that I have learned in my CAD class. CAD is a class focused around Reading and Writing, more specifically rhetoric and how it's used on our daily lives. In my Calculus class strategies like reading aloud and paraphrasing what the author is saying has helped me tremendously. Drawing lines and connecting them to how interest them has been one of the. most profound one. The way the Calculus questions are phrased can at times make it difficult to comprehend. By rephrasing what is written in the text, I am better capable of understanding what the question os truly asking.         As you can see in the image, for every sentence written I would interpret it in my own way by rephrasing what is already said on the page. Thinking aloud goes hand-in-hand with rephrasing, as thinking aloud helps me rephrase what the question says, rather than just silently rephrasing. This helps me get a deeper understanding of w
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I've used what I've learned in CAD 101 to benefit myself in my HCOM class. I've had to make speeches and the concepts I've learned have helped me in the process of making these speeches. Concepts like context and purpose were the most important. While the speeches were being made made I had to consider what knowledge the audience had on the topic and what purpose I was trying to push. Without the knowledge I obtained from CAD my speeches would've come out worse. Without considering the context of the audience's knowledge too much or too little information can be put in a speech. The purpose is also really important since if you don't have a good purpose for the speech then why should the audience listen.

coloer annotating

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            In this transfer blog I will be explaining annotating and how it helps me understand the reading better. As my second semester started, I was given several reading assignments in my service-learning class. Reading these assignments, I had remembered about the time we talked about annotation in my CAD 101 class. I reflected to first semester remembering when we had talked about annotating and how it is very helpful. So, in my service-learning class I decided to annotate my readings with color pens and would ask questions about the reading, things I wanted to discuss, and even disagreements I had. Knowing that annotating my reading assignments in different colors throughout the reading helps me more being able to go back and reflect on that I annotated on.   Along with little side notes to help me remember why I underlined that part of the reading.

Thinking aloud/elaborating to self

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Prior to taking this class, I did not speak out or participate in class. And when I did, I simply answered what I knew and that was all. But in this CAD class, we do not simply answer what we know, we elaborate on why or how we know it, and why something is that way instead of identifying that it is a certain way. Also, thinking aloud verbally or by writing notes in margins, is a skill that has helped me in other classes.  An example of this is like what is shown above. We can read a title of something we are about to read and think aloud to ourselves to try and figure it out. This not only helps us better grasp what we are learning in the reading but gets us more engaged. This has helped me in environmental science because instead of simply memorizing the different facts about sediments, I can think aloud on my the names are the way they are and see if we can decipher what it is before we read its definition. And when we do find out what the sediment is, we elaborate on why it is l

Understanding Challenging Readings

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CAD Skills February 10, 2020 In this blog I will be explaining how the Reading skills I have learned in my CAD class have helped me in my Service Learning Class. Part of my Service Learning class we need to read a lot of articles outside of class and then later have a class discussion about them. Many times after receiving my readings I find them confusing or many times they have challenging vocabulary. While reading articles like these I find using my Reading Strategies List very helpful. I identify the problem or the words I don't understand and I reread it or many times look up the word to get a better understanding of it. Many times this helps me understand what they article is saying and what a specific word I don't understand means. Another thing I do to help me understand articles is write side notes asking questions or making small comment that will later on help me in my class discussion.  My Reading Strategies List has helped me with many other challenging article