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Review for Final Exam 213

This review covers essential elements of English 213, focusing on authorial intent, vocabulary construction, and reading strategies. It explores the three primary purposes authors write: to inform, entertain, or persuade. Key examples illustrate these purposes across various formats. Additionally, the review highlights vocabulary building techniques, including the use of prefixes and suffixes, and methods such as SQ3R for enhancing comprehension and speed reading practices. Important concepts like collocations and reading variables are also addressed to aid students' understanding of language use and reading efficiency.

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Review for Final Exam 213

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  1. Review for Final Exam213 Prof. Miguel A. Arce Ramos English 213 PUCPR

  2. Author’s Purpose • An author writes for three purposes: • To inform • To entertain • To persuade

  3. Part I. Author’s Purpose • A pamphlet explaining how an unborn child may be affected when a pregnant mother smokes. • A novel about a young girl faced with a difficult decision after getting pregnant her junior year. • The terms of service for using the social networking site, Facebook.

  4. Part I. Author’s Purpose • A letter from a pregnant girl to her boyfriend giving reasons why they should keep the baby. • The documentation and instructions for a new touch-screen tablet PC. • The story of a teacher who helps some of her troubled students get to college.

  5. Part II. Collocations • Some countries adopt a development strategy away from dependence of fossil fuel. • The max score that any strategy can obtain is 100. • His rats tended to adopt a strategy to obtain more food in the process. • List the words or phrases used before strategy. • Find two patterns before the word strategy. • List the words or phrases used after strategy. • Find two patterns after the word strategy.

  6. Part III. Building Vocabulary • What is inferring? • Inferring is the process in which we make an educated guess towards what a word that I don't understand means. • What are the two types of suffixes? Explain their differences. • derivational - changes the meaning of the word. (- able - can) • inflectional - it ony influences the function of the word. (-ing, jumping)

  7. Part III. Building Vocabulary • What are the three categories that words fall to when we analyze words them to acquire vocabulary? • prefixes • suffixes • base words • What is a prefix? • A prefix is a word part that is added to the beginning of a word changing its meaning.

  8. Part III. Building Vocabulary • What is a suffix? • A suffix is a word part that is added to the ending of a word. • Sometimes a suffix changes meaning and in other times it changes the function of the word.

  9. Part IV. SQ3R Method • What does the SQ3R method’s acronym stand for? • Survey • Question • Read • Recite • Review

  10. Part IV. SQ3R Method • When we survey,what data do we have to scan? Mention three. • We have to scan for the headings, sub-headings, titles, captions, charts, graphs, maps, bold font words. • What do we do when we question? • Turn the title, headings and sub-headings into questions.

  11. Part IV. SQ3R Method • When do we summarize using the SQ3R method? • We summarize when we recite and review our text. • For optimal comprehension, how many times should we read the text? • Four, we read as we survey briefly, then we really read in a focused manner when we read, recite and review.

  12. Part V. Speed Reading • What is a fixation? • The period of time during which the eye rests on one word or block of words. • What is a skip back? • Disruptions to the forward flow of reading are called skip-backs.

  13. Part V. Speed Reading • What are four things that we must have in order to speed read? • Speed • Practice • Overview of goal • Vocabulary • When shouldn’t we speed read? • When we need to analyze text for details and not a general understanding.

  14. Part V. Speed Reading • What are the four major variables that can influence slow reading? • intelligence • motivation • physiological traits • psychological traits

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