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Identifying main ideas and important supporting details. First of three essential study strategies.
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| Organization:
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Arranging main ideas and supporting details in a meaningful way. Second of three essential study strategies.
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Saying or writing material to transfer it into long-term memory. Third of three essential study strategies.
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Device used to emphasize important material and show how it is organized.
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| Preface:
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Introductory section in which authors tell readers about the book.
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| Part opening:
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Textbook feature that introduces a section (part) consisting of several chapters.
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| Chapter outline:
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Textbook feature at the beginning of a chapter, listing the topics or headings in their order of appearance.
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| Chapter objective:
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Textbook feature at the beginning of a chapter, telling you what you should know or be able to do after studying the chapter.
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| Chapter introduction:
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Textbook feature at the beginning of a chapter, describing the overall purpose and major topics.
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| Graphic aid:
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Visual explanation of concepts and relationships.
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| Vocabulary aids:
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Textbook devices that highlight important terms and definitions.
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| Chapter summary:
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Textbook feature in which the author collects and condenses the most essential ideas.
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| Appendix:
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Section at the end of a book that includes supplemental material or specialized information.
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| Bibliography:
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List of the sources from which the author of the text has drawn information.
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| Index:
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Alphabetical listing of topics and names in a textbook, with page numbers, usually appearing at the end of the book.
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| Underlining and highlighting:
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Techniques for marking topics, main ideas, and definitions.
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| Annotation:
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Explanatory notes written in the margins of a textbook to help the reader organize and remember information.
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| Outlining:
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Formal way of organizing main ideas and supporting details to show relationships among them.
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| Mapping:
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Informal way of organizing main ideas and supporting details by using boxes, circles, lines, arrows, etc.
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| Summary:
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Single-paragraph condensation of all the main ideas presented in a longer passage.
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