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Title: Four Essential Skills for Academic Success


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  • Four Essential Skills for Academic Success

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According the ACR (AVID College Readiness), there
are four essential skills students need for
success. Discuss with the students sitting at
your table what you think these might be. As a
table, come up with at least two that you think
may be on this list. Be prepared to share.
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Essential Skill 1
  • Analyzing the prompt or academic task.
  • Students need the ability to analyze their notes
    in order to better ask the professor more
    appropriate questions as to what is expected of
    given assignments or readings.

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Essential Skill 2
  • Selective and purpose-driven reading, especially
    for expository (non-fiction) texts.
  • Students need the ability to correctly approach
    an assigned reading and initiate the appropriate
    reading strategies.

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Essential Skill 3
  • Focused note-taking, designed around a prompt or
    academic task.
  • Students need the ability to refine their
    note-taking skills to allow them to come up with
    useful, relevant and detailed questions on their
    Cornell notes.

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Essential Skill 4
  • Integrating sources into texts, using direct
    quotes, paraphrase, summary, or synthesis.
  • Students need the ability to synthesize
    information and correctly incorporate it into
    their writings. This is probably one of the most
    challenging essentials for students.

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A Writing Process
  • What is the writing process that you are taught
    in your English classes?
  • There are actually many academic writing
    processes that may differ in the way they
  • Begin with a prompt
  • Rely on sources
  • Integrate resources

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Creating a Research Log
  • For the next few weeks we will be building a
    writing process that will help you to better
    apply research and organize all of your
    resources. In order to better help you do that,
    you will need to add a Research Log tab in the
    AVID section of your binder.

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Research Log Contents
  • In-Class Notes
  • Research Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Quickwrites and journaling
  • Relevant Vocabulary List

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Homework
  • Designate an area in your binder for your
    Research Log, which can be sub-divided as noted
    in the power point. Be prepared to show it on
    Wednesday.
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