Highlighting Content for Learning

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Highlighting Content for Learning

• Improving your learning
• through effective study methods and practices
• A CBNA Assisted Study Resource
• Paul Lacroix, Coordinator

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How Highlighting Works

• When you read, you might do so without particular
  attention to important details this is called
  passive reading
• Highlighting causes you read with the intention
  of marking what is important this is called
  active reading
• Making a decision about what to mark with a
  highlighter causes you to pay attention to
  details in a critical way

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Highlighting is Efficient

• When you evaluate material for highlighting, you
  focus on its importance
• Once you decide something is important, you can
  mark it to be found again without difficulty
• At the same time you exclude other information
  from further review, cutting down the amount to
  be reviewed later

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Highlighting is Effective

• Information marked with a highlighter is easily
  found later
• When you see it for a second time you will learn
  facts better because repeated exposure to
  something strengthens your recall
• Writing notes from highlighted material
  strengthens recall even more because you use your
  own words

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Basics of Highlighting

• Highlighting is quick and easy
• Marking notes or copies of articles with a
  highlighter will reduce what you need to know to
  just the most important things.
• Light yellow is the best color because its easy
  to see and read through. 
• For obvious reasons, you should not highlight
  books you dont own

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Highlighting Method

• Read a short section through
• Go back and highlight information relevant to the
  topic of the article
• Dont highlight entire sentences unless they are
  short and very relevant
• Key words and phrases should be marked
• Generally only 20-40 percent of total reading
  material should be highlighted
• After highlighting, write out essential
  information as note cards or outlines to
  re-enforce your learning and review later for
  tests

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Example of highlighting content of Soy protein
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QUIZ

• When you read without attention to important
  details its called _________ reading .
• When you read and take notice whats important
  its called _________ reading.
• Marking with a highlighter causes you to _____
  __________ to details in a critical way
• Highlighting is efficient because it makes you
  focus on whats _____________
• Highlighting is also efficient because marked
  material can be easily _______ again when needed.
  
• Highlighting cuts down on the ________ of
  _________________ that has to be re- read.
• Highlighting is Effective because Information can
  be _________________________ later
• When you see it for a second time you learn
  better because repeated exposure to something
  strengthens your ability to_______ it.
• When highlighting mark the information thats
  relevant to the ________of the article
• Mark the key _________________ and
  ______________ in the material you are reading
• Generally only _____to _____ percent of total
  reading material should be highlighted
• After highlighting, you should write out
  _________ __________ or construct and outline to
  review later for tests.