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