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Inferred Ideas and Connectors
Leonor Adelina Gamboa
Created on February 9, 2024
Inferred Ideas and Connevtors. Course on Reading Strategies for Law Students. Designed, edited and adapted by Leonor Adelina Gamboa, February 9, 2024.
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click to learn how to identify explicit and implied idea.
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click to learn how to make inferences
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How are they related one to each other?
What topics do you remember from the previous sessions?
In previous sessions...
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Cohesion &Coherence
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click to learn how a paragraph is organised
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click to know how to create cohesion & coherence
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Inferred Ideas
Connectors
Exam 2
Activity 2
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The main idea is related to the most relevant and important idea of a paragraph and is surrounded by secondary ideas or supporting details. Basically, a main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph or passage because it summarizes the author's main message.
Main idea
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What is said about the topic in this paragraph? Who or what is the paragraph about? What aspect or idea about who or what concerns the author? What is the main point the author is trying to make with these details? Does all or most of the material support this idea?
How can I find the Main idea?
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The main idea is related to the most relevant and important idea of a paragraph and is surrounded by secondary ideas or supporting details. Basically, a main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph or passage because it summarizes the author's main message.
Supportive Ideas
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Supportive Ideas
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How to identify the implicit ideas?
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What's the difference between them?
What does infer mean?
What does imply mean?
Inferred ideas
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Explicit,Implict & Inferred Ideas
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Check these examples:
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Do you rememeber them?
What a connector is?
Why do we use them?
Connectors
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- addition
- contrast
- reason, purpose and result
Connectors, connectives, linkers, linking words?
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Signposting in texts
About the Instructor
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INTRO
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Prediction
Scanning
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Master Class
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la función de las conjunciones y conectores es hacer que los enunciados de un texto fluyan de forma efectiva gracias a las relaciones dentro y entre oraciones o ideas (relationships within and between sentences or ideas).
Connectors and Conjunctions
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click on the link to learn them https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-transitional-words-and-phrases.html
Transition Words
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Text Pattern: Example
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Practice (1)
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Practice (2)
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What is the difference between the connectors in your native language and in English?
Universidad Univer Milenium
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How text structure help us in Reading?
What is "text structure"?
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Text Organization
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"if you understand the organization, you can monitor your learning"
About the Instructor
THE BOOK
INTRO
EXÁMENES
Prediction
Scanning
Skimming
Extra
Master Class
What's Text Structure?
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About the Instructor
THE BOOK
INTRO
EXÁMENES
Prediction
Scanning
Skimming
Extra
Master Class
What are the most common structures of texts?
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About the Instructor
THE BOOK
INTRO
EXÁMENES
Prediction
Scanning
Skimming
Extra
Master Class
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Cambridge Coching. (2024). TOEFL Reading Inferece Questions. https://blog.cambridgecoaching.com/toefl-reading-inference-questions
esl-lounge.com. (2024). TOEFL Grammar-Connectors. https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/toefl/toefl-058-grammar-connectors.php
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. (n.d.) Juror Questionnaire. http://okcca.net/ouji-cr/1-10/
Zebra Education Inc. (2024). TOEFL Reading Question Type - Inference Question. https://www.bestmytest.com/blog/toefl/toefl-reading-question-type-inference-question
Verbling. (2024). Master the Inference Questions on the TOEFL iBT Reading. https://www.verbling.com/articles/post/master-the-inference-questions-on-the-toefl-ibt-reading-561d51f4f069d8fe38cebba3
Law School Admission Council, Inc. (2024). Reading Comprehension Sample Questions. https://www.lsac.org/lsat/taking-lsat/test-format/reading-comprehension/reading-comprehension-sample-questions
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The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a standardized test administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) for prospective law school candidates. It is designed to assess reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, and logical reasoning. The test is an integral part of the law school admission process in the United States, Canada (common law programs only), the University of Melbourne, Australia and a growing number of other countries.
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