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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 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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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

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Prediction
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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
Whatsapp
EXÁMENES
Prediction
Scanning
Skimming
Extra
Master Class

What's Text Structure?

Reading Comprehension Techniques

About the Instructor
THE BOOK
INTRO
Whatsapp
EXÁMENES
Prediction
Scanning
Skimming
Extra
Master Class

What are the most common structures of texts?

Reading Comprehension Techniques

About the Instructor
THE BOOK
INTRO
Whatsapp
EXÁMENES
Prediction
Scanning
Skimming
Extra
Master Class

Reading Comprehension Techniques

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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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References

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The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) i​s 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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