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Summary: This web page was created in order to educate college students on better ways to read. The site also discussed ways to obtain and remember the information better. The site gives advice like taking notes while you read and talking back to the text. The author also advises to sit up when you read, and read in area with good lighting. The list for the reading strategies is long; these are just a few examples from the text. How is it useful? The site gave a ton of strategies for reading. There was a lot of information on this site. The author explained the purpose for reading strategies. People learn in different ways, a list of strategies will help people find a strategy that works for them. Why is it useful? The site explained reading strategies very thoroughly. Everything on the site was well laid out and the information was well organized. This made finding the information quick and easy. How is it credible? At the top of the page the author noted that some of the information was from a lecture by Dr. Lee Haugen, a former reading specialist at the ISU Academic Skills Center. If the site was false, the author wouldn't have cited were they got information from. Why is it credible? The author of the site put a lot of time and effort into making this site. There is a lot of information present, I don't think someone would go through that much trouble and give false information. Citation: Dr. Kathleen King. Reading Strategies. Retrieved on November 7, 2009 from http://foremostpress.com/authors/articles/pov.html.

Listening and reading strategies Summary- Listening strategies-This website has a lot of information about listening strategies. It defines listening strategies as techniques or activities that help a reader understand what they are hearing. It also talks about Top-down strategies and Bottom-up strategies. It also mentions that metacognitive strategies help plan, monitor, and evaluate what is listened. Summary-Reading strategies- This website provides five strategies to improve the reading experience. These strategies can help read more effectively and gain confidence in reading. The strategies described are previewing, predicting, skimming, guessing from context and paraphrasing. This website also provides tips on how instructors can help teach when and how to use these important strategies. This website overall is full of tips to better listening and writing skills. How/why useful- This is a useful website because it fully explains the strategies used in listening and writing. It uses letters in bold to point out an important topic and italicizes important terms. It is fairly to quote from the information provided and best of all it provides a citation in APA style which you can easily copy and paste. How/why credible- This seems to be a professional website. It was made with the college or university teacher in mind. It provides many links to other teaching topics and provides a link bar to facilitate maneuvering throughout the website. Citation- National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC). (n.d.). The essentials of language teaching. Retrieved April 23, 2007 from http://nclrc.org/essentials.

Listening and reading strategies Summary- Listening strategies-This website has a lot of information about listening strategies. It defines listening strategies as techniques or activities that help a reader understand what they are hearing. It also talks about Top-down strategies and Bottom-up strategies. It also mentions that metacognitive strategies help plan, monitor, and evaluate what is listened. Summary-Reading strategies- This website provides five strategies to improve the reading experience. These strategies can help read more effectively and gain confidence in reading. The strategies described are previewing, predicting, skimming, guessing from context and paraphrasing. This website also provides tips on how instructors can help teach when and how to use these important strategies. This website overall is full of tips to better listening and writing skills. How/why useful- This is a useful website because it fully explains the strategies used in listening and writing. It uses letters in bold to point out an important topic and italicizes important terms. It is fairly to quote from the information provided and best of all it provides a citation in APA style which you can easily copy and paste. How/why credible- This seems to be a professional website. It was made with the college or university teacher in mind. It provides many links to other teaching topics and provides a link bar to facilitate maneuvering throughout the website. Citation- National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC). (n.d.). The essentials of language teaching. Retrieved April 23, 2007 from http://nclrc.org/essentials.

After reviewing the six simple steps for active reading, I felt that it covered all the potential issues that may arise when reading.By incorporating note taking and highlighting when possible it involves the reader more fully than just skimming through. Credibility only questionable due to no other citations other than the .org in the url.

After reading this particular piece of information, I have concluded that it has many helpful pointers in regards to editing any particular written document. It gives various examples in grammar, punctuation as well as sentence structure. It also gives basic easy instruction as to how and why certain editing techniques should be used. The reason that I feel that the credibility of this particular article is not in question is due to the facility from which it was generated. In closing I feel that anyone who has been given the dubious task of editing a particular document will find this document easy to use both from a reading aspect as well as in application

After reading this URL i was able to understand the term editing. The website also gave reference to the term proofreading as well. I believe that the information provided was very creditable because the information was published at the Colorado State University.

Audience: The audience is one of the biggest parts of the literature They determine how they feel about the piece; if they liked it, hated it, feelings like that. They also bring attention to that piece, if they liked it or hated it they will tell their friends, and that will bring people to read the paper more. Its a process, to see if you can capture the reader right away, and if you can they will stay and read it more, and if you cant then they wont read it anymore. T The website was resourceful, and showed great examples on how the reader should feel when they read the paper. This website was credible because it has all been copywrited by a big university. It is used for educational purposes.

I found this posting very interesting due to the fact that I needed a little direction in how to apply this particular tennent to the assignment that I am working on. For me it put it in simple terms that I could understand and showed me with various questions and examples how to use it in my work.

After I read this peice of work i was able to understand the concept of the rhetorical term "goal". With in the web site were multiple strategies i could use to interpret the term (goal). The website not only gave different strategies but it also broke those different strategies into a step by step format that made the reading easier and clearer to understand. Because this website is very well organized and provides detailed information i belevie that this site would be very useful. I believe that this website is creditable because it was written and published by a very well educated and highly qualified man named, Samuel G. Freedman. The information was also published at Columbia University where Sauel Freedman is a professor. therefore i think that the author of this material and where the material origanated from makes this URL very creditable. Goal: Strategies for analyzing the rhetorical situation (Spring 2005). Cornell University. Retreived November 13, 2009 from wrt.syr.edu/670/downloads/.../StrategiesforAnalyzingtheRh.doc

Summary: This site described proofreading as the final step in the writing process. Proofreading was then broken down into five steps. Each step was a link that brought you to another page, and that page contained an in depth description of the step. The author gave a good hint to finding errors. She said that reading from right to left is a good way to find spelling errors. It allows your mind to read each word individually, and think about one word at a time. How is it useful? The site was in an easy to use format. All the links were clearly labeled and the information was easy to find. The accessibility of the information helped me find what I was looking for. Each link contained definitions and explanations helping to describe proofreading. Why was it useful? The site broke down proofreading and made it a simpler concept to understand. Learning something piece by piece is easier than all at once. After using the site I now have a clearer understanding on the proper way to use proofreading. How is it credible? The site is run by the Colorado State University, meaning it's for educational purposes. A website for educational purposes cannot contain false information. Why is it credible? The site has an .edu address meaning it is used for education. If the sight is intended for education the information must be accurate and up to date. Citation: Kiefer Kate (2009). Writing Guides: Proofreading Strategies. Retrieved on November 8, 2009 from http://writi.ng.colostate.edu/guides/processes/editing/pop2b.cfm

Summary: The site I found was written by a college student. He showed the steps he takes when editing a paper and thought it might be useful to share the information. Editing is one of the most tedious jobs in the writing process. The author explained that the first step of the editing process is to take a break. He said to give it at least a day, to let your mind fully cool down from writing the paper. He then said that editing should be done sentence by sentence, saying each one aloud to make sure it sounds right. The site was in paragraph form making the information a little more time consuming to find. How is it useful? The student described the steps in a way that made it to easy to understand and remember. Editing is a long process that should be done by more than one person, and should be done in a quiet static free area. The site helped me gain a better understanding on how to do editing and get the most out of it. Why is it useful? The information is extremely easy to read and digest what the author is saying. One of the points he gave was to keep a thesaurus handy. If you're reading a paragraph and it sounds like you keep repeating the same word over and over again, you could use a thesaurus and make it sound fresh. This was a very useful tip in the editing process. How is it credible? The site has a lot of information for educational purposes. Each article has a space for feedback and the article I used had no negative feedback. This was just a college student trying to help other students. Why is it credible? If the article contained false information it would have been removed from the site by now, the posting is over three years old. It has also had over three hundred thousand views, if there was false information someone would have said something by now. Citation: Rein Daniel (2006). Tips and Strategies for Editing a Research Paper. Retrieved on November 8, 2009 from http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/95133/tips_and_strategies_for_editing

Summary: This site lists the strategies for listening. It is a clear, easy to read list. The page gave tips like maintaining eye contact, focus on key words and phrases and tune out other sounds and noises. The sites homepage also had links for more information on different strategies. How is it useful? This site provided a good source when looking for this type of information. The site was easy to read and I obtained the information quickly. If I were looking for other strategies this would be the site I would use. Why is it useful? The amount of information provided by the site was also useful. The site showed all of the different strategies for listening. The other links would also make this a useful site for teachers and students alike. How is it credible? The site has contact information to contact the author of the site. If the site was a fake, the author would not provide contact information. Why is it credible? The site provides so much information that it would be a waste of time if it contained false information. The site is a tool to help teachers and students, teaching them about different strategies and how to obtain information in different ways. The people who make these kinds of sites make them to help educate people. Citation: (1997). Welcome To Listening Strategies. Retrieved on November 7, 2009 from http://www.midtel.net/~natebg/listenin.htm

Summary: Modality is best descried as basically what is the outcome from one thing that you do. How and why is this resource useful? when reading this website I wasn't sure if it was exactly the right one to use at first but furthering my reading I found out that it is really useful in that it not only describes to you what modality is but it gives you some example on how to identify modality and what to think of do identify it. How and why is this source credible? This site is credible because it is another .edu site and it gives you everything you need to know. Citations: Colin Rose (1987) from Accelerated Learning.

I liked the no nonsense easy to read format that this was presented in.From the beginning it starts by asking the reviewer to slightly change their mindset in order to do an accurate revision. It gave various examples as to how various life situations can affect your ablility to do an honest revision, even if it means that you have to rewrite certain sections which you previously thought were ok. It pretty much gives you the dos' and don'ts of revising so in the end you will have a accurate and thorough document

On this website, it tells you that you dont only listen when someone is speaking to you. You listen to radios, Television, and even when your reading, you listen to yourself go over the words. If you re-read your work, you should be listening to how the paper sounds, or how the story sounds to you in your head, because the next reader will get the same thing from your paper. This website is very useful in the way you want to write your paper, it gives you ideas of how you should captivate the reader. You dont only listen to the story, you have to comprend what that author is trying to tell you, it gives you great points, on how to make your paper better. this website is credible it is an educational sight and has lots of refrences. www.uefap.com/listfram.htm

I am currently using this particular url for the editing strategies

Proofreading Strategies Summary This website is about proofreading strategies. Everyone has their own way of proofreading but according to this website, there are some general guidelines or strategies to proofreading with more effectiveness. Some of these strategies are Taking a break, giving yourself enough time, Reading aloud, Role palying and getting others involved. On top of these strategies there are more individual strategies you can practice that would help. Some of these strategies are Finding out your common errors, Learning how to fix those errors, and choosing specifific strategies like the ones stated earlier. How/why useful This website is useful because it is easy to understand. It also provides links that strengthen the topic of the website. The information is well organized and uses lists. How/why credible This website is credible because it is a .edu website. It provides links that are related to the topic and has a Navigation toolbar to other topics related to writing. Citation Purdue OWL. (Last edited by Allen Brizee on May 5th 2009 ). The OWL at Purdue. In' Proofreading Your Writing. Retrieved November 7, 2009, from' http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/561/01.

This particular document is a college class syllabus that was penned by a english teacher. The way that the subject matter was presented was in a very easy to read format. It had multiple examples in which the material could be used.The teacher is a fifteen year veteran of the classroom with a M.A in English as well as a B.A in literature. I found this link very informative .

Author: This website had a lot of good information on it about the author in a rhetorical situation. If you want what your writing about to act mad or sad, you need you use your words, to describe the way they feel. You need to describe to the reader what is happening in your writing. You have to be Involved in what you are writing, and have voice in your writing, so it draws the reader in, and always double check your work. This paragraph is very resourceful, it gives you examples of how you can make your paper better, and it goes to get detail in how you can capture your reader, and make your paper really good. It shows you great examples of what to do. Be captured in your reading and so will the reader. This website is credible. It is used only for educational purposes.

This document was presented in a very logical format. It gives various examples as to how to analyze a rhetorical situation. It also presents the information in a very easy to read format. That way the most use can be extracted from this document.

After reading this post,I found it rather enlightening. Initally when I thought of an audience, the dialogue was one sided. The speaker would attempt to get their point across while at the same time, keeping their audience captive with what they were saying. Allissa Quart seems to convey this message rather clearly and gives good pointers as to how to accomplish this.The article was written in May of 2008 and the authors credentials are unknown. Apparently rather fluent in journalism due to the writing prose.