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Map & Graphing Skills / Reading & Writing Skills / Research skills /
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Map & Graphing Skills

  • Reading maps
  • Latitude & Longitude
  • Climate & Environmental maps
  • Topographical maps
  • Analyzing historical maps (HE, 301)
  • Comparing thematic maps (HE, 411)
  • Interpreting diagrams (HE, 535)
  • Analyzing political cartoons (HE, 679)
  • Interpreting statistics (HE, 921)
  • Interpreting circle graphs (HE, 973)
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Reading & Writing skills

  • Outlining (HE, 507)
  • Summarizing
  • Quoting materials verbatim
  • Plagiarism
  • Citing sources
  • Compare/Contrast (Venn Diagram)
  • Supporting with examples
  • Paraphrasing information (HE, 593)
  • Selecting and using research sources (HE, 653)
  • Writing a research report (HE, 741)
  • Conducting interviews (HE, 893)
  • Writing in various styles (HE, 947)
  • Using the writing process (CTT, 66)
  • Answering essay questions (CTT, 174)
  • Organizing your writing (CTT, 252)
  • Revising your writing (CTT, 920)
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Research skills

  • Notetaking (HE, 79)
  • Using computerized card catalog (CTT, 418)
  • Identifying relevant facts (CTT, 504)
  • Using a CD-Rom (CTT, 682)
  • Documenting sources (CTT, 734)
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Organizational skills

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Critical thinking skills

  • Classifying (HE, 57)
  • Making comparisons (HE, 111)
  • Relevant and irrelevant information (HE, 165)
  • Identifying Cause and effect (HE, 183)
  • Determining reliability of sources (HE, 201)
  • Fact and Opinion (HE, 229)
  • Making inferences (HE, 277)
  • Making generalizations (HE, 323)
  • Hypothesizing (HE, 351)
  • Identifying Evidence (HE, 385)
  • Recognizing stereotypes (HE, 435)
  • Analyzing primary and secondary sources (HE, 455)
  • Interpreting points of view (HE, 765)
  • Detecting bias (HE, 569)
  • Analyzing literature as historical evidence (CTT, 234)
  • Analyzing fine art (CTT, 368)
  • Recognizing propaganda (CTT, 714)
  • Analyzing photographs (CTT, 784)
  • Identifying unstated assumptions (HE, 625)
  • Identifying an argument (HE, 765)
  • Evaluating ambiguous statements (HE, 799)
  • Recognizing fallacies in a line of reasoning (HE, 833)
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Technology skills

  • Using search engines
  • Boolean searches
  • Evaluating sources
  • Citing electronic sources
  • Saving bookmarks to disk
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Seminar & social skills

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